Boxers with non-threatening nicknames

Beyonce Windmiller- Wilder

 

The Punching Postman.. Tony Thornton

 

The boxing binman, Rendall Munroe

 

I don’t think it was retroactively applied but the Orchid Man was also known as “Gorgeous” Georges Carpentier during his career (of course there was also Gorgeous George the wrestler some years later).

I don’t know if I’d be wanting to take that moniker into the ring with me - certainly when Georges visited Dempsey’s Health and Beauty Clinic, old Jack gave “Gorgeous” a very rough and none too flattering “facial”.

 

I once knew a so called gangster who went by the street name of “Kitten.” I told him that name was not suited to a man of his standing. He agreed and changed it to …”Hamster.”

There’s just no helping some people!

 

LOL! Diminutive fella, was he? Imagine asking to speak to the BOSS and being told Hamster can’t see you right now he’s busy running his wheel. Wheely? Haha.

 

Haha! Wheely, very good.
What can I say…he was 5’11 and built like Chris Eubank Sr in his boxing days…which made his street names all the more hilarious. When I brought his latest nickname up with a pal (I didn’t bother speaking to Hamster(guffaw!) about it again) I was told that the furry animal street names made these guys out to be unthreatening to the jury whenever they appeared in court!

 

Aah, an apparent method to the madness!

Better than the threat implied by the names Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, the famed Piranha brothers - who were “loosely” based on Reggie and Ronnie Kray.