Boxers (please explain the meaning in languages other than English) whose last names mean something

If ring names counts, Yuri Arbachakov once had "Yuri Ebihara" for his ring name,but changed it because the word "ebi" sounds very similar to the Russian word of fucc.

 

Well his given name is Jose, but Pipino Cuevas’s nickname (which is how he was always referred to as) translates to cucumber.

Maybe because when opponents got hit with that big left hook, they were in a pickle.

 

Tommy Loughran. Loughra/Lougra (just the n or maybe even the h missing) is a homosexual slur in Greek.

 

Carlos Monzon. Carlos means free man while Monzon means monsoon in Spanish.

 

Celestino Caballero = Heavenly Knight/Gentleman

 

So his name is just "Tommy Gay" then?

 

Indeed

 

The wrestler Gorilla Monsoon had a much better name.

And of course, the Gorilla had a run-in with Muhammad Ali.

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His name fits his personality,lunatic,free monsoon outside the ring.

 

Actually, it means lime, but Spanish speakers (latin american anyway) think that a lime is a lemon, so even ones that are fully bilingual will translate "limon" as "lemon". It's a weird quirk. Go to a Mexican restaurant, ask for "lemon", you'll get a sliced lime 100% of the time.