Weird and extraordinary nicknames over the years..

[Anthony342]

The Million Dollar Douchebag Floyd Mayweather.

[Mintcar923]

Renaldo "Mister" Snipes.. James "Buster" Douglas.. "Irish" Mickey Ward.. Bruce "Atlantic City Express" Seldon..

[PAC-BOY]

Pretty Boy Floyd! :gay:

[NChristo]

Pretty Boy Floyd! :gay:

Always thought he took the name from the gangster 'Pretty Boy' Floyd of the depression era, in which case the name is actually pretty dope.

[Anthony342]

Yeah he did and then changed his nickname to Money.

[Ray Corso]

Jerry "Whimpy" Halstead Marlon "Magic Man" Starling
Ken "the Hamden Hammer" Schmidt
Carmen "the Onion Farmer" Basilio
Steve "the Fighting Mailman" Snow
Troy "School Boy" Wortham
Mark "Two Sharp" Johnson
Iran "the Blade" Barkley
James "Hard Rock" Green
Evert "Bigfoot" Martin
Willie "Wil of the Wisp" Pep

heres a few fellows I knew and a few I worked with through the years.
Ray.

[saintpat]

I think there was one called The Fighting Postman.

Always thought a good nickname for a French or French Canadian boxer would be The French Tickler.

Electro for someone electrifying or even The Shocker could work. Maybe The Cleveland Steamer. Just ones I'd like to see haha.

Baby for Joe Mesi was an interesting one. Or maybe a boxer named Richard could be nicknamed Big ****. Pro wrestler **** Slater was nicknamed The Rebel in WWF, but I remember going to an independent show at a high school gym and seeing him given the nickname Dirty ****, which gave the kids in the audience a good chuckle.

One of the Dudleys in ECW was Big **** Dudley. And the gimmick was that all the Dudleys were half-brothers -- their pop having produced offspring with many different women -- so they had a Native American one for a short time known as Dances With Dudley.

But back to boxing ...

Sweet Pea Whitaker -- great origin, Pernell's friends called him Pete and at a national amateur tournament in his hometown area the crowd was chanting "Sweet Pete" and a reporter misunderstood it and called him Sweet Pea in his story, and it stuck.

Lenny and Ray Mancini, the two Boom Booms

Andy Gannigan, the Hawaiian Punch

Chuck Wepner, the Bayonne Bleeder

And, from the movies, Apollo Creed ... The Count of Monte Fisto

[sonnyboyx2]

The Louisville Lip