Jimmy Ellis

To me Jimmy Ellis carries the weight of boxing's greatest era. A Louisville man like his famous townsman Muhammad Ali, he claimed the WBA world heavyweight title, defended it against Floyd Patterson, and finally fell to Joe Frazier. Standing 185 centimeters, he traded blows with the legends of his day, and that fact alone stirs me. His was a career of both glory and hard defeat, the full arc of a fighter's life. He passed in 2014, but the memory of those fists that helped define a golden age has not faded. I tip my hat to him.

Name (English)

Jimmy Ellis

Name (Japanese)

ジミー・エリス

Reading

じみー・えりす

Born

February 24, 1940 – May 6, 2014

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

boxer

High school

Central High School

Awards & achievements

• WBA World Heavyweight Champion
• 1967 The Ring magazine Progress of the Year

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Ellis%20(boxer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q950934

Tags

• Kentucky
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.