George Chuvalo (Profile)
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 8, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
He is 61 years old, but beneath the short, steel-grey hair reminiscent of barbed wire he could pass for 51. The bloated face and body of times past have yielded to diet and exercise. George Chuvalo, at an inch over six feet, has lost 40 lb.