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Jimmy Ellis vs. Jimmy Ellis
Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 11:06
by zojo
90's guy who beat Tony Tubbs and lost to Foreman and Briggs
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer
70's guy who beat George Chuvalo, Patterson and Quarry. But lost to Ali, Frazier, and Rubin "Hurrican" Carter.
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer
Both beat a pair of Quarrys (90's beat Bobby and 70's beat Jerry)
Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 11:19
by dempseyfire
One was a world class fighter, the other a clubfighter.
Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 11:39
by BoxBuzz
I always wondered if George Foreman elected to fight this guy for the ambiguity of it all. Confusing folks who read the record as an inside joke. I think the 90's Ellis loss to Foreman is the highlight of his career.
...Ok maybe the win over Tubbs is actually the highlight....
Posted: 24 Mar 2008, 21:47
by zojo
BoxBuzz wrote:I always wondered if George Foreman elected to fight this guy for the ambiguity of it all. Confusing folks who read the record as an inside joke. I think the 90's Ellis loss to Foreman is the highlight of his career.
...Ok maybe the win over Tubbs is actually the highlight....
I remember watching Roy Firestone on ESPN asking some boxing journalist about this fight. Roy actually thought that George was fighting the origional Jimmy Ellis from the '70s.
Posted: 25 Mar 2008, 09:16
by Ambling Alp
That is pretty funny. He clearly didn't do his homework that time. Actually Roy Firestone was a decent journalist; whatever happened to him anyway?
Posted: 25 Mar 2008, 18:20
by Goodnight, Irene
I've got this fight. It's pretty entertaining, actually. Foreman has Ellis on queer street by the second round, but is just so lazy about it all. He refuses to finish him off, & Richard Steele was at his incompetent best
Posted: 25 Mar 2008, 21:54
by zojo
Wasn't the '90s version managed by Howie Long?