Boxers with no nicknames

[BKM-2010]

As the title says. I can't even think of any at the moment.

Follow up question: around what era of the sport did nick names become popular and became part of it?

[Scott9945]

Lennox Lewis never really had a nickname. I can't remember one for Roy Jones either.

As to your second question, nicknames are as old as boxing as far as I know.

[jas]

Lennox Lewis never really had a nickname. I can't remember one for Roy Jones either.

As to your second question, nicknames are as old as boxing as far as I know.

lennox THE LION lewis?

roy jones is a great shout

[Scott9945]

lennox THE LION lewis?

roy jones is a great shout

I don't remember Lennox being introduced as "The Lion" by the ring announcer. That would be my criteria.

[GeneralZod]

Sonny Liston. His real name is Charles of course, but Sonny was given to him as a child if you count it.

Julio Cesar Chavez
Gene Tunney
their nicknames aren't commonly used at least

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Sonny Liston. His real name is Charles of course, but Sonny was given to him as a child if you count it.

Julio Cesar Chavez
Gene Tunney
their nicknames aren't commonly used at least

Chavez was always "el grande champion" or at least after the taylor fight.. All the fights in the 90s he was always introduced as the "el grand champion"

[billeau2]

when choosing a nickname one should be aware of the tendency for names to become "dated." Today the "Terror Kowalski" may sound positively brutal but tomorrow? "The nonparal, the game chicken", the list goes on and on


Best to choose something with universal appeal.

[Scott9945]

Sonny Liston. His real name is Charles of course, but Sonny was given to him as a child if you count it.

Julio Cesar Chavez
Gene Tunney
their nicknames aren't commonly used at least

I think that Tunney's nickname was "The Fighting Marine". But that was way before my time so I can't put it in any real context as to whether it was regularly used.

[GeneralZod]

I think that Tunney's nickname was "The Fighting Marine". But that was way before my time so I can't put it in any real context as to whether it was regularly used.

that is in fact his name, i've just never heard him addressed as it.

[SBleeder]

Harold Brazier
Tony Canzoneri
Ali for much of his career
D1ck Tiger
Marvelous Marvin Hagler became Hagler's legal name, so the
"Marvelous" technically wasn't a nickname