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Adam "Swamp Donkey" Richards.

The Best Ever. Self Explanatory

Leroy 'The Molester' Hester

Larry "Car Trouble" Bouldersleeve
The Tennessee Trouble Maker Bob Sweeney
Otto "15% Tipper" Gagne
Patrice "The Lavender Lickspittle" Trembley

Might have been already posted but Motor City Kobra for Thomas Hearns is my favorite. He somehow had the face, personality and style to go with it.

I also like the more poetic nicknames like "The Old Mongoose" for Archie Moore and "The Cinderella Man" for Jimmy Bradock

oogiebe wrote: ↑23 Oct 2023, 13:22

sibbo wrote: ↑23 Oct 2023, 11:10 Ronald 'Lobster' Thermidor

True!?

100%true

chinarich wrote: ↑11 Apr 2023, 12:31 James 'Lights Out' Toney
Glen 'The Road Warrior' Johnson
Julius 'The Towering Inferno' Long

and, to venture into the bizarre for the moment, that journeyman American heavyweight with the moniker 'The Southern Disaster'

Dominic Guinn I think is the Southern Disaster if my memory serves me, Tim Tzuyu has a good one that I like which is the 'Soultaker'

There is one man who doesn't need a nickname:
Chancellor Battenberg
https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/857202

joshj909 wrote: ↑21 Nov 2023, 17:16 There is one man who doesn't need a nickname:
Chancellor Battenberg
https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/857202

i looked him up to see what a 6'1 super feather looks like........apparently he's also a music youtuber

At one point they tried to give a new persona to Lance Whittaker and so called him "Goofi" and figured they'd have this 6'8' whatver intimidating looking hw contender play off.....I dunno, cuteness and silliness?
I swear this happened kids, ask your dad, he may remember, though to this day it just feels like I used to drink way too much.
So that's my vote for best all time: Lance "Goofi" (with an i please, we don't need to get sued here) Whittaker.

A girl in my high school had no legs. Her nickname was shark attack

That was the best nickname

Jeff_lacy_ko wrote: ↑29 Mar 2025, 01:57 A girl in my high school had no legs. Her nickname was shark attack

That was the best nickname

My then cat got run over and his pelvis got broke, the vet fixed him and when we got him back, my father-in-law called him pancake.

Just watched a good ol Buster Keaton film 'Battling Butler' and there was a nice one - The Alabama Murderer. The nickname Wilder dreams of...

jack 'sock it' sprocket