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Smokin' Joe Frazier
Joe 'Just glad to be here' Bugner
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Juan "The Hispanic causing panic" Lazcano
Sammy" The who can Mexican" Vasquez
Tiger "Georgia Deacon" Flowers
Adam "The swamp donkey" Richards
Lew "living death" and "sweetwater slinger" Jenkins
Darnell "ding a ling man" Wilson
Greg "Mutt" Haugen
Those are among the best, first one was what I thought of :P If either of those first two had happened to be greater fighters, they would be clearly regarded as such.
Still time for Vasquez. But great would be a stretch ;D
Was thinking Jesus 'The Hawaiian punch' Salud. Surely he had to try and get a marketing deal with the drink company ;D
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Hard to top Swamp Donkey.
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Anyone name Merciless Ray Mercer yet. I'm sure Tommy Morrison would agree Mercer was worthy of that nickname.
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I went to see James Toney in a main event ($10 tickets and was able to walk all the way down to ringside....Yay. On the undercard, some guy named "The Weasel" went against some up-and-comer. He had like 9 wins and 30+ losses. Clearly a "jobber".
I chatted with him on the floor during one of the intermissions later on. He couldn't have been no more than 28 years old and up close his face was almost completely scarred up and teeth were warped. If I were a betting man, I would wager than most of the members on this board would compare his face to his prom pictures and believe they were two completely different people.
Anyways, a promoter approached him to give him his purse. I caught a glimpse of it and it was a little under $700. Sad.
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I always felt that the very best nickname of all time by a mile is -
Jimmy Wilde " The Ghost With The Hammer In his Hand "
I've always had a bit of a man crush on that little guy. Villa would have never beaten a prime Jimmy Wilde. It has never ceased to amaze me over the years at the amount of people at forums that discount this little fella on biggest puncher lists or leave him off all together. 95 pounding soaking wet and has to be the biggest puncher if "pound for pound" means anything that ever walked the face of the earth
Anyway, Anthony "Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr" Small has always cracked me up. Its so sad its great.
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I always felt that the very best nickname of all time by a mile is -
Jimmy Wilde " The Ghost With The Hammer In his Hand "
I've always had a bit of a man crush on that little guy. Villa would have never beaten a prime Jimmy Wilde. It has never ceased to amaze me over the years at the amount of people at forums that discount this little fella on biggest puncher lists or leave him off all together. 95 pounding soaking wet and has to be the biggest puncher if "pound for pound" means anything that ever walked the face of the earth
Anyway, Anthony "Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr" Small has always cracked me up. Its so sad its great.
I read Wilde was a monster puncher, like Stanley Ketchell.
Anthony Small went extreme literally.
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I always felt that the very best nickname of all time by a mile is -
Jimmy Wilde " The Ghost With The Hammer In his Hand "
I've always had a bit of a man crush on that little guy. Villa would have never beaten a prime Jimmy Wilde. It has never ceased to amaze me over the years at the amount of people at forums that discount this little fella on biggest puncher lists or leave him off all together. 95 pounding soaking wet and has to be the biggest puncher if "pound for pound" means anything that ever walked the face of the earth
Anyway, Anthony "Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr" Small has always cracked me up. Its so sad its great.
I read Wilde was a monster puncher, like Stanley Ketchell.
Anthony Small went extreme literally.
Although officially Archie Moore has the most KO wins in Queensberry Rules history; most think Wilde probably has the actual most, it is just a lot harder to research his career.
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Pat " The Black Flash " Barrett.
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Pat " The Black Flash " Barrett.
Barrett had a monster left hook.