Boxers with brilliant names

[littlepug]

Whilst having a pretty cool name himself Zimbabwean heavy Proud Kilimanjaro also fought a guy called Walter Ringo Star ! He also fought a dude called Jukebox Timebomb Gotta love those crazy Africans !

[Kalan]

Sugar Ray Robinson... That wasn't his real name, but the greatest Boxing name ever... It fit Walker Smith to a T.

Jack Dempsey... His name was Harry, but that wouldn't have been as great.

Tom Sharkey... That was a great name for a fighter. I can't explain why I think so. Jack Sharkey sucked.

Jack Johnson... It had a certain authority and ring to it.

Roberto Duran is a name I always liked.

Mickey Walker I thought was a great name for a fighter.

Max Baer was a good one.

George Foreman is a really terrific name.

Billy Conn was a really great name for a clever boxer.

Jack Dillon is a name I always liked... Sounded tough like the outlaw John Dillinger.

Jack Blackburn is a name I like... I don't know why Jack is such a great name for a fighter... Jack Hood is another.

Ingemar Johansson had possibilities... It was a glamorous name.

Les Darcy is a name I liked.

Luther McCarty wasn't a bad name.

Jess Willard was a great name... I Hate to say it because he was such a total shitt fighter.

Gentleman Jim Corbett was a great name

John L. Sullivan was a terrific name for a legendary Heavyweight.

[oogiebe]

Shep Proudfoot.

[oogiebe]

Suzuki Utagawa (sp?)

[oogiebe]

Spider Webb (real one)

[oogiebe]

Yama Bahama (Middleweight)

[milpool]

Cecil Coffee was a hot name that was full of beans.

[Flump]

Cecil Coffee was a hot name that was full of beans.

I liked that in an instant, if I'm not too late to comment on it.

Tap Tap Makhatini

[BitPlayer]

Tyson Fury and Deontey Wilder are up there.

Eric Crumble (for the most wrong and most right reasons)

My favourite on Boxrec is Professor Snowball

[sweetviolenturge]

For some reason, I always liked Bunny Johnson & Young Sanford.

[HyacinthusTurnipseed]

KO Mars
Honey Mellody
Christian Hammer
Rich Power

And of course Hyacinthus Turnipseed.

[BitPlayer]

http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/135976
A classic name

http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/162213
http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/323025

[oogiebe]

http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/135976
A classic name

http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/162213
http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/323025

LMFAO!!!! Sounds like WWE royal rumble!!!

[oogiebe]

Soo Hwan Hong

[bwu]

Charles Atlas
Young Joe Palooka (as opposed to the 10 Joe Palookas you can find on BoxRec)
Fidel Castro Smith a/k/a Slugger O'Toole
The Caveman

[oogiebe]

Charley Polite.

[elmersalsa]

I will always love these names:
Fighting Harada
Pone Kingpetch
Koxai Galaxy
Roberto Duran
Thomas Hearns
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Sugar Ray Leonard
Cassius Clay
Salvador Sanchez
Vicente Saldivar
Bobby Chacon

[bigjack]

http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/338046

Check out this guy.

[paddy chavez]

Slugger O'Toole was always my favorite .

[Bodyshot3]

Proud Kilimanjaro.

Somewhat brilliantly Proud was a decent-ish Zimbabwean heavyweight born just outside Harare and to the best of my knowledge he was not even remotely connected with that huge Tanzanian volcano or even that country.

But the name is a classic - it just works on a poster - and when I was bored I looked-up Proud's ring record and smiled.

He faced fellow Zimbo fighters including Black Tiger, King Power, Walter Ringo Starr, Jukebox Timebomb and King Motsi and a very cheeky chappy with a truly abysmal record who called himself George Foreman

Sadly, by the time Proud got himself noticed all the bonkers names fall away and he got stopped by Chanet, Notice and Currie. Although he would have another encounter with his old nemesis Black Tiger late in the day.

Randy and Dick Turpin are also unusual and have a certain comedic value; but I suspect most of those who faced these formidable brothers from Leamington Spa would have had other things on their minds.

[evrenb]

I was always liked Bright Spider...i still have his fight with Mo Hussein on tape. He looked so sad when he got knocked out.

[littlepug]

Whilst the names themselves are not out of the ordinary, a boxer by the name of Bill Sliney has on his record 2 of the most recognisable names in modern popular culture and they are not namesakes, check it out

[bigjack]

Whilst the names themselves are not out of the ordinary, a boxer by the name of Bill Sliney has on his record 2 of the most recognisable names in modern popular culture and they are not namesakes, check it out

Very interesting record

[Silas1066]

remember Jim "Kool-Aid" Jones? (heavyweight from Chicago back in the 80s)

I'll never forget that name

[Kalan]

Everybody has their favorite drink... Maybe he poured it in an ice cube tray and made popsicles.