13 Facts About Elmo Henderson

Elmo Henderson was born on April 8,1935 and is an American former boxer from Texas.

However, people who attended the exhibition say Elmo Henderson did not defeat Ali, and newspaper reports after the exhibition made no mention of Ali losing.

Elmo Henderson went to prison in Huntsville, Texas in 1961 after stealing a television from a truck.

In 1964, Elmo Henderson won the Texas state boxing title by defeating Benny Bowser, a boxer from Austin, Texas, in the second round of the competition.

In 1967 Elmo Henderson had a series of fights; in August of that year the California Athletic Commission asked Elmo Henderson to take an examination of his brain so doctors could determine if he had received brain damage.

Elmo Henderson did not take the examination and instead went to New Zealand to match against Bobby Dunlop; he defeated Dunlop in the New Zealand match, and then Dunlop defeated Elmo Henderson in a rematch in Sydney, Australia three months later.

Elmo Henderson used to train at Archie Moore's gym on the corner of Sage and Gateway in Vallejo, California.

Elmo Henderson had fought Ernie Shavers on October 29,1971, in Stateline, Nevada and was knocked out in the fourth round, Shavers was the hardest puncher that Elmo Henderson had ever encountered during his career, at that time Ernie Shavers had never lost and during the year 1971 alone Shavers had 17 professional fights and won them all and most by knockouts.

Elmo Henderson claimed he defeated Muhammad Ali in an exhibition match during the "Muhammad Ali Boxing Show" in San Antonio, Texas on October 24,1972.

Elmo Henderson never achieved widespread fame in the boxing world.

Elmo Henderson served as a cheerleader in George Foreman's entourage in the Rumble in the Jungle event in Zaire.

Elmo Henderson filed a $1 million lawsuit against Mailer and Playboy.

In 2003 Elmo Henderson was a homeless man in Austin, Texas.