As per our current Database, Jimmy Ellis is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Jimmy Ellis is 84 years, 2 months and 4 days old. Jimmy Ellis will celebrate 85rd birthday on a Monday 24th of February 2025. Below we countdown to Jimmy Ellis upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Jimmy Ellis |
Occupation | Boxer |
Age | 84 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
Born | February 24, 1940 (Kentucky) |
Birthday | February 24 |
Town/City | Kentucky |
Nationality | Kentucky |
Jimmy Ellis’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Jimmy Ellis was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Held the WBA World Heavyweight Championship from 1968 to 1970, and fought in one of the greatest heavyweight eras of all time.
He won 59 of 66 amateur bouts and was a Golden Gloves champion.
He was diagnosed with a case of dementia so severe that he believed his dead wife was still alive.
He married Mary Etta in 1958.
One of his most famous fights was against Muhammed Ali in the Houston Astrodome on July 26, 1971.