Greatest Nicknames of All Time

Yeah, funny thing, T., I saw Gene with LaMotta on TV, one night a couple of weeks ago, and Hairston was so elusive in there, you got the feeling that it was directly related to his disability; because he couldn't hear the loud crowd at St. Nick's, he was less there than Jake, less there than anybody, so less distracted by the noise and more able to focus on the visible and the physical, like the opposite of a blind musician with a miracle ear, much more sensitive to the nuances of sound than sighted people that they are on a different aural plane.

 

Interesting that. Keep these stories coming whenever you feel like or get the opportunity!

 

Ibar "the sailor" Arrington. What a lunatic he was! He loved getting hit!

 

Love these choices VW.

2nd to Nunn, just brilliant

 

I always liked that one. Not the fighter, just the nickname.

 

"Iron"

 

John "Huggy Bear" Ruiz.

 

'The Dutch Sonny Liston'

 

Friday............ The 13th... Ahunanya........

 

A Dallas Times Herald sports writer used to call Floyd "Falling Floyd Patterson".

Floyd was a decent man and tried his best...I never liked the bad remarks about him.

 

Hearns was known as the Motor City Cobra first.

Then became "The Hitman".

I remember when they put out that photo of
Hearns dressed up in a hoodlum suit & hat, ....and carrying
a Tommy-gun.

 

Some that stood out for me as being accurate as well as striking:

"The Wild Bull of the Pampas"

"Bombardier Bob Satterfield"

"The Pottawatomie Giant"

"The Pittsburg Windmill"

"The Manassa Mauler"

And some that were colorful but might not fit or mean anything

"Tiger Jones"

"Tombstone Smith"

"The Singular Senegalese"

"The Harlem Harlequin"

"Baby Face"

"The Fargo Express"

"The Shasta Blaster"

 

And the outright off the walls

"The Harlem Coffee Cooler"

"The Kentucky Rosebud"

"Tanglefoot Tommy"

"The French Flash"--perhaps in itself not a bad nickname, but holding it was Benny Vulgar, a Jewish lad from Brooklyn.

"Scotch Wop" Is this or is this not politically incorrect?

"The Tipton Slasher"

"The Benecia Boy"

"The Dark Shadow of Leiperville"--probably the all time worst nickname as it is politically incorrect as all hell and inaccurate to boot. It refers to Leiperville, Pennsylvania but belonged to George Godfrey of Georgia who never stepped foot in Leiperville. His manager came from Leiperville, however, and thus the connection and the odd nickname.

 

"The Louisville Lip" AKA "Gaseous Cassius".

Archie Moore said he had developed a Lip Zipper punch before
they met in the ring.

 

Larry "Easton Assasin" Holmes.

"Smokin" Joe Frazier

"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler