Greatest Nicknames of All Time

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David Tua sounds great.

"Smokin" is also one of the best prefixes that doesn't sound cheesy and has a bit of a meaning too.

 

The Brown Bomber is classic. In fact, the Cleveland Browns got their name from that.

Some of our local boxers had interesting names:

Elijah "Tap Tap" Makhatini
Charlie "Silver Flash" Wier
Joe "Axe Killer" Ngidi
Enoch "Schoolboy" Nlapho (misspelled his surname)
Mike "The Tank" Schutte
Jimmy "Jumbo" Abbott

One of the funniest cases of irony ever...Chris Whiteboy, who was as black as the ace of spades. Not a nickname, but I had to put this one in there. It was genuinely his name too.

 

nigel 'dark destroyer' benn
derek 'pooh' ennis
phillip 'eat,shoots and' leaves
allen 'dream shatterer' conyers
'2nd to' nunn

 

Ray "Windmill" White, a late 60's, early 70's light-heavy from the Pacific Northwest. What an entertaining guy! He'd get guys in clinches with their head behind him and start whipping shots to the head (hence his nickname). I also think he was the first (before Ali) to pretend to be hurt and wobble around the ring and suddenly square up and nail a guy coming in...

 

"The Ding-a-ling man"

 

The Rochester Plasterer, Tuaman and The Ghetto Wizard.

 

"The Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand"
Jimmy Wilde.

 

I like "Caveman" Lee

 

Bobby "no dice" Chacon
Harry Wills: "The Undertaker"
Lew Jenkins had two beauties: "The Sweet Swatter from Sweetwater [Texas]" and "The Living Death".

I'd think twice about getting into the ring with something called "the Living Death"!

 

El terrible was a great 1 aswell

 

Sam "The Boston Tar Baby" Langford. Make me laugh every time.

 

Gene Hairston, a good boxing middleweight who fought LaMotta a couple times was known as Gene "Dummy" Hairston, as he was a deaf-mute, and it occurrs to me that you'd never get away with that today. Gene "the cummunicatively challenged" Hairston might work.

 

Haha , good post Chinx, never heard of any1 with such a disabiility boxing before

 

Bonecrusher.