Boxer's alias nicknames ?

Black Ball

Right,... some are deserved , some are made-up to help promote a fighter, but some are off the wall.

Roman "made in hell" Karmazon
Owen "what the heck" Beck
Mike "the Body Snatcher" McCallum
Bob "Hands of stone" Duran
Andy "6-heads" Lewis ........nearly forgot about him

Anybody know why/how Robinson got the name "SUGAR" ?
I think all the other sugar's got the name from the legend of Robinson's style.

sligobhoy67

you gotta love - DaVarryl "Touch Of Sleep" Williamson

foams

Sugar Ray Robinson got his name through borrowing his friends boxing gym
card whos name was Sugar Ray Robinson. Get a better explanation on the excellent documentary on youtube, Sugar Ray Robinson p4p profile.

Big Ears

sligobhoy67 wrote: »

you gotta love - DaVarryl "Touch Of Sleep" Williamson

There is a reason for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxb1Efdzhcs

megadodge

Anybody know why/how Robinson got the name "SUGAR" ?

His real name was Walker Smith, but he used another fighter's card (can't remember why, possibly too young) whose name was Ray Robinson.
Anyway, when a certain person was talking to his trainer he commented that Robbie was "as sweet as sugar", hence the name.

MBC

Paul "Scrap Iron" Ryan.........use to nearly pee meself laughing when hearing him been entered into a ring:rolleyes:

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=26868&cat=boxer

Benazir Bhutto

Tony "oakey cokey" oakey

Big Ears

Benazir Bhutto wrote: »

Tony "oakey cokey" oakey

Made hilarious by Cokey later testing positive for.......Cocaine .

Black Ball

Thomas "slab" Murphy

sligobhoy67

Black Ball wrote: »

Thomas "slab" Murphy

not funny

megadodge

Chris "P" Bacon.

So simple. So effective.

joepenguin

one of the commentators played on jermain taylors in one of his last fights:

tonight he looked more like "no intentions"

was funny at the time cause that pretty much summed up his performance:rolleyes:

Big Ears

joepenguin wrote: »

one of the commentators played on jermain taylors in one of his last fights:

tonight he looked more like "no intentions"

was funny at the time cause that pretty much summed up his performance:rolleyes:

Or any of his performances(bar the recent Pavlik fight) . .

The Davestator

Gotta be 'Sean short fuse Hughes' He fought in the stadium a while back, cant remember against who. Not to forget;
Frankie the surgeon Randall and James lights out Toney!

Big Ears

The Davestator wrote: »

Gotta be 'Sean short fuse Hughes' He fought in the stadium a while back, cant remember against who. Not to forget;
Frankie the surgeon Randall and James lights out Toney!

It was Dunne he fought in the stadium(getting stopped in 2 rounds) , he beat Esham Pickering over 8 rounds in his last fight and tonight the two rematch for Pickering's British title .