Fighters Who Don't Live Up To Their Nicknames

Information is useless without knowing which information to pay attention to.

 

Come off it about Mike his name suited him plenty.

 

Gerald "El Gallo Negro" Washington. He was black, but certainly not a rooster.

 

Fitting

The Brown Bomber Louis
The Baby Faced Assassin Jimmy McLarnin
Smok’n’ Joe Frazier
The Real Deal Holyfield
Two Ton Galento
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom

On The Fence

Carl The Truth Williams. Depends on what “truth” he was trying to tell - if it was “I’ve got a weak chin”, then he’s good to go. If it was “I was okay to continue” after Tyson decked him, then he’s Carl The Lie Williams.

Not so fitting

Tony TNT Tubbs (unless it stood for Tummy Needs Tucking)
Lights Out Toney (Fridge Light’s On so much better)
The Italian Stallion Rocky Balboa - need I say more?

 

Barrera's nickname of Baby Faced Assassin seemed strange. Marco never looked much younger than 35. Although, now he's passed 35 by some stretch, he still looks ... 35.

Etienne Clifford was known as the Black Rhino which seemed a bit strange when Tyson knocked him out in the first. But as he was laid out on the floor, he got a new moniker, the Black Lino. Very mean but it did fit the moment.

 

Sounds like Barrera might’ve procured his nickname back to the future style.

As far as I know Ali basically gave Liston his nickname The Bear, a more flattering, truncated version of Ali’s orig.The Big Ugly Bear.

Then there was The Rabbit for Patterson, The Washer Woman for Chuvalo, The Mummy for Foreman and The Gorilla for Frazier. Ali had his own little nasty streak going there for a while.

 

Razor Ruddock was more of a blunt intrusment.

 

Somebody did not see his 70s porno!

 

LOL. Yes, that’s the “need I say more?” part. Heard of it but never seen it TBH but wasn’t it retroactively titled after the Rocky movies?

I have seen another 70s “romp” encoded: De Do Da though. Encoded in so far as being the first two letters of each word in the three word title. Sounds like a crossword clue, right? “The hint for 69 Down is……..”

 

James "tits out" Toney

 

AKA Walker Smith.

 

The ones that fit perfectly:

1)Ezzard Charles, The Cincinnati Cobra. Mesmerizing movement. Almost like a snake twisting before the strike.

2) Archie Moore, The Old Mongoose. Outstanding reflexes, complex defense perplexing his opponents. Like a mongoose darting around in a duel with a snake. Needless to say, his trilogy with Charles has an outright cinematic tone: The Cincinnati Cobra vs The Old Mongoose.

3) Smokin' Joe Frazier. Nuff said.

The one that somehow made it past the drawing board:

1) Big Daddy Bowe. Seriously, why?

 

Eddie Machen had that monicker in 1966.

 

'Irish' Leroy Haley - always made me chuckle. Didn't appear to be your traditional Irishman.