Thread: What are VERY some strange names of boxers?

I'll start it off with Oscar Fucks


divisionlight middleweight
nationality Argentina
aliasLa Mula
residence Posadas, Argentina

(KO 0)-4 (KO 2) rounds boxed 28 : KO% 0

Silence Mabuza

Trenton Titsworth and he lived up to his name, by kissing and touching up Jesse Vargas.

Originally Posted by ICB

Trenton Titsworth and he lived up to his name, by kissing and touching up Jesse Vargas.

haha. that was an instant classic for me, the moment I saw it. especially listening to the announcers.

Butch Dykes
sex male
birth date 1961-07-21
division light middleweight
nationality United States
alias Wilson Lee Dykes
residence Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
0-lost 18 (KO 16)-ugh!

Nkosana Mgxaji who fought @ 130 - I always recall him from the old Title Bout boxing board game.

Shannon Briggs, the heavyweight. (Shannon is a girls name in the UK)

Tye Fields (Why would you call a kid Tye?)

I believe Junior Jones's first name was Ivy, his other nickname was "Poison"-- Ivy Jones. How cool is that?

What about Courage Tshabalala What a flop

Tocker Pudwill....huh

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Originally Posted by holmcall

I'll start it off with Oscar Fucks


divisionlight middleweight
nationality Argentina
aliasLa Mula
residence Posadas, Argentina

(KO 0)-4 (KO 2) rounds boxed 28 : KO% 0

Can you imagine if he had ever made air and the announcers had to dance around that one

How about these guys for some wonderful names

Bonyongo Destroyer
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=33987&cat=boxer

Who lost to

Jukebox Timebomb
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=176131&cat=boxer

both lost to
Proud Kilimanjaro (Once meant to fight Lennox Lewis but failed the blood test as he tested positive for HIV)
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=22684&cat=boxer

Who also beat

Walter Ringo Starr
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=34489&cat=boxer

101 Greatest Boxing Nicknames according to the Ring

"Bazooka" (Rafael Limon and, later, Ike Quartey
Raging Bull (Jake LaMotta)
Randall "Tex" Cobb
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
Renaldo "Mister" Snipes
Riddick "Big Daddy" Bowe
Ronald "Winky" Wright
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Smokin' Joe (Joe Frazier)
Sugar Ray (Ray Robinson and, later, Ray Leonard)
Sweet Pea (Pernell Whitaker)
Terrible (Tim Witherspoon)
The Acorn (Earnie Shavers)
The Ambling Alp (Primo Carnera)
The Atomic Bull (Oliver McCall)
The Baby-Faced Assassin (Marco Antonio Barrera)
The Bayonne Bleeder (Chuck Wepner)
The Black Assassin (Stanley Ketchel)
The Boogieman (Jesse Ferguson)
The Boston Tar Baby (Sam Langford)
The Boxing Banker (Calvin Brock)
The Brockton Blockbuster (Rocky Marciano)
The Brown Bomber (Joe Louis)
The Cincinnati Flash (Ezzard Charles)
The Cinderella Man (James Braddock)
The Count of Monte Fisto (Apollo Creed)
The Easton Assassin (Larry Holmes)
The Flushing Flash (Kevin Kelley)
The Golden Boy (Oscar de la Hoya)
The Greatest (Muhammad Ali)
The Hawk (Aaron Pryor)
The Hitman (Tommy Hearns and, later, Ricky Hatton)
The Italian Stallion (Rocky Balboa)
The Living Death (Lew Jenkins)
The Louisville Lip (Muhammad Ali)
The Magic Man (Antonio Tarver)
The Manassa Mauler (Jack Dempsey)
The Mongoose (Archie Moore)
The Motor City Cobra (Tommy Hearns)
The Nigerian Nightmare" (Samuel Peter)
The President (Ike Ibeabuchi)
The Quiet Man (John Ruiz)
The Rock (Hasim Rahman)
The Sweet Swatter from Sweetwater, Texas (Lew Jenkins)
The Truth (Carl Williams)
The Undertaker (Harry Wills)
The Wild Bull of the Pampas (Luis Firpo)
Tommy "The Duke" Morrison
TNT (Tony Tubbs and Tony Tucker)
Two Ton Tony (Tony Galento)
Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Pazienza

continued...............


Andrew "Six Heads" Lewis
Arturo "Thunder" Gatti
"Baby" Joe Mesi
Beast from the East (Nikolay Valuev)
Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins
"Big" George Foreman
Bobby "No Dice" Chacon
Butterbean (Eric Esch)
Darnell "The Ding-a-Ling Man" Wilson
Davarryl "Touch of Sleep" Williamson
Donovan "Razor" Ruddock
El Terrible (Erik Morales)
Evander "Real Deal" Holyfield
Everett "Bigfoot" Martin
Explosive Thin Man (Alexis Arguello)
"Ferocious" Fernando Vargas
"Gentleman" Jim Corbett
Hands of Stone (Roberto Duran)
Hector "Macho" Camacho
Homicide Hank (Henry Armstrong)
Iran "The Blade" Barkley
"Irish" Micky Ward
"Iron" Mike Tyson
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
James "Buster" Douglas
James "Hard Rock" Green
James "Lights Out" Toney
James "Quick" Tillis
Jeff "Left Hook" Lacy
Jerry "Wimpy" Halstead
Jersey Joe Walcott (Arnold Cream)
John "The Beast" Mugabi
Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles
Juan "The Hispanic Causing Panic" Lazcano
Laila "She Be Stinging" Ali
Lance "Mount" Whitaker
Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler
"Merciless" Ray Mercer
Michael "Dynamite" Dokes
Michael "Second to" Nunn
Mike "The Body Snatcher" McCallum
Mike "The Bounty" Hunter
Mitch "Blood" Green
No Mas (Roberto Duran)
Nonpareil (Jack Dempsey)
O'Neil "Give 'em Hell" Bell
Owen "What the Heck" Beck
Pac-Man (Manny Pacquaio)
"Prince" Naseem Hamed

Peter “Desperate” Dunn was desperate to get over 100 losses and has now achieved that. Karl “Plug” Taylor out of Birmingham has a plug ugly 16-113 (KO 31)-6 mark. Another Brit, Ojay “Me, Myself & I” Abrahams, is at 20-76-4. Benji “Bad News” Singleton (who was good news for his opponents when he stepped up) chips in with a 26 (KO 1 - 107. And then there was “The Prince of Second Avenue,” Jerry Powers, out of Florida.