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Dylan Hernandez

Dylan Hernandez: Bill Caplan has always been boxing's warm-hearted friend in a world of pirates

LOS ANGELES — George Foreman sounded as if he was trying to sell me one of his Lean Mean Grilling Machines.

I could picture Foreman's smile as the former heavyweight boxing champion and hamburger appliance pitchman dropped Don King-isms as he talked — and talked and talked — about his longtime publicist and friend, Bill Caplan.

"He made us all famous," Foreman said over the phone.

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