What's your favourite sports NICKNAME?

[Indiana Sev]

Air Jordan, Karl "The Mailman" Malone, The Great One, Slammin' Sammy, Dr.J, The Refrigerator Perry, etc.

There are many nickname's in all the different sports (NHL,MLB,NFL, NBA, European football,etc.), so my question is...

What's your fave?






I'm still undecided, I'll have to return to answer this one...

[free]

I like the one's Chris "Boomer" Berman gives players.

I always liked Sammy "say it ain't" Sosa.

[FeverDog420]

The Yankees' starting rotation last season was Rocket, Boomer, Moose, El Duque and Pipes. I thought that was pretty cool.

[paul calf]

jake(the bronx bull) la motta

roberto(hands of stone)duran

(marvelous) marvin hagler

tommy(the hitman)hearns

[Morgana]

Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini

[James Logan]

There's a lot of fun ones (especially in basketball and baseball), but Air Jordan is a classic.

It'd tie as my favorite with another classic: Earvin "Magic" Johnson. I mean, loads of people don't even know the man's first name is Earvin -- he's just Magic.

[AnnoyingQuestionAsker]

By far the most hilarious one must be "He Hate Me" from the XFL

[Grebdron]

Bert (Be Home) Blyleven

[bob]

St. Patrick-Patrick Roy
Peter the Great-Peter Forsberg
Cujo-Curtis Joseph

[Morgana]

Originally posted by bob
St. Patrick-Patrick Roy
Peter the Great-Peter Forsberg
Cujo-Curtis Joseph

Good ones, bob.


I just remembered a couple more...

Eddie "the Eagle" Belfour. Or, "crazy" Eddie, if you prefer.

Dominik "the Dominator" Hasek. (Didn't like Hasek too much, but I thought his nickname was cool.)

[bmain77]

James "Buddha" Edwards-baseketball player a few years ago. Was known to hit the bong a few times, thus the name.

"The Little Ball of Hate" Pat Verbeek-talk about a classic nickname...i think there is someone else with that name

Air Jordan is a classic and perhaps the most fitting nickname of them all

How could I forget the William " the Refridgerator" Perry

[PapaJupe2k]

If you've got a refridgerator you need ex-Piston Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson.

Olympic skier Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards.

He's worth mentioning again, XFL standout "He Hate Me" (no real name needed.)

Former Wisconsin qb Jack Thompson "The Throwin Samoan".

Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark "The Bird" Fydrich.

[teenkiller]

Chuck "The Ice Man" Liddel. In fact the UFC has a lot of good ones. Diego "Nightmare Sanches, Jeff "The Snoman" Monson, Tim "The Maniac" Silva, Marcus "The Irish Hand Grenade" Davis... The list goes on and on. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[MidnightAngel]

Ray Boom Boom Mancini

[RandalGraves]

Ocho Cinco

[a7xfan]

chuck 'the ice man' liddel, and i think (even tho i hate him) that mourinho's 'the special one' is hilarious.

[MidnightAngel]

Roberto Mano de Piedra(stone fist)Duran
George The Animal Steele

[Mr. Creasy]

Michael Jordan - 'Air Jordan'
Earving Johnson - 'Magic'
Stephan Bonnar - 'American Psycho'
Quinton Jackson - 'Rampage'
David Ortiz - 'Big Papi' (even I hate the Red Sucks tho)

[hasselbrad]

Paul "Bear" Bryant.
He wrestled a bear to get the nickname. You could say William Perry wrestled a refrigerator to get his, but then, it obviously didn't give up much of a fight.
Other favorites are...
Walter "Sweetness" Payton
Gale "The Kansas Comet" Sayers
Charles "The Round Mound of Rebound" Barkley
Art "Fatso" Donovan
"Slingin'" Sammy Baugh
"Bantam" Ben Hogan
Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds
Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker

[PSU80]

KID DYNAMITE

[Darth Kenshin]

Christian "The Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye (recently stolen by Sam Peter)
Joel "Love Child" Julio

[SweetEnLow]

Andrei “The Pitbull” Arlovski
The Last Emperor - Fedor Emelianenko
Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
"The Admiral" David Robinson
The Big Fundamental – Tim Duncan - Don't know how many people call him this, I think Shaq came up with it.

[Cosimo]

Originally Posted by Darth Kenshin

Christian "The Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye

classic, saw him on nfl top 10 power backs couple weeks back

[hasselbrad]

The most fitting nickname has to be John "The Beast" Mugabi.
I saw him fight at the USF Sundome back in the late 1980s. He had won 33 bouts and lost 3... all of them by knockout.
Easiest job ever... judge at a fight "The Beast" was in.

Lance "Bambi" Alworth
"Broadway" Joe Namath
Ken "Snake" Stabler
Robin "Speedbag" Ventura (not one he's proud of, but then he did charge Nolan Ryan)
Greg "The Professor" Maddux
Randy "Manster" White
Cornelius "Biscuit" Bennett
Greg "The Shark" Norman
Jack "The Golden Bear" Nicklaus
"Slammin'" Sam Snead

[BubbaStrangelove]

USC quarterback Mark "Dirty" Sanchez.

[BlownCamaro]

The Big Unit - Randy Johnson
A-Roid - Alex Rodriguez

[X-Nightcrawler]

"The Dean of Mean" always makes me crack up.

[Cosimo]

evander "the real deal" holyfield

[xseanymacx]

Calvin Johnson, WR DET - Megatron (my absolute favorite across all sports)

Dustin Pedroia, 2B BOS - Pedroia the Destroya

Shane Victorino, CF PHI - The Flyin' Hawaiian

Brian Dawkins, S DEN (PHI fame) - Weapon X

[Darth Kenshin]

Originally Posted by xseanymacx

Calvin Johnson, WR DET - Megatron (my absolute favorite across all sports)

hahahaha... I never heard him referred to as Megatron. That's awesome.

[HurricanesR1]

no mention of Darnell "Ding-A-Ling Man" Wilson?

^he's a boxer for those who don't know him.

[redtequilla5]

Phi Slamma Jama- University of Houston Cougars team of 82'-84'
Hakeem "The Dream" Olajoun
Gary "The Glove" Payton
Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain