lol Muhammad Ali was so real that his slave name (Cassius Clay) actually came from a white dude that spent his whole life fighting slavery. Dude was such a hardcore abolitionist that the slave owners in his area kept hiring assassins after him. The first assassin shot Clay. Clay grabbed a knife, chased the assassin down while he had a bullet in his chest, stabbed the assassin, cut off his nose and ear, and threw him over a wall. He was an ambassador for Lincoln, but he felt Lincoln didn't abolish slavery quick enough, so he quit his job so that he could pester Lincoln about the issue.
History is crazy.