boxings best nicknames....

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  1. D.T

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    the real deal holyfield
     
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    iron mike
    big george
    smokin joe
    big daddy bowe
    the acorn (shavers)


    WHAT THE HELL DOES AN ACORN HAVE TO DO WITH BOXING EARNIE SHAVERS???!?!?!?
     
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  3. GPater11093

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    El Flaco Explosivo
     
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  4. Il Duce

    Il Duce Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Oscar 'Ringo' Bonavena

    Of course Oscar re-named Muhammad Ali in 1970.

    "Chicken"

    '"You make a chicken sound,,,,,Beep-Beep"

    "Why U No Fight,,,,U Smell Chicken"
     
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  5. Monte Fisto

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    I believe it was in reference to the fact that his head looked like an acorn
     
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  6. junior-soprano

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  7. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Chris 'P' Bacon

    'The Motor City Cobra' Thomas Hearns

    Robert 'Bam Bam' Hines

    'Box O' Tricks' Pedlar Palmer

    'The Mighty Atom' Jimmy Wilde

    James 'Bonecrusher' Smith

    'Iowa' Mike Tyson

    Clarance 'Bones' Adams

    Carl 'The Truth' Williams

    'The Black Cloud' Larry Holmes

    'Neon' Leon Spinks

    Ossie 'Jaws' Ocasio

    Herol 'Bomber' Graham/Frank 'Bomber' Bruno, Graham claims it from school, Bruno was billed as such in his debut. I suspect both nicked it from 'Bomber' Pat Roach, a popular British actor/wrestler.

    But I doubt no one is going to top: 'The Master of Disaster', 'The King of Sting', 'The Dancing Destroyer', 'The Count of Monte Fisto', 'The Prince of Punch', the one, the only, Apollo Creed!
     
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  8. Seamus

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    my favorite outdated name...

    "Harlem" Tommy Murphy
     
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  9. FIN

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    The Pocket Rocket,THe Executioner,The Real Deal,Hands of Stone..
     
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  10. junior-soprano

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    uhlan was the name for polish cavalry armed with sable and speer. so a strange nickname since the rhine is in western germany and the polish border is at least 400 km away
     
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  11. burt bienstock

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    i think "The Black Uhlan" might have meant Schmeling's thick black
    eyebrows .. Just a good guess...
     
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  12. Flemo83

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    Max Baer-The Livermore Larruper
     
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  13. turpinr

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    burt beinstock...............yoda
     
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  14. Kalasinn

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    'Super' Brian Nielsen!
     
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  15. Il Duce

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    Ron 'Sugar' Sweet

    Cassius 'The Louisville Lip' Clay

    Cassius 'Not Ali' Naito
     
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