Highlights of the former WBA Heavyweight world champion.
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Jimmy Ellis – Was an American professional boxer who competed from 1961 to 1975. He won the vacant WBA heavyweight title in 1968 by defeating Jerry Quarry, making one successful title defense in the same year against Floyd Patterson, before losing to Joe Frazier in 1970. Ellis won 59 of 66 amateur bouts and was a Golden Gloves champion. He boxed Ali twice as an amateur, with Ali winning the first bout and Ellis winning the second.
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Good boxer with a dangerous right hand. Former WBA Heavyweight champion. Donations – https://www.patreon.com/haNZAgod / hanzagod@mail.com on PayPal.
sparring partner of muhammad ali
Song name ?
Ellis was slick
Definently a great!!!!
Wow he's actually pretty good!
Ellis was a good fighter but to me he had two problems: He lacked the chin to go with his punch and he tapered off in the later rounds which gave his opponents the opportunity to close the gap.
Impressive that he was a middleweight contender in the early 60s and made it up to become a solid heavyweight. However his short reign also signifies a problem that boxing would succumb to, sanctioning bodies. As WBA champion Ellis never got the credit he would've gotten had he remained a top contender he received negative attention as being a fill in for Ali's suspended title after winning an 8 man elimination tournament. Interestingly I have read in one of my books that he is said to have knocked out Muhammad Ali in sparring and beat him as an amateur, not a bad claim to fame.
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i am getting an amazing education education from these videos. thanks for all of these tributes…and damn, Ellis was badass.
Amazing MUSIC my Man! #ClassicVideo (as usual by you, respectfully).
For a former middleweight, Ellis beat top heavyweights such as Bonavena, Quarry, Chuvalo, Leotis Martin, Patterson (I know, Floyd got robbed). Had he gained the weight through weight training rather than just stuffing himself, he would have been much stronger and done even better. Manager Angelo Dundee was dead set against weight training.
Thank you!!! I did not know that Ellis was this good because all the media shows you is him losing to Frazier. Keep it up I love it all!
Slick and great….very Afro-centric
RIP He was the best Grandfather in the world!
Ezzard Charles vs Jimmy will be interesting.
Defeated a lot of ranked heavyweights in a row on the way to his title. From a man who once fought Mims, Benton, Henry Hank and Carter to winning a vacant belt during the golden age of the heavyweights is a great achievement.
Lacked power
Jimmy Ellis is very under rated thanks for sharing,Keith
With him also being born and raised in the same place as ‘The Greatest’ it somehow feels like he also adopted the style of the Louisville Lip. He was a good heavyweight in probably the near greatest era of heavyweights
Eillis would give any cruiser weight in history a tough fight.
Prime Eillis vs cruiser weight usyk would be a great fight. In the fantasy land.
Had heart too. No idea how he got up from the first Frazier knockdown.
The thing about Jimmy he never bad mouthed anybody who didn’t give him his due..Nobody boxed Muhammad Ali more rounds since they were boys to men and Jimmy was 185…And he fought in the greatest era of Heavyweights ever he was last one pick for the 8 man tournament for the WBA title and last one out A.K.A World Champion..And as a man One of the best God has ever created. Classy,Calm and Cool was Jimmy rule..
He had quick hands and knew how to get low.
love jimmy's style
Forgotten warrior of the 60s & 70s. Very underrated fighter.
Great !
Very impressive to come up from a middleweight .This is the size that Heavyweights were back then.Had he fought today he would have been bigger so that he could compete as a Heavyweight. Ellis had a deceptive sneaky powerful right hand.Quarry said he fought cautiously because Ellis was deceptively quick with his right hand and it had power behind it.
Jimmy was a VERY VERY under rated fighter, he KNEW HOW to sneak right REAL smooth. Notice when Oscar tried to trap him on the ropes he floored him with a TRICK SOUTHPAW left cross, ( not a left hook!) TOO slick!
Ellis won the vacated title and indeed goes down in history as champ
MR. James (Jimmy) Ellis was once considered a man long in Muhammad Ali's shadow, he deserves more recognition just like the rest of the forgotten warriors within the heavyweight division.
If he even dreams he beat me,he better wake up and apologize…Ali quote before he fought Jimmy Ellis
He was an overgrown middleweight!Anybody ever wonder what he would have done at middle or lightheavyweight?
You can see the Ali influence. Ali Greg Page and Jimmy Ellis Louisville’s 3 heavy weight champions
Jimmy was one beautiful boxer, endowed with some great boxing skills, and defeated some of the best (except Floyd Patterson) boxers of the day. Fighters like Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonavena, George Chuvalo, Leotis Martin, to name just a few of the top fighters of the 60's that Ellis beat. His valiant fight against Frazier was one exciting fight. At the time of this fight Joe Frazier was at the tip top of his game! Unbeatable at this point, but Jimmy put up a great fight, did his best, and went out like the Champ he was! RIP Jimmy Ellis.
He beat Quarry, Bonavena and Patterson in the late 60’s if it weren’t for Ali or Frazier, Ellis had a high chance of becoming the prize fighter of those years.
R.I.P. to are Louisville legends Muhammad Ali Jimmy Ellis and Greg Page we miss y'all 🙏🏾🥊
I enjoyed watching this, I never got to meet him, he died when I was still young, he’s my great grandfather and I would’ve loved to meet him.