Boxers with non-threatening nicknames

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  1. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Pat, the name Bunny always confounded me until I asked a Jamaican friend about it and he said it was just a nickname, that's all. I know Bunny Sterling is actually Basil and Bunny Grant, who I thought was Leslie is George Leslie according to boxrec. But there is nothing there for Johnson. But something tells me there is more to it and we just don't know the real handle.
     
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    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Robert 'Songbird' Williams
    Baby Casanova
    Sugar Baby Rojas
    Walter 'Peanuts' Arsenault
     
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  3. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Think of it as more of a delayed threat — you get cavities from too much sugar and next thing you know you’re strapped in a dentist’s chair.
     
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  4. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic Our pope is the Holy Spirit Full Member

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    Carl "The Truth" Williams.
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    I have noticed that if a boxer's name is Tony and his last name starts with the letter "T" there is a good chance he will be nicknamed "TNT"; examples:
    Tony "TNT" Tubbs
    Tony "TNT" Tucker
     
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  5. escudo

    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    There's been a few dozen "Gentleman" That guys over the centuries. Gentleman Richard Humphries fought in the 1790's is the oldest I recall.
     
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    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You know how bad a Mfer you have to be to get taken seriously as a grown man called Sweet Pea?
     
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  7. nikrj

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    José "Mantequilla" Nápoles

    Román "Chocolatito" González
     
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  8. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ted (Farmer) Wright - doesn't really send chills up my spine. Just sayin'
     
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  9. JunlongXiFan

    JunlongXiFan 45-6 in Kirks Chmpionshp Boxing Predictions 2022 Full Member

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    Alexander "Sasha" Povetkin
     
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    Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss
     
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  11. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    'Schoolboy' Bobby Chacon
    'Slapsie' Maxie Rosenbloom
     
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  12. KasimirKid

    KasimirKid Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Unknown Winston
    Johnny Honeyboy Bratton
     
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    Ryan 'Spice boy' Rhodes.

    Given to him around the time of the Spice Girls, not a modern version which would probably mean unconscious due to being off his head on drugs :nonono
     
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    Jarrell 'Big Baby' Miller
     
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  15. Bobby Tony

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    Harry 'Kid' Matthews
    Jack 'Nonpariel' Dempsey
    Lennox 'the pugilist specialist' Lewis (like you expect a 98 lb weakling with glasses and a lot of boxing books, then Lennox the Lion shows up)
    Ted Cheeseman (arf arf)
     
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