Best names in boxing ....i'll start Slugger O'toole

[stevedoc]

i was reading about paddy fitzpatrick and thought now that's a name ,no ones gonna wonder where paddy's from or what sport he might be involved with . i always found the name slugger o'toole as a great boxing name ,what other names are great boxing names ..
ps i'm a plastic paddy myself so maybe that's why i like the irish names ....

[slapbangwhallop]

Slugger was a black lad though wasn’t he? Before my time.

Slugger O’Toole is now the name of a big political website in Northern Ireland now.

[stevedoc]

Slugger was a black lad though wasn’t he? Before my time.

Slugger O’Toole is now the name of a big political website in Northern Ireland now.

yeah slugger's real name was fidal castro smith i think and he was black but brendan ingle gave him the name slugger to make him sound irish ..there was a few heads being scratched when slugger walked out to "dirty old town" ...

[Tomasino]

Mysterious Billy Smith
Philadelphia Jack O'brien
Big Boy and Shorty Hogue
Chauncey Welliver

[hurlock]

The body snatcher!! Probably my fav

[damianhucker1]

Got me bloody wondering now, one of my boxers has someone called Fidel smith in his corner, who im always told knows his stuff but ive never put 2 and 2 together, wondering now if its the very same guy.... will feel a bit stupid if it is

[Parson Cross]

Paddy Reilly aka Clifton Mitchell.

[GlobalBox]

Real Name Arnold Cream

Known to me and you as

Jersey Joe Walcott

Always loved that one

[mickey1975]

Elvis Parsley.

[mickey1975]

Slugger was a black lad though wasn’t he? Before my time.

Slugger O’Toole is now the name of a big political website in Northern Ireland now.

How was he before your time? You don't look THAT young!

[GlobalBox]

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?cat=bo ... an_id=9189

Always love this one as well

[standing8]

Jason 'The Avalanche' Blanche
:)

[canonball1234]

Got to be...hispanic causing panic

[banjo]

Shannon "the cannon" Briggs

Girly(Shannon) yet manly(Cannon).

[kevo]

Proud Kilimanjaro. African heavyweight who fought, amongst others, the one and only Jukebox Timebomb.

[Lightsoot]

Arthur 'Stormy' Weathers

Chris P Bacon

[spudder56]

Dai bando

[milpool]

The name Cecil Coffee was always likely to strike fear...

[keithmoonhangover]

El Boom Boom Moorer

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

[reggaereggae]

I am 90% certain there was a boxer in the 80s called 'Lobster Thermidor'

[reggaereggae]

I think Tap Tap Makhatini if memory serves well

[keithmoonhangover]

Jack Dempsey fought Porky Dan Flynn, Boston Bearcat and Chief Gordon.

[reggaereggae]

And the Brit contender - Kid Galahad.

There was a 'Faintin' Phil Scott who was a British heavyweight who boxed on America I think and won many a fight by disqualification - by leaping up during fights and going over when he was hit low....

[Parson Cross]

Spice Boy.
He never properly lived that one down.

[stevedoc]

Elvis Parsley.

that always made me smile