Best Nickname in BOXING HISTORY!?

Thought this poem might be appropriate here:


Philadelphia, 1946.
Night. My father and I are walking home
along a pavement raked by swirling snowflakes
wherever the wind kicks up. Having just emerged
from under the beamed shadows of the El
we cross to the Arena, heading home
– to mashed potatoes, sisters, downcast eyes,
anger and sullen silence – past the wall
in which a door stands open and I see
in luminous blackness hundreds of black shapes,
heads and shoulders, the sides of faces silvered
in swirls of smoke, the embers of cigars
glowing an instant and then blacking out –
far off in the black depths the source of light,
the canvas square of ring circled by kliegs
and a slim brown man who has a bigger man
pinned on the ropes, digging blood-red gloves
methodically, like a man chopping wood,
into his ribs, the white skin splotching pink.
Could I have seen at that distance the rocking
and ripple of muscle under the bronze skin
or did I just imagine all of this?
It couldn’t have been much more than a second –
my father was a very impatient man –
but there it is, as radiant as just now.
My arm was jerked hard, I was dragged away
wondering desperately who the man was – then
there he was on a poster, fists cocked, poised,
smiling behind his gloves. I have forgotten
the name of his opponent but not his name.
I loved him, and I wanted what he had –
not the jeweled belt, the title, money, fame –
what could they mean to an eleven-year-old?
No, what I wanted was the pride and power,
prowess and speed and grace, and even more,
fearlessness in the face of bigger men.
And that most beautiful of names – Beau Jack.

 

Surprised to see no one mention they liked "The Bodysnatcher" - I always liked that one.

Also "Boom Boom" and i thought James "Buster" Douglas always went well. Also "Lights Out" and "Hands of Stone" - or as Barry McGuigans wife calls Duran, "Stone Fist"

 

"Ellbows" McFadden.

 

Homer "Brick Hit House" Simpson was another favourite

 

Lights Out.

Pretty Boy.

Golden Boy.

The Executioner.

I've always found these names very catchy.

 

Roman "made in hell" karmazin

Willie "will o the wisp" pep

Bobby "boogaloo" watts

 

I like the ones that just roll off the tongue, to the point where it takes the place of the fighter's first name.

Boom Boom Mancini
Bonecrusher Smith

Stuff like that.

 

Davaryll Williamson (touch of sleep)
Darrol Wilson (doin´ damage)

 

'Hands of Stone' / 'Thunder' / 'El Terrible' / 'The Body Snatcher'

 

the brixton bomber
sugar ray robinson (the whole name is a nickname)
the ghost

 

Always liked Smokin' Joe Frazier

 

swamp donkey

 

The Hitman Hearns
The Blade Barkley

 

Surprised no one's mentioned Manny "The Mexicutioner" Pacquiao yet.

All the other ones I can think of have already been said though.

 

I was always a huge fan of 'The thunder from down under'