Best nickname in Boxing History

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Originally Posted by Bigsexy

Terrible tim (witherspoon), terrible terry (norris)

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'Terrible' Terry McGovern beat both by 80+ years ;)

The Body Snatcher.

Tommy Hearns gave it to him when they sparred, by the way.

The Ugandan Destroyer was always a favourite of mine.
"El Terrible" is another good one.

Most over used of all time has to go to "Sugar"

I always judge them by how good they sound when the ring announcer rumbles em off. Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield was awesome in this respect.

Whilst he was unbeaten; Michael 'Second to' Nunn

Willie 'The Worm' Monroe

Eugene 'Cyclone' Hart

Bobby 'Boogaloo' Watts

Robert 'Bam Bam' Hines

Iran 'The Blade' Barkley

Another one I liked; Chris 'P' Bacon ;)

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Originally Posted by bigragu

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Originally Posted by gbrandon

I must admit that Pernell Whitaker is my favorite of all time but the nickname sweet pea was lackluster. Golden Boy has to be the most fruity nickname in history. He sounds like a gay super hero.

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"sweet" pea on the streets back in the old days meant "PUNK"..Punk means your the catcher in a gay relationship..like i said it was back in the old days.....don't think that would be a very good nickname....

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Got kind of a gay hate deal there Ragu? Why bring it up unless you are insinuating something. The fact was he was a fine boxer and if he was gay I would still be proud to shake his hand and call him champ today.

Apollo "The Master of Disaster/The King of Sting" Creed
Tommy "Machine" Gunn

Frank 'Crap' Bruno !!

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Originally Posted by Mark TKO

Frank 'Crap' Bruno !!

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Bomber; if you don't mind ;)

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Originally Posted by Mintymen

Apollo "The Master of Disaster/The King of Sting" Creed

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IMO you forgot Apollo's best one 'The Count of Monte Fisto' ;D

Just realised what I have done! This thread is going to be moved in about 5 minutes when Steelie sees it ;)

Honorable mention goes to the Viper Vernon Forresty

Thomas Hearns other nickname was great:

Thomas "The motor city cobra" Hearns

"Iron" Mike Tyson

"Dr. Steelhammer" WK

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Originally Posted by Britkid

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Originally Posted by Mintymen

Apollo "The Master of Disaster/The King of Sting" Creed

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IMO you forgot Apollo's best one 'The Count of Monte Fisto' ;D

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;D

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Originally Posted by AdamGB

we used to have guy's like Smoking Joe and 'the real deal' Holyfeild...

Until Big foot got rid of him we were stuck with 'the quiet man' what the fuck is that? thats weak :P

John "modest man" Ruiz
John "nice chap" Ruiz
John "humble pie" Ruiz

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BTW "The Quiet Man" is the name of a John Wayne movie, he was a boxer who killed someone in the ring and moved to Ireland etc etc etc

I like hispanic causing panic.