Young Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Ellis Photograph, c. 1959

From collection Muhammad Ali Center Permanent Collection

Young Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Ellis Photograph, c. 1959

A black and white photograph of Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay, Jr.) and Jimmy Ellis posed in fighting stance. Ali and Ellis trained together as amateur boxers in Louisville, Kentucky, and as professionals after 1960. 

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