Which boxer was nicknamed 'The Ambling Alp'?
"his growth by smoking cigarettes when a boy."" The Yeasayer song ""Ambling Alp"", from their 2010 album ""Odd Blood"" references Carnera by his nickname in the title and second verse. Both Carnera and German boxer Max Schmeling are referenced for their bouts with American Joe Louis. The googolplex is jokingly said to have been defined as a one followed by a very large but specific number of zeros in order to ensure that Carnera would not be considered a better mathematician than Albert Einstein, implying that Carnera would defeat Einstein in an endurance contest. Primo Carnera Primo Carnera (; 26"
"the subject of a four-reel motion picture that played in major cities around the country. Battling Nelson Oscar Matthew ""Battling"" Nelson ( June 5, 1882 – February 7, 1954), was a Danish-American professional boxer who held the World Lightweight championship. He was also nicknamed ""the Durable Dane"". Nelson was born Oscar Mathæus Nielsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 5, 1882. He emigrated to the United States the following year and was raised in Hegewisch, a neighborhood on he Southeast side of Chicago. In 1913, he married Fay King, a cartoonist who did his portrait for Nelson's 1911 guide ""The wonders"
"Al Hostak Albert (Al) Paul Hostak (January 7, 1916 – August 13, 2006), nicknamed ""the Savage Slav,"" was an American middleweight boxer who fought from 1932-1949. Hostak twice held the National Boxing Association Middleweight title between 1938 and 1940. He was known as a hard puncher and had a record of 64 wins (41 knockouts), 9 losses (3 knockouts), and 11 draws. In 2003, Hostak made Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. Hostak was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Czech immigrants who eventually moved to Seattle, Washington when Hostak was two, settling in South Seattle's Georgetown"
"Alvin Lewis (boxer) Alvin Lewis, also known as Al Lewis, (born in Detroit, Michigan on 12 November 1942) was a United States professional boxer who fought in the heavyweight division under the alias """"Al ""Blue"" Lewis"""". Lewis was a long-term sparring partner of Muhammad Ali and is mentioned in Ali's autobiography. He was well-known as a powerful gym adversary. He also sparred with, among others, George Foreman before the champion's match with Ken Norton. Lewis died in Flint, Michigan on 21 January 2018, aged 75. His death was not significantly publicized. Lewis was born in Detroit and, after a troubled"
"Virginia ham."" His size earned him the nickname ""The Ambling Alp"". ""Time"" magazine called him ""The Monster"". 12 September 1928 was the date of Carnera's first professional fight, against Leon Sebilo, in Paris. Carnera won by knockout in round two. He won his first six bouts, then lost to Franz Diener by disqualification in round one at Leipzig. Then, he won seven more bouts in a row before meeting Young Stribling. He and Stribling exchanged disqualification wins, Carnera winning the first in four rounds, and Stribling winning the rematch in round seven. In Carnera's next bout he avenged his defeat"
"was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997. Al Hostak Albert (Al) Paul Hostak (January 7, 1916 – August 13, 2006), nicknamed ""the Savage Slav,"" was an American middleweight boxer who fought from 1932-1949. Hostak twice held the National Boxing Association Middleweight title between 1938 and 1940. He was known as a hard puncher and had a record of 64 wins (41 knockouts), 9 losses (3 knockouts), and 11 draws. In 2003, Hostak made Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. Hostak was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Czech immigrants who eventually moved to"
"Battling Nelson Oscar Matthew ""Battling"" Nelson ( June 5, 1882 – February 7, 1954), was a Danish-American professional boxer who held the World Lightweight championship. He was also nicknamed ""the Durable Dane"". Nelson was born Oscar Mathæus Nielsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 5, 1882. He emigrated to the United States the following year and was raised in Hegewisch, a neighborhood on he Southeast side of Chicago. In 1913, he married Fay King, a cartoonist who did his portrait for Nelson's 1911 guide ""The wonders of the Yellowstone National Park"". In 1916, they had a very public divorce. Nelson died"
"Archie Moore Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998) was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (December 1952 – May 1962). He had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport, competing from 1935 to 1963. Nicknamed ""The Mongoose"", and then ""The Old Mongoose"" in the latter half of his career, Moore was a highly strategical and defensive boxer, with a great chin and durability. Archie Moore ranks fourth on ""The Ring""s list of ""100 greatest punchers of all time"". Moore"
