Least threatening boxer nicknames

Glass Joe from Punch Out.

 

The Rabbit - Floyd Patterson

The Acorn - Earnie Shavers

 

Sugar Ray Clay Jones Junior
The Punching Postman
Quick Tillis
Vito the Mosquito

 

I think the media labeled him that. In his pre-Ali days I also remember some reporter calling him 'Gaseous Cassius'. Presumably, again, for his talkative nature rather than any bowel impediment (Oh, man, I knew I shouldn't have eaten all that cabbage)

 

It should be noted, however, that The Rabbit, The Acorn and as @williams0504 mentioned, 'Vito the Mosquito' weren't actually nicknames, but name-calling.

 

Thulane "Sugar Boy" Malinga never really struck fear in my heart.

 

Big Baby

 

Earnie actually adopted the Acorn later on in his career

 

Winky Wright must've been named after Winky Dink, the American children's TV character of the 1950s.

 

His own original nickname for himself was The Black Destroyer though, wasn't it?

 

Think it was but after Ali nicknamed that he embraced it probably the only fighter to do so Ali's names weren't the nicest some included the ugly bear, the gorrilla, the rabbit, the mummy funniest probably Dracula referring to Spinks gap tooth

 

The one that has stuck in the conscience is ‘The Bear,’ for Liston. People think that was really his nickname, when in fact, he was if anything known in his time as, ‘The Night Train.’

 

School Boy Bobby Chacon and Ray Windmill White.

 

I like The Mummy. It's a good description of that style of defense.