Coolest Boxing Nicknames of All Time (SURVEY)

O'neil Bell- Give Em Hell
Eric Esch-Butterbean
Juan Lazcano- The Hispanic Causing Panic and the Hispanic Panic
Edison Miranda- Pantera

 

My all time favorite: the "Hit Man" for Thomas Hearns--the most fitting moniker ever given to any fighter!

 

Particularly when you’re birth name is James Smith.

 

Exactly this. It has to sound good with the given name and not just as a standalone nickname.

 

Scar, you put me on to the Barry Funches one - it’s a brilliant nickname!

 

1. Floyd Cummings - Jumbo
2. Joe Frazier - Smokin’Joe
3. Julio Cesar Chavez - J.C. Superstar
4. Oliver McCall - The Atomic Bull
5. Larry Holmes - The Easton Assassin
6. Hector Camacho - Macho
7. Alexis Arguello - The Explosive Thin Man
8. Carl Williams -The Truth
9. Saul Alvarez - Canelo
10. James Douglas - Buster
11. Adonis Stevenson - Superman
12. Oscar De La Hoya - The Golden Boy
13. John Mugabi - The Beast
14. Frank Fletcher - The Animal
15. Mike Tyson - Iron Mike
16. Evander Holyfield - The Real Deal
17. Riddick Bowe - Big Daddy
18. James Smith - Bonecrusher
19. Dwight Muhammad Qawi - The Camden Buzzsaw
20. Herol Graham - Bomber
21. Tyrone Crawley - The Butterfly
22. William Lee - Caveman Lee
23. Ray Mancini - Boom Boom
24. Leon Spinks - Neon Leon
25. Tim Witherspoon- Terrible Tim

 

The best of all:

Billy Petrolle -- THE FARGO EXPRESS!

 

Hi @Rumsfeld , you might want to post something about this in the general forum section. I think a lot of guys would like to respond to this.

 

And I forgot about Efren 'Alacran' (Scorpion) Torres and Jose 'The Threat' Baret.

 

1. David Kui Kong Young - The Clouting Celestial
2. Thomas Hearns - Motor City Cobra
3. Jack Dempsey - The Nonpareil
4. Benny Leonard - The Ghetto Wizard
5. Joe Gans - The Old Master
6. James Toney- Lights Out
7. Gene Fullmer - The Mormon Mauler
8. Henry Armstrong - Homicide Hank
9. Archie Moore- The Old Mongoose
10. Ezzard Charles - The Cincinatti Cobra
11. Mike Gibbons - The St Paul Phantom
12. Joe Walcott - The Barbados Demon
13. Ace Hudkins- The Nebraska Wildcat
14. Roberto Duran - Manos De Piedra
15. Joe Louis - The Brown Bomber
16. Naoya Inoue - The Monster
17. Jack Dempsey - The Mannassa Mauler
18. Stanley Ketchel - The Michigan Assassin
19. Jack Johnson - The Galveston Giant
20. Harold Johnson - Hercules
21. Jimmy Wilde - The Mighty Atom
22. Erik Morales - El Terrible
23. Roy Jones jr - Captain Hook
24. Marco Antonio Barrera - The Baby Faced Assasin
25. Marvin Hagler - Marvelous

 

1. "Scrap Iron" Johnson- HW George Johnson
2. Brockton Blockbuster-Rocky Marciano
3. Manessa Mauler.-Jack Dempsey
4.The Acorn- Earnie Shavers
5. the Mummy-George Foreman-Rope A Dope.(Post Fite Ali vs Foreman)
6. "Irish" Mike Nixon
7. Jewish Bomber-Mike Rossman
8. Tommy Gunn- Tommy Morrison
9.Easton Assassin- Larry Holmes
10.The Brown Bomber- Joe Louis
11. the Bellflower Bomber- Jerry Quarry
12.Fists of Stone- Roberto Duran
13.Big Ugly Bear- Charles "Sonny" Liston
14. The Rabbitt- Floyd Patterson
15. The Lion Of Flounders-Jean Pierrre Coopmans
16.Smokin Joe Frazier
17. Schoolboy-Bobby Chacon
18. Hitman Hearns- Tommy Hearns
19. Johnny "The Heat" Verderosa
20. The Greatest-Muhammad Ali

 

Just an FYI, The Mormon Mauler was Gene Fullmer not Carmen Basilio.

 

Curtis Shepherd - Hatchet Man
Oliver McCall - The Atomic Bull
Jimmy Wilde - Ghost with a Hammer in His Hands
Ezzard Charles - The Cincinnati Cobra
Archie Moore - The Old Mongoose