"Bob Armstrong Joseph Melton James (born October 3, 1939) is an American retired professional wrestler and Hall of Famer, better known by his ring name, ""Bullet"" Bob Armstrong. In the course of his career, which spanned five decades, Armstrong held numerous championships throughout the Southeastern United States. His four sons, Joseph, Robert, Steve and Brian, all became wrestlers, the elder three under ""Armstrong"" ringnames, and Brian as a ""James"". When he was a child, Joseph James's father took him to see Gorgeous George wrestle. The young James was impressed and intrigued by the flamboyant performer. As a young man, James"
"Andy Hug Andreas ""Andy"" Hug (September 7, 1964 – August 24, 2000) was a Swiss karateka and kickboxer who competed in the heavyweight division. Considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers of all time, along with Mirko Cro Cop, Peter Aerts, Remy Bonjasky, Ernesto Hoost and Semmy Schilt, Hug was renowned for his ability to execute numerous kicking techniques rarely seen in high level competition and although he was usually smaller than his opponents, standing at and being barely a heavyweight, weighing around in his prime, he made up for his lack of size with his tremendous athleticism"
"Henry Armstrong Henry Jackson Jr. (December 12, 1912 – October 24, 1988) was an American professional boxer and a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. Armstrong was one of the few fighters to win in three or more different divisions: featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight. He defended his welterweight title a total of nineteen times. ""The Ring"" magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1937, while the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named him Fighter of the Year in 1940. In 2007, ""The Ring"" ranked Armstrong as the second-greatest fighter of the last 80 years."
"Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. Nicknamed ""The Greatest"", he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest boxers of all time. He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and began training as an amateur boxer when he was 12 years old. At age 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, then turned professional later"
"Lou Ambers Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio (November 8, 1913 – April 25, 1995), a.k.a. Lou Ambers, was a World Lightweight boxing champion who fought from 1932 to 1941. Born Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio on November 8, 1913 in Herkimer, New York, Ambers started out in a large Italian family, struggling to find an identity. Luigi took a ring name because he was afraid his Italian mother would find out that he was a fighter. He defeated future world junior welterweight champion Johnny Jadick in a ten round unanimous decision on March 19, 1934, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Ambers defeated former world junior welterweight"
"Deanna Dempsey died in 2003. Jack Dempsey William Harrison ""Jack"" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed ""Kid Blackie"" and ""The Manassa Mauler"", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. A cultural icon of the 1920s, Dempsey's aggressive fighting style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first million-dollar gate. Dempsey is ranked tenth on ""The Ring"" magazine's list of all-time heavyweights and seventh among"
"Al Davis (boxer) Al ""Bummy"" Davis (January 26, 1920 in New York, N.Y. – November 21, 1945 in Brooklyn, N.Y.), born Albert Abraham Davidoff, was an American lightweight and welterweight boxer who fought from 1937 to 1945. He was a serious contender, and a world ranked boxer in both weight classes. Davis grew up in the rough and tough, then-predominantly Jewish Brownsville section of Brooklyn. His father ran a produce pushcart and later owned a candy store during the 1920's, Prohibition days. Davis' job, as a young boy of seven, was to keep lookout for the police and give the"
"Bob Armstrong (boxer) Bob Armstrong (September 4, 1873 – January 5, 1933), was a heavyweight boxer known as the ""King of the Battle Royal"". He was born in Rogersville, Tennessee, but he moved with his family to Washington, Ohio when he was three years old. Before he got into boxing, Armstrong worked with racing horses in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He made his debut on September 19 in a six-rounder against Joe Choynski in Chicago, Illinois. He lost the decision on points. Choynski used him as a sparring partner, as did world heavyweight champion pretender Tom Sharkey and the true heavyweight champs"
