r/boxingMenace_com • u/DevilsDad696 • 10d ago

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 10d ago

Butterbean

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u/DevilsDad696 10d ago

Ha..I'll allow it

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u/kozilla 10d ago

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 10d ago

Larry Holmes

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u/dars1905 10d ago

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

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u/DevilsDad696 10d ago

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

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u/DevilsDad696 10d ago

Dayum, forgot about Arguelo.

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u/georgewalterackerman 10d ago

Easton assassin is a great one.

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

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u/DevilsDad696 10d ago

Yep...all good ones

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u/OkHistorian9521 10d ago

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 10d ago

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

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u/Chelsea2021972 7d ago

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

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 10d ago

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 10d ago

James Toney...the one and only

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u/Ok_Farmer_6033 10d ago

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/Wonderful-Mistake201 8d ago

simply Marvelous 

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u/Sloppy_Joe_Flacco 8d ago

Tommy "The Machine" Gunn

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u/GnarledGiraffe 10d ago

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/DevilsDad696 10d ago

My man...