I'm not wishing to be pedantic ,could you clarify do you mean boxers of Irish birth who grew up in the US? Or of Irish parentage but born in the US? It's just that we always seem to get in to wrangles, whether so and so qualifies on these type of threads .
1. Gene Tunney 2. Jimmy McLarnin 3. Tommy Loughran 4. Mickey Walker 5. Billy Conn 6. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien 7. Jim Corbett 8. John L. Sullivan 9. Terry McGovern 10. Billy Graham
McLarnin is Canadian otherwise he’d be in it. Walker Tunney McGovern Loughran Conn Feels like the top 5 (debatable order). I’d have to think on the rest.
Anyone who was either born in Ireland and immigrated to the US or someone whose parents/grandparents/great grandparents etc. came from Ireland.
So is the story that Muhammad Ali’s great grandfather emigrated to the US from Ireland in the 1860s and settled in Kentucky, true or not?
Nice list. I have no quibbles. Others that might deserve consideration are Braddock, McCarty, Rinty Monaghan (sic?). There must be others but I can't think right now of any worthy of Top 10 consideration.