Local plumber meets Muhammad Ali

by Michelle Arnold

WHAS11.com

Posted on January 23, 2014 at 6:37 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- Call it the luck of the Irish. Plumber Tony Kelly has only been in America for 14 months, but he's already met his hero, Muhammad Ali.

I was really star struck, I didn't know what to say, he's just a legend, Kelly said.

How did he do it? He knocked and the door was answered.

This past Friday, Kelly went to work on a home in Prospect.

It was an everyday job. The guys were telling me that Ali lived next door and I didn't really believe them at the start, he said.

Kelly thought there was no way he was working next door to Ali.

As the day went on, they kept mentioning it, so I decided I'd chance my luck and go over and see if I could get a picture or an autograph or something, he said.

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Local plumber meets Muhammad Ali