by Milo

I’ve just heard that Ronato Alcano, the champion of the World Pool Championship 2006 is now nicknamed/monickered “the Volcano.”

So apparently, they just played on his surname and got Volcano.  You know, remove A from Alcano, and add Vo to the beginning.  I don’t think it’s derived from his personality, unless it is a “dormant” volcano.

Shucks, I believe he deserved a better monicker than that.  After all, he won the most coveted title of World Pool Champion.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but his monicker doesn’t have a history, heck, they don’t even rhyme for speaking ease.  I’m already imagining foreign announcers pronouncing one of the words wrong, a tongue-twister if you may.

“Hailing from Philippines…. Ronato, the vol-K-nohhh, Al-K-Nohhhh!” or “From the Philippines, Ronnie, the vol-KAH-nohhh, Al-KAH-nohhhh!”

Where’s the wit?  Where’s the magic?  The substance? Had they run out of monickers after good ones like “The Black Widow” Jeanette Lee, “The Magician” or “Bata” Efren Reyes, “The Rocket” Rodney Morris, “The Scorpion” Johnny Archer, “The Kaiser” Ralf Souquet, Rodolfo “Boy Samson” Luat, Tony “The Tornado” Drago, “The Texas Tornado” Vivian Villareal, “Duchess of Doom” Allison Fisher, “Taisun (Little Genius) Wu Chia Ching, “The Irish Invader” Karen Corr or even Earl “the Pearl” Strickland?

I invite everyone to think of a better monicker for Ronnie Alcano than “the Volcano”.  Just post it in the comments page.