Prize fighters with great 'actual' names.

[Willow The Wisp]

Is the first name possibly an English translation of a Nigerian name?

I had two Nigerians students, brothers, named God's Power Offer and God's Power _______ (Sorry I can't remember the younger brother's full name.)

The older brother, God's Power Offer, got a free ride to Wake Forrest (football) and eventually graduated Howard Law.

Bright kid.

Amazingly GP (that's what we called him) had his name appear as a Jeopardy question with the answer being Wake Forrest.

Great story! Not sure on the question. Always gratifying to an educator to see a student onto success. Cong****.

[QueensburyRules]

Is the first name possibly an English translation of a Nigerian name?

I had two Nigerians students, brothers, named God's Power Offer and God's Power _______ (Sorry I can't remember the younger brother's full name.)

The older brother, God's Power Offer, got a free ride to Wake Forrest (football) and eventually graduated Howard Law.

Bright kid.

Amazingly GP (that's what we called him) had his name appear as a Jeopardy question with the answer being Wake Forrest.

- - Little trivia note here:

The population center of whole of global Catholicism is slowly moving to Nigeria, or at least so I read about a few years back.

[Flickergrab98]

Heavyweight champion Tommy Burns once said, “I will beat [Jack] Johnson, or my name isn’t Tommy Burns.”
Which proved to be a jinx, because not only did he lose (as we all know), his name wasn’t actually Tommy Burns. It’s actually Noah Brusso.

Even though I normally don’t care about Burns, I have to wonder why he didn’t keep his birth name when he became a boxer. I think a name like Noah Brusso sounds pretty tough. If he kept it, he could’ve been introduced in the ring as “Bruiser Brusso” or something like that.

[Willie Pep 229]

Heavyweight champion Tommy Burns once said, “I will beat [Jack] Johnson, or my name isn’t Tommy Burns.”
Which proved to be a jinx, because not only did he lose (as we all know), his name wasn’t actually Tommy Burns. It’s actually Noah Brusso.

Even though I normally don’t care about Burns, I have to wonder why he didn’t keep his birth name when he became a boxer. I think a name like Noah Brusso sounds pretty tough. If he kept it, he could’ve been introduced in the ring as “Bruiser Brusso” or something like that.

It is where (often in boxing) Italian immigrants to America would take on Irish surnames.

In some cases just to make acceptance a little easier and with boxers to play into the already existing Irish fans. (It was their game for a while.)

It is where the term . . . 'another Irishman' came from as a tag for Italian immigrants.

Of course the common denominator was Catholism and many inter-culural marriages occured.

Fireman Jim Flynn I believe was Italian as well. And if course Rocky Kansas (but no Irish there.)

[Willow The Wisp]

Ham Pounder. Fought Archie Moore.

[Blond Beast]

Joel Casamayor always sounded nice.

[The Old LefHook]

Buster Cherry. A onetime local amateur.