Jimmy Ellis

James Albert "Jimmy" Ellis (February 24, 1940 – May 6, 2014) was an American heavyweight boxer. He is considered to be among the best boxers of all time. He held the WBA World Heavyweight Championship from 1968 to 1970.

Jimmy Ellis in 1968.

Ellis was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Christian family. He and wife Mary had six children (two sons and four daughters).

Ellis died from problems caused by dementia on May 6, 2014 at a hospital in Louisville, aged 74.^[1] He had lived with chronic traumatic encephalopathy for decades before he died. He had such a severe case of it that he had still thought his wife, who died in 2006, was still alive.^[2]