Hawaii Tribune-Herald · Apr 22, 2016
Just Scrap: Cabbage debuts new look at Friday night fights
When they were young and all had hair, Wesley Correira would always take the worst beating from his pals: JD and BJ Penn and Ross Ebanez.
It wasn’t dirty lickings in mixed martial arts. Rather, it was good-natured verbal jousting, and Correira always took it like a champ. He would grin and laugh it off.
And that’s how his nickname “Cabbage” came about.
“He had frizzy hair and humongous cheeks, and he looked so much like the Cabbage Patch Doll,” JD Penn said. “It was one of us at the gym who called him that. I can’t remember if it was me, BJ or Ross, and someone said he looks like the Cabbage Patch Doll.”