Boxers with the same name...

Londonirish
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Boxers with the same name...

Post by Londonirish »

Number 3 and number 4 in Super Wealterweight division both have the same, same birthday so I'm guessing they must be Twins but why would you call your kids the same, didn't Gourge Forman do the same? Is they any others?

Jermal Chairo
http://boxrec.com/boxer/471634

Jermal Chairo
http://boxrec.com/boxer/433135
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Post by ElJefe »

One is called Jermell, the other is called Jermall.
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ElJefe wrote:One is called Jermell, the other is called Jermall.

:oops: didn't see that :lol:


Still very similar tho must of been an Awkward one in the same house....
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I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
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Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
stevedocs brother had that problem
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Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
Yeah true an example was Michael Ayres (I think?) had to change so picked Gomez.
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Post by stevedoc »

Londonirish wrote:
ElJefe wrote:One is called Jermell, the other is called Jermall.

:oops: didn't see that :lol:


Still very similar tho must of been an Awkward one in the same house....
My brother pat Doherty fought John Doherty for the British super feather weight title and johns first name was pat as well but he used john so there wasn't 2 pat Doherty's.
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littlepug wrote:
Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
stevedocs brother had that problem
:TU: Beat me to it
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bripez wrote:
Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
Yeah true an example was Michael Ayres (I think?) had to change so picked Gomez.
Gomez was born Michael Armstrong.

Few others recently have been Liam Walsh and Patrick Walsh at Super Feather, DP Carr who fought at the York Hall on Friday is only fighting under that name because Dan Carr's at his weight, they were actually scheduled to fight each other in October and Boy Jones had to change his from Ben Jones due to the Crawley super featherweight, who has now moved down to featherweight.
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Post by davie »

Fighter used to just put a place name in from of thier name, You had Lockport Jimmy Duffy, Oakland Jimmy Duffy, Westside Jimmy Duffy & Aberdeen (Portland) Jimmy Duffy all fighting in the same era and in the same weight classes

Although, I'm not sure if this was a case of fighters with the same name adopting a nick name to differentiate between them or guys with different names pinching the name of a well known boxer to make himself more recognisable (Oakland's real name was Hyman Gold)

There were about 200 Jack Dempseys for instance, there were "young" Jack Dempseys, Barbados Jack Dempseys, Black Jack Dempseys, Jack "pseudenym" Dempsey :lol: , Italian, Indian, Californian and canadian Jack Dempseys.
The were all probably named after the heavy weight Manassa Mauler, but the funny thing is, he was named after the middleweight from the 1880/90s Nonpariel Jack Dempsey, who ironically ended up not being 'without parrallel' when it came to fighters with his own name
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stevedoc wrote:
littlepug wrote:
Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
stevedocs brother had that problem
:TU: Beat me to it
Ha ha knew you'd be onto this before long !
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bripez wrote:
Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
Yeah true an example was Michael Ayres (I think?) had to change so picked Gomez.
I loved shaka a good no nonsense fighter,I met him at a gym in Streatham when he was on the way up and I was about 18/19 a nice guy as well
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There was 2 Takashi Miura's at the same weight:
The good one http://boxrec.com/boxer/202465
And the not so good one http://boxrec.com/boxer/180772

Combined they went 1-1-1 against Yoshimitsu Yashiro...

A lot of Jonathan Gonzalez's heck you never know who you might debut against... http://boxrec.com/bout/1584333
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Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
Yeah this is true DP Carr (actual name Dan Carr) and Dan Carr were both on the same bill Friday at York Hall
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Post by handsofstone »

Wasnt Jersey Joe Walcott named after another fighter
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handsofstone wrote:Wasnt Jersey Joe Walcott named after another fighter
Barbados Joe Walcott, "Jersey" wasn't actually born Joe Walcott, his birth namey was Arnold Raymond Cream
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Only a single z to separate Tomas Adamek http://boxrec.com/boxer/346326 from Tomasz Adamek http://boxrec.com/boxer/14883 .
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henry cooper had a least one namesake
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Post by tijuana1 »

My ex stablemate was called Daniel James and I remember him been told to change it by the bbbc due to another Daniel James. My friend went with Jesse James as in the outlaw. Leeds boxer
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Post by Boxerbeetle »

ste1983 wrote:
Rexob wrote:I think professionals in the UK have to have an original name or not the same name as any active fighter?
Yeah this is true DP Carr (actual name Dan Carr) and Dan Carr were both on the same bill Friday at York Hall
:TU: I didn't even notice that!
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Post by Larrylefthook »

There must be 2 Danny Garcia's as last weekend I saw a few interviews with the one who beat Robert Guerrero and he kept talking about how were going to see "the best Danny Garcia" on fight night, twas very strange indeed.
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I bought a DVD of the wrong Corrie Sanders once.
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Larrylefthook wrote:There must be 2 Danny Garcia's as last weekend I saw a few interviews with the one who beat Robert Guerrero and he kept talking about how were going to see "the best Danny Garcia" on fight night, twas very strange indeed.
There's also been about 18 Danny Lopez's too.

And about a dozen Muhammad Ali's (although not all spelt the same).

But there's only ever been one Anthony Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr Small :lol:
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Post by Dixonian »

PredatorHayds wrote:I bought a DVD of the wrong Corrie Sanders once.
:lol: Corey 'T-Rex' Sanders - that must have been a disappointment.
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Post by reggaereggae »

stevedoc wrote:
Londonirish wrote:
ElJefe wrote:One is called Jermell, the other is called Jermall.

:oops: didn't see that :lol:


Still very similar tho must of been an Awkward one in the same house....
My brother pat Doherty fought John Doherty for the British super feather weight title and johns first name was pat as well but he used john so there wasn't 2 pat Doherty's.
Your brother was Pat Doherty? Wow... I remember him... Exciting fighter. Was part of that weird super feather British title jinx in the 80s where everyone seemed to lose the title in an upset in their first defence...
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