List of Sportspeople By Nickname - Boxing

Boxing

• "A-Force" = Audley Harrison
• "A-Pack" = Audley Harrison
• "Ace" = Ada Vélez
• "All-American Girl" = Vonda Ward
• "Audinary" = Audley Harrison (intended to be an insult by Frank Warren)
• "Audrey" = Audley Harrison
• "Baby Doll" = Elena Reid
• "Baby Girl" = Leatitia Robinson
• "The Baby-Faced Assassin" = Marco Antonio Barrera
• "Bad Intentions" = Jermain Taylor
• "The Bayonne Bleeder" = Chuck Wepner
• "Bazooka" =
  • Wilfredo Gómez
  • Rafael Limón
  • Ike Quartey
• "The Beast Of The East" = Nikolai Valuev
• "Big Bad John" = John McDermott
• "Big Cat" = Cleveland Williams
• "Big Daddy" = Riddick Bowe
• "Big George" = George Foreman
• "The Bionic Man" = Gerrie Coetzee
• "The Body-Snatcher" = Mike McCallum
• "Bobo" = Carl Olson
• "The Boilermaker" = James J. Jeffries
• "The Brownsville Bum" = Al "Bummy" Davis
• "Le bombardier marocain" (French for "The Moroccan Bomber") = Marcel Cerdan
• "Bomber" = Herol Graham
• "Bonecrusher" = James Smith
• "Boogaloo" = Bobby Watts
• "Boom Boom" = Ray Mancini
• "Boston Bonecrusher" = Sam Langford
• "The Boston Strong Boy" = John L. Sullivan
• "Boston Tar Baby" = Sam Langford
• "Boston Terror" = Sam Langford
• "British Bulldog" = Brian London
• "The Brockton Blockbuster" = Rocky Marciano
• "The Bronx Bomber" = Alex Ramos
• "The Buff Bastard" = Adam David Greenen
• "The Bronx Bull" = Jake LaMotta
• "The Brown Bomber" = Joe Louis
• "Bubba" = James Busceme
• "Buddy" = James McGirt
• "Bulldog of Bergen" = James W. Braddock
• "Buster" = James Douglas
• "Butterbean" = Eric Esch
• "Chico" = Diego Corrales
• "Cinderella Man" = James W. Braddock
• "The Clones Cyclone" = Finbar "Barry" McGuigan
• "Corn" = John Griffin
• "The Destroyer" = Manny Pacquiao
• "Dr. Iron Fist" = Vitali Klitschko
• "Downtown" = Leona Brown
• "Dynamite" = Michael Dokes
• "The Easton Assassin" = Larry Holmes
• "The Executioner" = Bernard Hopkins
• "El Ferroz" (Spanish for "Ferocious") = Fernando Vargas
• "The Fighting Cowboy" = James Tillis
• "Fireman Jim" = James Flynn
• "Fist of Steel" = Chevelle Hallback
• "Fraudley" = Audley Harrison (intended to be an insult by Frank Warren)
• "The Foul Pole" = Andrew Golota (from his involvement in many controversial fights)
• "Gentleman" = Gerry Cooney
• "Gentleman Jim" = James J. Corbett
• "The Ghost" = Kelly Pavlik
• "The Godfather" = Michael Gibbons
• "The Golden Boy" = Billy Walker
• "The Golden Boy" = Oscar De La Hoya
• "The Great White Hope" = James J. Jeffries
• "The Greatest" = Muhammad Ali
• "Guts" = Ishimatsu Suzuki
• "Hammer" = Juan Roldán
• "The Hawk" = Aaron Pryor
• "Hercules" = Mike Weaver
• "The Hit Man" =
  • Ricky Hatton
  • Thomas Hearns
• "Honey Girl" = Louis Del Valle (named because of a reputation for being able to slip punches from opponents, self given)
• "Honey Girl" = Melissa Del Valle (given in deference to her brother)
• "Hurricane" = Rubin Carter
• "Iron Mike" = Mike Tyson
• "The Italian Dragon" = Joe Calzaghe
• "The Italian Giant" = Primo Carnera
• "Jersey Joe" = Joe Walcott
• "Jinx" = Michael Spinks
• "Junior" = Roy Jones Jr.
