Greatest Nickname of All Time?

My personal favorite is "The Explosive Thin Man"....creative, unique and has a nice ring to it.

Second would go to "Las Manos De Piedra"...not as creative or unique, but again a nice ring to it Sounds cool to say and whatnot.

And bronze goes to 'El Intociable"...great name, and very relevant to the carrier.

 

Dutch Sam, aka "The Terrible Jew"

Sam Langford aka "The Boston Tar Baby"

can you imagine such names existing now??

unreal

 

Oh dear god. ::

 

I know there a bunch of other racist nicknames that I just cant think of right now, but man some of the sobriquets put on the black fighters of the early 20th century are just so wrong

"Brown Bomber" is horrendous enough, but that is MILD compared to some of the earlier ones

I mean 'Boston TAR BABY"??? are you fucking kidding me???

thats like having a guy called the "Springfield Spearchucker", "Portland Porch Monkey" or the "New Jersey N**ger"

so awful

 

:::laughing:

 

Michael "Second To" Nunn
Donovan "Razor" Ruddock
Iron Mike Tyson
Mike "The Body Snatcher" McCallum
Smokin' Joe Frazier

are some of my favorites

 

You forgot Stanley "The Black Assassin" Ketchel

 

Yeah, that's a great one..

 

Owen "what the heck" Beck was funny.

 

ding a ling man

 

There is more to the Tar Baby moniker than you realise, here. It is not purely inspired from racist overtones, & has a more PC-friendly intention.

Anyway, tough to pinpoint one, but I always loved, "The Toy Bulldog" --- both the name, & the fighter. "The Atomic Bull," &, "The Dark Destroyer" are rather ominous. "The Explosive Thin Man" translates poorly into English & sounds terrible, IMO.

 

Henry 'Sugar Poo' Buchanan:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

Mantequilla is a really beautiful one. Some great ones listed so far, keep 'em coming! We should get a pool of all candidates then vote a fightbeat top 10 and post it on the homepage!

 

^^^Good idea.

 

i like Froch the cock