You guys remember Jimmy Ellis? No, not that one

Ellis managed to get his face in the way of every punch Mijangos threw in that one.

Thought Ellis gave a gutty effort against Foreman, but was badly over-matched.

Ellis did score a really quick knockout of Tony Tubbs though. I remember some writer mentioning that Tubbs should have worn swimming trunks for that fight. Looked like a pretty good shot to the temple to me. Caught him cold.

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Good to see you back Russ, lad.

 

I think he actually played pro football for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders briefly before turning to boxing. I remember the Foreman fight. He showed a ton of heart against Big George but not much else.

 

Tough club fighter who took his shot against a few of the big boys and besides Tubbs, who was well past it, found himself wanting.

Can’t fault a guy for trying. Takes minerals to get in the ring with accomplished heavyweights, especially Big George.

 

for a long time-I didnt see the fight on TV-I thought the Jimmy Ellis on Foreman's record was the former WBA world Heavyweight champion who had perhaps joined Foreman, Larry Holmes, Roberto Duran, Macho Camacho, Thomas Hearns, Alexis Arguello, Sugar Ray Leonard and (later in the decade) Julio Cesar Chavez sr, Juan Laporte, Mike Weaver, Billy Costello and James Smith in the 90s dinosaur caravan. And when I got the former WBA champion's autograph, I even asked him about fighting Foreman! (he signed my Kayo boxing card, probably thinking I was a certified crazy lol!)

I wonder if he has a Wikipedia article but if, as previously posted, he played in the NFL, even for just one game, he probably does as an NFL player.

Now I want to see Foreman-Ellis on You Tube! LOL

 

Yeah. Only time I ever saw him was against foreman

 

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Well I just watched it lol

 

Disgraceful stoppage!

 

Ellis is a brave guy!

 

That feel when everyone in the ring knows the guy has to make it to the third round or nobody wins. Foreman was a titan against an ancient Greek peasant in there.

Round 2: ~20 seconds left, The ref steps in, stops the fight, then lets George continue punching Ellis for a sec, which he kind of doesn't seem to want to do. Then the timekeeper rings the bell with 15 seconds left. Nobody protested or nobody even mentioned the horrible fake stoppage or the timekeeping. Seemed like Foreman knew what time it was, too. Nothing wrong with a TKO3 win on your record and probably a little sweetness for the consideration. You don't even have to tell the mark, Jimmy K. Ellis could have fought as hard as he wanted.

Ellis is an extremely useful asset in boxing business, a dude you can send in there to assuredly lose and his way better opponent could also surely pick a round for him to lose in so some nice bets hit. Reminds me of how Peter McNeeley would get paid. I don't know if he knew the time, though--but his trainers/management definitely did. Sell local, dive big.

 

I forgot about those shenanigans in Round 2 until I just re-watched it.

 

Watch around 45 seconds left in round 2 as Ellis is semi-consciously grabbing for Foreman as George looks down on him. Foreman had him dead to rights and just stared at him and let him grab from a distance and timing that I could have personally intercepted with a punch (lol). Look at how Ellis holds and how the ref is so pathetically trying to break up a rope clinch which is usually a big no-no.

The whole fight Foreman was showing his apathy as if he knew, throwing lazy punches, looking away dismissively after Ellis lands, he looks bored in there (the whole sequence from 1:05 left on is crazy, George is just letting him stay in there). Remember when he said he would have unloaded that extra right on himself as he fell in the Ali fight, but Ali didn't? Maybe this was his moment of that. Or he knew something else.

 

There was a Middleweight / Light Heavyweight from Sheffield in the UK called Jimmy Ellis in the early to mid 80's. I think he was an area Champion.

 

So everyone was involved I guess?

I love Richard Steele a great man f you meet him.

But when I saw that and then I remembered his comments after Chavez-Taylor I that if a boxer is hurt he stops it...i dont know I had a weird feeling...

I prefer to remember the Richard Steele I met and knew in the 1990s, so Im not gonna think about that too much.