Fighters who's nicknames didn't suit them

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  1. Mike_b

    Mike_b Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I must say : Larry the legend Donald, Kevin kingpin Johnson was essentially a safety pin lol. And Ricardo Mayorga: it is to my understanding that a matador is graceful, but a bull he was like running loose in a China shop, so "toro" (unless matador means bull in spanish then I'm dead wrong) those are the three I can think of
     
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  2. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hector "Macho" Camacho. Don't get me wrong Camacho was tough and was never stopped in his career but his style of fighting is far from what I would consider "macho". That term fits with someone like Roberto Duran or Julio Cesar Chavez.
     
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  3. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This conversation can only lead to the ultimate travesty. "The Entertainer"
     
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  4. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Carl "The Cobra" Froch. When I think of Cobra I think of fast, technical, and finesse with viper-like precision like Ezzard Charles, Thomas Hearns and Donald Curry. Froch is the exact opposite. The Python would be more fitting.
     
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  5. Dynamicpuncher

    Dynamicpuncher Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Herol "Bomber" Graham
     
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  6. Mark Anthony

    Mark Anthony Sidney Sweeney got a flat ass Full Member

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    Ricky hitman Hatton, suited Hearns far more cause he was like a sniper looking to hit a target Hatton never had one punch KO power.
     
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  7. Terror

    Terror free smoke Full Member

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    I think Mayorga's matador had other links, to his past gang ties. Really it just means "the killer." He fought like a killer.

    Super Brian Nielsen. Super pile of dog excro that career was. I just watched his fight vs. Bonecrusher Smith, and he headbutted Smith's face off and the corrupt refs called it a TKO because Smith was complaining his face was broken due to an obvious headbutt. Total sham. I guess he was Super horrible and Super untalented and Super corrupt and had the body of a Super used car salesman.

    The safety pin is a great call lol. Hurricane Peter McNeeley.
     
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  8. Glass City Cobra

    Glass City Cobra H2H Burger King

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    James "Bone crusher" Smith, 52% KO ratio, yet apparently one of the hardest hitters of all time according to h2h experts.
     
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  9. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    On the one hand, Bobby Chacon was a student at Cal-Northridge when he turned pro.

    But in the greater sense of how we think of the word, Bobby was no “Schoolboy.”
     
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  10. Thread Stealer

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    Ricardo Mayorga didn’t fight like a Matador.

    “Irish” Terry Conklin
     
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  11. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Hatton did have decent power....
     
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  12. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    "Iron Boy" Ivan Calderon..when I think of Iron I think of people who hit like Mike Tyson.
     
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  13. BoB Box

    BoB Box "Hey Adam! Wanna play Nintendo?" Full Member

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    Darnell " Ding-A- Ling" Wilson
    Not sure if this nick name fits any boxer to be honest, kind of weird.
     
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  14. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    “ The Professor “ didn’t really suit Azumah Nelson…He was a puncher with a good defense…
     
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  15. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    “ The Bodysnatcher “ Mike Mccallum …I know a lot of guys who did it better
     
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