Innapropiate boxing nicknames

But isn't that because he won a Bronze medal in the Olympics?

 

You're thinking of Deontay Wilder. Joe Louis was called the Brown Bomber.

 

Henry "Sugar Poo" Buchanan
Bobby "Boogaloo" Watts
Dewayne "Mr Stop Running" Beamon

 

Weren’t he also the Black Mamba?

Anyway, talking about Assassins, what’s the deal with Larry Holmes calling himself the Easton Assassin? I’m sure he was at one point called The Black Cloud (probably due to his ever cheerful sunny disposition) but the Easton Assassin? Was he a part time Hitman for hire in between bouts, back in his local hometown?

 

It was quite racist back then too TBQFH.

Gypsy king (despite the fact that he exalts himself as such) is kinda inappropriate in this modern day of PC no?

 

Not sure about now but when I was living in the UK in the late 1980s, the derogatory term for gypsies was “Pikey” or “gypo”. I think they tend to be called travelers now though some like Fury obviously has no problems calling himself a gypsy.

 

Thank you for the clarification

 

Grow up man, this is a rough 'n' tough boxing forum.

 

I just can't get over the nickname being... a fart.

 

If you are hard of hearing then don't be too confident that it was silent, moral of the story, make sure the battery in your hearing aid is working.

 

Nigel Benn as the ‘Dark Destroyer’ had its own racial overtones. And not subtle ones.

But then you get Charlie ‘White Lightning‘ Brown … which at least made him easy to distinguish from fellow lightweight at the time Charlie “Choo Choo’ Brown. (Those two should have fought to settle naming rights, loser has to change his name to Chuck Green or something.)

 

They tried to make the fight but the promoter was paying Peanuts.

 

Michael"Dyanmite"Dokes. Solid, very good fighter at his best. But not a lot of power.

 

Badou Jack had the name "ripper" written on his gown when he had his last fight, Badou Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888.