Well known/popular Boxers without a nickname?

Sounds good.

Might I also volunteer The Thunder Down Under. OR…..

Andrew “Tchaikovsky” Golota - The Nutcracker.

I better stop now before anyone gets teste with me.

 

Betulio Gonzalez, probably his country's most famous boxer, never got one that I know of.

 

I don’t know that Foreman had a nick that gained any traction in his first career. Ali disparagingly called him the Mummy of course but that was just Ali.

Of course in his second incarnation he was known as Big George, The Punching Preacher, etc.

Ken Norton, which I later learned but don’t recall in reading/hearing in real time was called The Black Hercules.

I remember “Snortin’ “ Kenny Norton very well though - apt since he hailed from the same stable as Smokin’ Joe Frazier. A lot of smokin’ and snortin’ going down there.

Another one for Max Baer: The Magnificent Screwball.

Liston didn’t have a real nick did he? - not until Ali labelled him the Big Ugly Bear - unless Liston was referred to as The Bear or a Bear prior to that. Otherwise, we have “Sonny”, a nick apparently bestowed upon him as a young man during his stay at the house of many doors.

More recent stuff - while Tim (Timofei) Tszyu is being called the Soul Taker I believe, Kosta Tszyu’s other son, Nikita, who’s now a pro boxer is being labelled as The Butcher. LOL.

When asked how he felt about this, Nikita said in a very matter of fact manner that he doesn’t believe in nicknames, he only believes in the name his parents gave him - but he said people can call him The Butcher if they want - he doesn’t care.

Funny thing, Butch is the opposite to Femme in French. So the youngest Tszyu could’ve been called Le Butch Nikita. LOL.

Merely putting “Butch” into your name instantly makes it VERY not so. Ha!!

 

YEAH

 

Wasn’t he called “The Lion of Culiacan “ ?

 

Not that I recall but I may be forgetting.

I can see Lampley or someone calling him something like that, but don’t remember him being introduced as such or any nickname catching on.

 

When did Jersey Joe change his name to patrizio?

 

Anthony Joshua, AJ is just his initials

 

I thought fans called him the bodybuilder?

 

Back in the day quite a few nicks were sourced from prior/ongoing vocations such as The Boilermaker, The Fighting Blacksmith, Sailor, Fireman, Plasterer, Gob etc. Still some cases of same later, like the Fighting Marine for Ken Norton but perhaps not so common? unless the vocation sounded cool - and Marine obviously does.

Imagine a promo announcing: Sugar Ray Leonard vs Larry “The Sanitation Worker” Bonds. Not necessarily a compelling qualification for the challenger.

Actually, the actor Sean Connery did some boxing in his youth - apparently not too bad either. Sean also literally worked for a coffin maker - I guess that wouldn’t have been a bad Nick - “The Coffin Maker”.

 

Lennox Lewis

 

Jersey Patrizio Walcott has a nice ring to it.