Frazier was small for a heavyweight, weighing just 205 pounds when he won the title by stopping Jimmy Ellis in the fifth round of their 1970 fight at Madison Square Garden.

Former heavyweight boxing champion Jimmy Ellis, who trained with fellow Louisville fighter Muhammad Ali and squared off against some of his era's best fighters, has died in his hometown. He was 74.

Promotional advertisement for the Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier heavyweight fight on October 1, 1975, printed in green and red ink with small portraits of Ali and Frazier, both in red. On the left side ...