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Rocky(Marciano)

Sugar(Ray Robinson)

Mantequilla

Syntax Error wrote:1) Andrew 'SIX HEADS' Lewis - original & never bettered IMO.

2) Paul 'SCRAP IRON' Ryan.

I knew a cop nicknamed "Seven heads." They reckoned he needed that many heads to be that ugly.

dagosd2000 wrote:Rocky(Marciano)

Sugar(Ray Robinson)

Mantequilla

Rocky was a form of "Rocco", Marciano's real name being Rocco Marchegiano. It was changed because his manager could not pronounce it.

Luis "Lumumba" Estaba.

Luis "El Feo" (the ugly one) Rodriguez.

Ezzard wrote:Michael "Second To" Nunn

and

Slapsie Maxie

slapsie maxie always makes me smile as well, especially when you check the record, its almost unbelievable to think he actually has that few stoppages.

who would call themselves "Half Man" and expect people not to laugh is what I want to know. "Brown Bomber" take out of context sounds like something conceived after heavy dinner.

The winner: "The Human Freight Car"

Can't take life too seriously with that

I've always loved the poetic sound of "The Motor City Cobra".

Other two nicknames that I like:

Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles
Ricardo "Finito" Lopez

Funniest one I ever heard was a '70s NY heavyweight by the name of Barry Funches, whom they would call, Barry "bunches of punches" Funches.

Scartissue

The Mongoose. Sorry I forgot you the first time Arch.

scartissue wrote:Funniest one I ever heard was a '70s NY heavyweight by the name of Barry Funches, whom they would call, Barry "bunches of punches" Funches.

Scartissue

I remember that one. Very funny name.

Anyone remember Jim "Kool Aid" Jones .
The worst one Ive heard. Morbid.

Expug wrote:

scartissue wrote:Funniest one I ever heard was a '70s NY heavyweight by the name of Barry Funches, whom they would call, Barry "bunches of punches" Funches.

Scartissue

I remember that one. Very funny name.

Anyone remember Jim "Kool Aid" Jones .
The worst one Ive heard. Morbid.

Ohhhh! Didn't get the connotation until I dropped the nickname. When did he fight? Another cool one I recall was that super-bantam from Argentina named Pedro Decima, whom they called 'The Decimator'. Not too bad at all.

Scartissue

scartissue wrote:

Expug wrote:

scartissue wrote:Funniest one I ever heard was a '70s NY heavyweight by the name of Barry Funches, whom they would call, Barry "bunches of punches" Funches.

Scartissue

I remember that one. Very funny name.

Anyone remember Jim "Kool Aid" Jones .
The worst one Ive heard. Morbid.

Ohhhh! Didn't get the connotation until I dropped the nickname. When did he fight? Another cool one I recall was that super-bantam from Argentina named Pedro Decima, whom they called 'The Decimator'. Not too bad at all.

Scartissue

Kool Aid was I think a heavyweight out of NY in the eighties maybe early nineties.

Shannon 'The Cannon' Briggs

for me nothing beats the hitman

I am fond of the picturesque nickname of a popular Haitian fighter of the 1930's: Papacito Kid.

Captain Cleopas Marvel

I always like Tony Longoria's nickname - "The Bell-to-Bell Bomber."

enrique wrote:I am fond of the picturesque nickname of a popular Haitian fighter of the 1930's: Papacito Kid.

Enrique,

Does that name have a meaning?

Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns
James “Lights-Out” Toney

I rescind my vote. Mitch Hold My Beer Hicks is the best nickname in history. I don't know who the guy is but no one else comes close

In response to Granberry:

A papacito is a pampered male lover, a gigolo, a don juan, a mellow fellow.

Papacito Kid was a popular Caribbean fighter in his time.

sugar

It wasn't a nickname, but Elvis Parsley had the best name ever for a boxer. Maybe the best name ever, period!

revporl wrote:It wasn't a nickname, but Elvis Parsley had the best name ever for a boxer. Maybe the best name ever, period!

There was another fellow in the British ranks at around the same time - Chris P Bacon.

I kid you not.

Then there was Slugger O'Toole. Real name Fidel Castro Smith.