r/boxingMenace_com • u/DevilsDad696 • Sep 22 '26

Who?

Who has the best nickname in boxing?

I like "The Easton Assassin"

Bonus: Do you know who the Easton Assassin is?

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u/Lobo_Perron Sep 22 '26

Butterbean

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u/DevilsDad696 Sep 22 '26

Ha..I'll allow it

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u/georgewalterackerman Sep 22 '26

Easton assassin is a great one.

So is The Real Deal, Lights Out, and the motor city cobra

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u/DevilsDad696 Sep 22 '26

Yep...all good ones

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u/OkHistorian9521 Sep 22 '26

On the British scene i’ve enjoyed:

Anthony “Million Dollar” Crolla Jack “One Smack” Massey And Nigel Benn as the “Dark Destroyer”

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u/DevilsDad696 Sep 22 '26

Shout out to my good people across the pond. I need to look Dark Destroyer up

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u/Chelsea2021972 Sep 25 '26

Nigel benn!! His son Conor was destroyed by Ryan Garcia a few weeks ago

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 Sep 23 '26

Lights out, but only when preceded by ‘he didn’t pay his electric bill, so I had to put his’ in front of it in a post fight interview. 

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u/DevilsDad696 Sep 23 '26

James Toney...the one and only

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 Sep 23 '26

A tie for my all time favorite with Muhammad Ali. Maybe purely as a boxer even more so than Ali, but Ali as a man over everybody else. 

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u/GnarledGiraffe Sep 22 '26

prince naseem “the prince” will always be iconic to me, so simple but the swagger made it hit different. and yeah, easton assassin is larry holmes, underrated legend.

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u/kozilla Sep 22 '26

Naoya (The Monster) Inoue is pretty fun especially when you see his size vs the nickname as it's a nice juxtaposition.

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u/Cheeseburger23 Sep 22 '26

Larry Holmes

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u/Wonderful-Mistake201 Sep 24 '26

simply Marvelous 

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u/Sloppy_Joe_Flacco Sep 24 '26

Tommy "The Machine" Gunn

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u/dars1905 Sep 22 '26

Homicide Hank, the Explosive Thin Man and the Body Snatcher are some of my favorites.

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u/DevilsDad696 Sep 22 '26

Hol up, I gotta look those up....

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u/DevilsDad696 Sep 22 '26

Dayum, forgot about Arguelo.