"Gorilla Jones (""The Fighting Gorilla"") Gorilla Jones was an African American boxer known as ""The Fighting Gorilla"" who fought out of Alexandria, Louisiana as a welterweight from 1913 to 1924. He may have provided the nickname for William Landon Jones (1906–1982), also known as Gorilla Jones, who was the second black boxer to win the world middleweight title. Jones won on a first round disqualification against Battling Ortega from a low blow in Colorado, Springs on September 1, 1921. On January 6, 1922, Jones defeated well known black boxer Speedball Hayden in a ninth round knockout at Fort Bliss Arena"
"Jack Dempsey William Harrison ""Jack"" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed ""Kid Blackie"" and ""The Manassa Mauler"", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. A cultural icon of the 1920s, Dempsey's aggressive fighting style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first million-dollar gate. Dempsey is ranked tenth on ""The Ring"" magazine's list of all-time heavyweights and seventh among its Top 100 Greatest Punchers,"
"the German heavyweight Max Schmeling and the American Max Baer, who wielded a devastating right hand. Baer was defeated by ""Cinderella Man"" James Braddock, a former light heavyweight contender before a series of injuries and setbacks during the Great Depression and was at one point even stripped of his license. Most famous of all was Joe Louis, who avenged an earlier defeat by demolishing Schmeling in the first round of their 1938 rematch. Louis was voted the best puncher of all time by ""The Ring"", and is arguably the greatest heavyweight of all time. In 1938, Henry Armstrong became the"
"Carl Abs Carl Johann Theodor Abs, generally referred to as Carl Abs (September 12 1851, Groß Godems, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – February 18 1895, Hamburg), also known as ""The German Oak"", was one of Germany's most well known professional wrestlers in the 19th century and is considered the founder of modern professional wrestling in Germany. His life and work both inside and outside the ring attracted great public interest in the late 19th century. In 1891 a book about the life of Carl Abs as a championship wrestler and a champion for the poor was published called ""Carl Abs,"
"Mike Awesome Michael Lee Alfonso (January 24, 1965 – February 17, 2007) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the American professional wrestling promotions Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment under the ring name Mike Awesome and for his appearances in Japan for with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling as The Gladiator. Alfonso achieved the biggest success of his career in FMW as The Gladiator, where he became a three-time world champion, with two reigns as Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion and one reign as Independent Heavyweight"
"Frank Androff Frank Fred Androff (November 25, 1913 – July 18, 1987), alias ""The Great One"", was a heavyweight professional boxer from Anoka, Minnesota. Androff made his professional boxing debut on February 2, 1933 with a four-round decision victory against Rene Barrett. Androff's record remained unblemished until his fourth fight, a six-round draw in a rematch with Barrett. After two more wins pushed his record to 5-0-1, Androff lost for the first time, to Earl Sather on November 15, 1934. Nevertheless Androff continued to fight, putting together the best stretch of his career when, between March 1935 and June 1938"
"Al Phillips Al ""The Aldgate Tiger"" Phillips (25 January 1920 – 7 February 1999) was a Jewish English professional featherweight/lightweight boxer of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, who won the European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title, and British Empire featherweight title. Phillips took both the British Empire and sanctioned British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight Title against the powerful black feather British Guianan Cliff Anderson in fifteen rounds at Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, England in 1947. He was an unsuccessful challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight title, against Nel Tarleton in February 1945, and Ronnie Clayton in"
"22 wins, 13 losses, and 7 draws, with 10 of his wins coming by knockout. Frank Androff Frank Fred Androff (November 25, 1913 – July 18, 1987), alias ""The Great One"", was a heavyweight professional boxer from Anoka, Minnesota. Androff made his professional boxing debut on February 2, 1933 with a four-round decision victory against Rene Barrett. Androff's record remained unblemished until his fourth fight, a six-round draw in a rematch with Barrett. After two more wins pushed his record to 5-0-1, Androff lost for the first time, to Earl Sather on November 15, 1934. Nevertheless Androff continued to fight,"
"Wildcat Monte Monte H. Deadwiley (February 15, 1905 – October 26, 1961) was an American professional boxer nicknamed ""Wildcat Monte"" who fought as a welterweight boxer. He was active from 1923 to 1937 and fought a recorded 313 times in his 13 year-career. He has been regarded as one of the most active boxers of his time having fought over 30 times in one year periods throughout his career. Monte debut on March 16, 1923 in a fight against Bill Bush which he won by decision. He would fight a recorded 38 times in 1924 and come close to that"
