It's funny how Rodrigo's last name got shortened to TX as unpronounceable to the general skateboarding public despite being a big name in the game. Yet in boxing, there's a C+/B level fighter like Patrick Teixeira which every random meathead wannabe boxing pundit could easily pronounce yet he was devoid of any fighting alias which is all too common in the hurt game. I thought skateboarding was a more international and accepting thing but who knows? Maybe not. Just a stupid drunken thought. Ignore me.
/edit I forgot to mention the boxer's lack of nickname and despite being an actual "sport" (more of a business really) boxing is very nationalistic and still extremely racist and narrow-minded sport. Believe me, I frequent a high-traffic boxing forum too and it's not pretty...
But you’re overlooking the context of the time period.
Other dudes with non-english sounding names who coming up in that era also had their surnames “truncated,” one presumes for marketing purposes(?)
Wade Des Armaux comes to mind.
Who got some other fun ones to share?
Somewhere, buried in countless thousand threads, is a whole discussion on the Anglicizing of skaters’ names.
Not that the topic warrants further discussion per se, but take a dive if you’re bored.
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