A keen boxer, he achieved his nickname'Lugs'early in life due to his Cauliflower ears, a condition most common among mixed martial artists and grapplers, it is said he got the name because of his ears by a Dublin criminal in the 1940s-a nickname he disliked.
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The downpour of abuse that fell on Mary Pierce, the Franco-American tennis diva, must have seemed like air raid sirens, harsh enough to give her cauliflower ears, to make her want to use her racket as a spade for digging a shelter in the sepia earth of Court Central.
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Bertie compares him with Reginald " Kipper " Herring in Jeeves in the Offing; " Kipper " ( with his cauliflower ear ) would " have been an unsafe entrant to have backed in a beauty contest, even if the only other competitors had been Boris Karloff, King Kong and Oofy Prosser . . . ."
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He did end up on his back in the ninth round, and he had cauliflower ear by night's end, and he reneged on his bet, but his evening was not a total loss _ there was, for instance, the $ 3 million he was handed and the head butt that may have ruined De La Hoya's morning photo shoot.
