Best nicknames/aliases in boxing history?

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  1. McGrain

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    Pedlar Palmer.
     
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    Yeah, if I remember rightly his real given name was in fact Fidel Castro Smith (I'm guessing his parents were somewhere on the Left of the political spectrum) but he started out fighting as "Slugger O'Toole" for a few years before using his real name.
    I guess he realized his real name was pretty cool for a fighter too.
     
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    Well he's not a boxer, but it's a great nickname:

    Frank "The Big Hurt" Thomas.
     
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    joe "old bones" brown
     
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    jimmy wilde was also known as the mighty atom
     
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    homicide hank
    joe "old bones" brown
    Boston tar baby
    simply the best
    manos de piedra or hands of stone
    Cuban hawk
    the Tacoma assassin
    boom boom
    Cincinnati cobra
    hurricane
    buster
    smoking
    brown bomber
    fighting marine
    el flaco explosivo
    the professor
    lamington licker
    escopeta
    el alcran
     
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    Greg "Mutt" Haugen
     
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    Quite true he was :)
     
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    Harlem Tommy Murphy
     
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    My buddies back in Texas Ike The President Ibeabuchi, Jesse The Junkyard Dog Shelby
     
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    bonecrusher
    razor
    hitman
    pinky(isnt one of them )
     
  12. Ken Ashcroft

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    Nicknames today just don't seem to have the same panache or imagination.
     
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    Jeff Clarke was the Joplin ghost and Sam Langford was the Boston bone crusher
     
  14. Ken Ashcroft

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    You're saying it's second to none? :number_one:
     
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    Koala Tea