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Can someone tell me what the fuckk a Meldrick is??
Or a Pernell?
Have any of you ever seen or heard of a Meldrick or Pernell outside of boxing? To this day i have never come across another 1 outside the two olympians in all my travels.

And Evander thats a dumbass name for a black american Atlantan why couldnt his mum name him George or Dwayne or a normal American name?

There was an actor named Pernell Roberts (hope I'm spelling it right) who played Dr. John McIntyre in the series Trapper John.
In the series Homicide, one of the characters was Detective Meldrick Lewis, played by Clark Johnson.

With respect to Evander, that's the middle name of John Evander Cooey (sp?), a white Florida man who killed a little girl named Jessica, kept her dead body in his trailer and then buried her in (I think) his backyard. He got sentenced to death.

Ah, just looked up John Evander Couey, who was born in 1958 (before Evander Holyfield). He died of anal cancer while on death row. The victim was nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford.

Evander, Pernell & Meldrick are all old names, either Greek or Latin in origin.

Lennox is also a "proper" name, just not a particularly popular one.

Riddick is a name that I think appears to be made up.

Wasn't Lennox a character in Macbeth?

Yeah, think it's his surname though.

Cuban names have gotten alot stranger. The Jose's,Roberto's, and Pedro's are being replaced by Osjami, Ynilo, Rogny, etc.

Seamus wrote:Cuban names have gotten alot stranger. The Jose's,Roberto's, and Pedro's are being replaced by Osjami, Ynilo, Rogny, etc.

Udell.:)

orbtastic wrote:Yeah, think it's his surname though.

Title actually, he's Thane of Lennox.

Lennox is also a surname (as in Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics), they often get used as forenames, mine for example and my paternal grandfather Sinclair.

In Menace to Society, Caine's mentor/uncle was named Pernell. Ended up doing 25 to life. A tragedy.

mugabi wrote:Can someone tell me what the fuckk a Meldrick is??
Or a Pernell?
Have any of you ever seen or heard of a Meldrick or Pernell outside of boxing? To this day i have never come across another 1 outside the two olympians in all my travels.

And Evander thats a dumbass name for a black american Atlantan why couldnt his mum name him George or Dwayne or a normal American name?

I don't find anything weird about any of those names. If anything, they sound like nerdy first names.

I just realized that the OP referred to Holy as a black Atlantan. He was born in Alabama.

mugabi wrote:Can someone tell me what the fuckk a Meldrick is??
Or a Pernell?
Have any of you ever seen or heard of a Meldrick or Pernell outside of boxing? To this day i have never come across another 1 outside the two olympians in all my travels.

And Evander thats a dumbass name for a black american Atlantan why couldnt his mum name him George or Dwayne or a normal American name?

Meldrick is an old English name. Others have answered the others I think.

"Orlin" Norris

"Tippy" Larkin (I know he's from wayyyy back before the 80's but holy cow,what a wimpy name for a boxer).

"Iran" Barkley

"Stacey" Goodson (90's journeyman turned promoter).

Jemal Hinton.

I guess it would be worse if women were pro boxing in the 80s....we would have had loads of yolandas, and liniquwa's and Teshawna's and Pernellas no doubt