"Arkangel de la Muerte Alfredo Pasillas (July 16, 1966 – June 13, 2018) was a Mexican luchador and enmascarado (masked) professional wrestler, best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Arkangel de la Muerte. He is often referred to as just Arkangel, and previously worked under the ring name Mister Cid until 1991. His name means ""Archangel of Death"" in Spanish. In addition to his long in-ring career, Arkangel was most known for being a prolific professional wrestling trainer with CMLL's wrestling school and had a small"
"Jack McAuliffe (boxer) Jack McAuliffe (March 24, 1866 – November 5, 1937) was an Irish-American boxer who fought mostly out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nicknamed ""The Napoleon of the Ring,"" McAuliffe is one of only fifteen world boxing champions to retire without a loss. He was the World Lightweight champion from 1886 to 1893. He was inducted into ""The Ring"" Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995. McAuliffe's parents were Cornelius McAuliffe and Jane Bailey, who were living at 5 Christ Church Lane, Cork, Ireland, at the time of Jack's birth. McAuliffe emigrated"
"Jack Johnson (boxer) John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). Among the period's most dominant champions, Johnson remains a boxing legend, with his 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries dubbed the ""fight of the century"". According to filmmaker Ken Burns, ""for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth"". Transcending boxing, he became part of the culture and the history of"
"Joe Frazier Joseph William Frazier (January 12, 1944 – November 7, 2011), nicknamed ""Smokin' Joe"", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. He reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973, and as an amateur won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Frazier was known for his sheer strength, durability, formidable punching power, and relentless pressure fighting style. Frazier emerged as the top contender in the late 1960s, defeating opponents that included Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonavena, Buster Mathis, Eddie Machen, Doug Jones, George Chuvalo, and Jimmy Ellis en route to becoming undisputed"
"Yusuf İsmail Yusuf İsmail (1857 – July 4, 1898), also widely known as Youssouf Ishmaelo, was a Turkish professional wrestler who competed in Europe and the United States as Yusuf Ismail the Terrible Turk during the 1890s. During his lifetime, his native Turks knew him as ""Şumnulu Yusuf Pehlivan"". However, writer Rıza Tevfik posthumously awarded him the honorific ""Koca"" (""great""), and thus he was later remembered as ""Koca Yusuf"". Widely known for his massive size and brute strength, he was recognized as one of the top three strongmen in the world by Alan Calvert, pioneer of American weight training, and"
"Al Cole Alfred Rudolph Cole (born April 21, 1964), best known as Al Cole, is an American former professional boxer. He won the IBF cruiserweight title and was a major force in the division until moving up to heavyweight, where he had less success. In 2001, Cole portrayed boxer Ernie Terrell in the film ""Ali"". Cole, at 6'4"", was a large and dominant cruiserweight boxer. Later in his career, he did not have the size or power to compete at the upper echelon of the heavyweight division when he moved up in weight class. He listed his hometown as Spring"
"Alfredo Angulo Alfredo Angulo López (born August 11, 1982) is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBO interim junior middleweight title from 2009 to 2010. As an amateur he represented Mexico at the 2004 Olympics, reaching the first round of the middleweight bracket. Nicknamed """"El Perro"""" (""The Dog""), Angulo was a highly regarded junior middleweight prospect in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and is particularly known for his relentless pressure fighting style and formidable punching power. He qualified for the Olympic Games by ending up in second place at the 1st AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in"
"remains as a true legend in kickboxing and knockdown karate, as well as one of the greatest heavyweights in the history of both sports. Hug was the highest paid kickboxer in the world at one point and his matches in his native Switzerland, where he posted a perfect 6-0 record, drew a larger television audience than the tennis matches of Martina Hingis and the games of the Swiss national football team. In addition to his in-ring accomplishments, he was also known for his articulation, humility and strong work ethic. Legend: Legend: Andy Hug Andreas ""Andy"" Hug (September 7, 1964 –"