Timothy Birdnow

I know gamers often have bad hygiene, but come on!

Joe Louis fought many oddballs in his illustrious career but one of the more colorful characters was a guy named Two Ton Tony Galento. Galento was so nicknamed because he was obese, not merely a big heavyweight but obese, and proud of it. (That is very rare in boxing because usually it means the fighter has no stamina and Louis said he'd fun out of gas by the fourth round.)

But Galento had a secret weapon; he never, ever bathed. They say you could smell him blocks away. When he was in the ring no opponent wanted to clinch with him because he was so foul. He won a lot of fights just by getting his opponent to refuse to engage with him. Skunks crossed the street when Galento was coming.

This guy was kind of like that, I guess.

Galento, annoyed by Louis characterizing him as a third rate fighter, coined the phrase "I'll moider da bum."

And, despite having his face cut to the point it looked like ground beef, the stinking fat man knocked Louis down in the third round. Louis got up and promptly knocked Galento out in the fourth.

So I suppose this gamer was channeling his inner Two Ton.

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