[justshutupandtakeit]

Too bad he rejected the name he held, Cassius Clay, that of a great fighter against slavery and adopted the name of many of the greatest slavers.

[codebreaker]

Shiver me timbers!

[Redbob]

And here I thought my grandfather was kidding when he referred to Clay as a "sun-burned Irishman."

[RichInOC]

"Michael who? Ahhhh ammmm the Lord of the Dance."

[sinclair]

Muhammed [Ali] has Irish roots

Does that mean he dyes his red hair black?

[TomB]

At a previous Olympics, an Irishman suprised everyone by winning a gold medal (I'm too lazy to do the research as to which one). In an interview afterwards he was asked why the Irish don't win more boxing gold medals. He looked around the empty ring and said "Well normally we're used to fighting in a place with more barstools".

[JesusIsLord]

Is there any doubt that Abe Grady kissed the blarney stone and the gift of the gab rubbed off on all his descendents.

[fish hawk]

Yeah and Mike Tyson is part Eskimo ( from the root word Eskimantic= eaters of raw flesh)

[Big Bunyip]

You never heard of black irish?

[Red Jones]

wow, it's not surprising though.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Sure'n I be the greatest, laddy...

[tallhappy]

Staff at the Clare Heritage Centre at Corofin have discovered that the three-times world boxing champion's great grandfather was Abe Grady who was born in the town Ennis in the 1840s.

That would be more than just a great grandfather. It'd be great great I'd think.

Ali probably knows this.

What this shows is another example of millions that Americans are not Europeans, Americans are not Africans, Americans are not Asians and on and on and on.

Americans are Americans.

[RichInOC]

"Rumble, boyo, rumble...ahhhhhhggggghhhhh!"