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GEORGE FOREMAN III MAKES PRO DEBUT IN ‘FAMILY TRADITION’ PROFESSIONAL BOXING CARD SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009 AT COUSHATTA CASINO RESORT IN KINDER, LA.

Tickets, priced at $20, $40 and $65, are available through Ticketmaster.com

If the adage stating the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree is, indeed, true, then young George Foreman III is in for a long and illustrious career as a professional boxer.

However, before securing a spot in the Hall of Fame, Foreman needs to accomplish a few things. And the first goal is to get a win in his pro debut.

Foreman, who goes by his long-time nickname of “Monk,” has his first fight Saturday, June 6, at the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, La.

The four-round heavyweight bout is the special attraction on the 10-bout professional boxing card dubbed, appropriately enough, “Family Tradition.”

Foreman has been preparing for this day, for this fight for more than one and one-half years. It was then, during 2007, that he first began to train to be a boxer. Prior to that Foreman graduated from Rice University in his hometown of Houston.

But considering his size—he’s 6-foot-5-inches and weighs a solid 240 pounds—family ties and lifetime exposure to boxing, it seems almost natural Foreman would try his hand, or fists, at the sport.

And so he will, against Clyde Weaver, June 6, 2009.

The 10-bout card, which includes two women’s bouts, is in The Pavilion and starts at 7:30 p.m. (Central) with doors opening at 6:30.

See the info at http://monkfight.blogspot.com