Inspired by Richard M. Murrieta's Thread in Classic. As the title says, Muhammad gets to fight them all AND he gets to nickname them all before the fight. You may include Alphabet Belt Holders if you wish. What would some of those nicknames be? I will start. In Sports News, Revived Muhammad Ali signs to fight Revived John L. Sullivan, in a twelve round glove fight. At the Pre-fight press conference, Ali angered Sullivan by calling him "The Rooster." Drew Bundini Brown made matters worse when he tossed the Rooster he was holding in Sullivan's general direction. Chaos soon ensued.
Alternatively, he calls Sullivan "the beercan" because he's "a round little guy full of booze." Dempsey would be "the hobo," for reasons related to his past, his crude looking style to Ali's eyes, and to deflate Jack's million dollar fighter mystique. Tunney gets called "Encyclopedia Brown" or some similar reference to a pop-culture annoying nerd from the 1960s. Schmeling is going to be "the Nazi" whether he likes it or not. Vitali would likely be dubbed "Frankenstein," with a few comments about how he should challenge "Mummy" Foreman. Ali dubs Wlad "the Bride of Frankenstein" after seeing the weird incest-subtext pictures the brothers took, and noting how Vitali is always defending Wlad's honor. Ali probably enlists a friendly reporter to help him match insults in the press with Tyson Fury (like he used one to write the Liston poem.) I could see him calling Marciano something like, "the Caveman," since the two got along well, and there's a backhanded compliment to Marciano's toughness and strength built into it. We already know Holmes. Tyson...I don't even know where to start. The guy is just a walking "kick me" sign for someone like Ali. Lisp, short, a kid...good grief. Holyfield gets called "the billygoat" or similar due to his butting and Ali's desire to present Holyfield as a brainlessly brawling foil.