Muhammad Ali (who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) is associated with which sport?
Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician) Pennsylvania, who in 1878 was the financial agent in the United States of the Russian government. Herman Heaton Clay, a descendant of African-American slaves, named his son Cassius Marcellus Clay—who was born nine years after the death of the emancipationist in tribute to him. This Cassius Clay gave his own son the same name, Cassius M. Clay, Jr., a heavyweight champion boxer who gained international renown and changed his name to Muhammad Ali after his conversion to Islam. Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician) Cassius Marcellus Clay (; October 19, 1810 – July 22, 1903), nicknamed the "Lion of White Hall", was
Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. Cassius Marcellus Clay (November 11, 1912 – February 8, 1990) was an American painter and musician. He was the father of three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali and Rahman Ali, and the grandfather of Laila Ali. He married Odessa Lee O'Grady in the 1930s and worked as a painter and a musician. He was described as "a handsome, mercurial, noisy, combative failed dreamer" and a "hard-drinking, skirt-chasing dandy of a daddy". His son Muhammad Ali described him as "the fanciest dancer in Louisville". Clay was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, the son of Herman H. Clay