• "Kid Thunder" = Shane Sutcliffe
• "Kostya" = Konstantin Tszyu
• "Left Hook" = Jeff Lacy
• "Lights Out" = James Toney
• "The Little Big Man" = Sharmba Mitchell
• "Little Chocolate" = George Dixon
• "Little Hands of Stone" = Michael Carbajal
• "The Living Death" = Lew Jenkins
• "Locomotora" (Spanish for "Locomotive") = Jorge Castro
• "The Lone Star Cobra" = Donald Curry
• "The Louisville Lip" = Muhammad Ali
• "Macho" = Héctor Camacho
• "Mad Dog" = Gene Hatcher
• "Magic Man" =
  • Paul Malignaggi
  • Antonio Tarver
• "The Manassa Mauler" = Jack Dempsey
• "Manos de Piedra"' (Spanish for "Hands of Stone") = Roberto Durán
• "Mantequilla" (Spanish for "Butter") = José Nápoles
• "The Marrickville Mauler" Geoff Fenech
• "Marvelous Marvin" = Marvin Hagler
• "The Mexi-cutioner" = Manny Pacquiao
• "Michigan Assassin" = Stanley Ketchel
• "Miracle Matthew" = Matthew Saad Muhammad
• "Morocho" = Carlos Hernández
• "The Motor City Cobra" = Thomas Hearns
• "The Mouse" = Bruce Strauss
• "The Mystery Lady" = Shondell Alfred
• "Nigerian Nightmare"= Samuel Peter
• "Neon Leon" = Leon Spinks
• "The Old Mongoose" = Archie Moore
• "Ordinary" = Audley Harrison (intended to be an insult by Frank Warren)
• "Pacman (the Destroyer)" = Manny Pacquiao
• "Pambansang Kamao" ("National Fist") = Manny Pacquiao
• "The Pazmanian Devil" = Vinny Paz, itself a contraction of his birth name of Pazienza
• "The People's Champion" = Manny Pacquiao
• "Peppermint" = Alfonso Frazer
• "Pipino" = José Cuevas
• "The Pocket Rocket" = Wayne McCullough
• "La Poeta de Ring" = Laura Serrano
• "Pretty Boy" = Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
• "Prince" = Naseem Hamed
• "Quick" = James Tillis
• "The Quiet Man" = John Ruiz
• "Quitschko" = Vitali Klitschko
• "The Radar" = Wilfred Benítez
• "The Ragamuffin Man" = Lloyd Honeyghan
• "Raging Bull" =
  • Vic Darchinyan
  • Jake LaMotta
• "Razor" = Donovan Ruddock
• "The Real Deal" = Evander Holyfield
• "Salsero" = Alfredo Escalera
• "Second to Nunn" = Michael Nunn
• "Smokin' Joe" = Joe Frazier
• "Stay-Lo" = Stacey Reile
• "Steelhammer" = Wladimir Klitschko
• "Sugar" =
  • Carlos De León
  • Shane Mosley
  • Ray Leonard (Leonard reportedly disliked it, believing only Robinson deserved "Sugar Ray")
• "Sugar Ray Robinson" = pseudonym for Walker Smith, Jr.
• "Sweet T" = Michael Torres
• "El Temible" (Spanish, The Feared) = José Luis Castillo
• "Termite" = Maurice Watkins
• "El Terrible" = Erik Morales
• "Terrible" = Tim Witherspoon
• "Thunder" = Arturo Gatti
• "Thunder from Down Under" = Konstantin "Kostya" Tszyu
• "Tiger" = Dariusz Michalczewski
• "TNT" = Tony Tubbs
• "The Truth" = Carl Williams
• "The Vegas" = Hannah Fox
• "The Wild Bull of the Pampa" = Luis Firpo
• "Winky" = Ronald Wright
• "The Mauritian Magician" = Bruno Julie