Bygone monikers you prefer over their eventual replacements...

2007, huh. I guess that one is pretty old, then.

:think I remember not hearing it for the first time in English until after I already considered him "The Tortoise" (which I swear I was basing on him being called that by the Japanese boxing media but for the life of me I can't find anything online about it now...) - but then he really wasn't known in the West until he knocked out Salgado anyway, so there wouldn't really have been many English-language references to him before 2010.

 

Manny Pacquiao. (later Vic Darchinyan)

It was a variant of "The Mexican Assassin", also used for Pacquiao for a time, originally popularized by Roger Mayweather in the late 80's until JC Superstar brought that noise to a screeching halt. (as Marquez obviously did a few decades later...although Manny didn't embrace the nickname like Roger did, and in fact asked his fans to refrain from using it as he respected all his Mexican rivals)

 

Oh, I's a jive-ass turkey.

I can dig it, sucka.

 

Oh, right, of course. Mayweather's status as role model in the Armenian diaspora, or Tongan-American community is what all of us should be discussing. They are the ones to whom Mayweather has a moral obligation to set an example for. :good

 

Too close to call, IMO:

Alexander Povetkin

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: "The White Lion"

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: "The Russian Vityaz (Knight")". (changed around ~2010, circa Teke Oruh, having used The White Lion from 2008, adopting it after Byrd and before Chambers - having used no ring name for the first three years in the pros or in the amateurs)


Those are both equally decent. :conf

Vityaz sounds a little more exotic, but this is just freaking adorable: http://www.boxnews.com.ua/photos/1389/Alexander-Povetkin-Chambers7.jpg



...and before anyone brings up "Sasha", that has never been a ring name. That is the diminutive/nickname form of Alexander for every Russian & Ukrainian. Kind of like "Mikey" for Michael, etc.

 

Yeah but how much of that is just ingrained nostalgia and how much do you think all of that is truer for Iron Mike than it would've been for "Mike the Tank Tyson"?

 

BP actually isn't even kidding!

http://www.boxing247.com/weblog/news.php?p=8280&more=1

I miss the hat. :verysad