Best Sports Nicknames

[Paulie]

Manny Ramiroids

 

[Truthspeaker]

Air France
~Mikael Pietrus

 

[Truthspeaker]

The Big Fundamental
~Tim Duncan

 

[Charles Stucker]

"The Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig

 

[Truthspeaker]

The Truth
~Paul Pierce

 

[BolshevikHunter]

William "Bar none" Floyd

~BH

 

[Oddball]

Jim "Shaky" Eisenreich.

That was just sick and wrong.

 

[BolshevikHunter]

Chuck "The Ice Man" Lidell

~BH

 

[Charles Stucker]

Joe Louis "The Brown Bomber"

 

[BolshevikHunter]

Hector "Macho" Comancho

LOL!!!!!!!!!! Didn't that dude kill some guy in the ring? ~BH

 

[Charles Stucker]

Andre the Giant
With Honorable mention to
Arnold "Bodybuilding is Also a Sport" Schwarzenegger
and
Sean "James Bond" Connery

 

[Truthspeaker]

The Freak
~ Javon Kearse

 

[Oddball]

Jim "Gumby" Gantner

 

[Charles Stucker]

Jack Dempsey "The Manassa Mauler"

Is it unfair bringing up guys I read about in History of Sports?
I'll promise not to look up my old prof, who specialized in Classical Sports, and run you through Greek Olympians and Roman Gladiators - he had a list of 60 or so that he had actually gotten something like a bio sketch from diverse documents. Most had nicknames.

 

[Dr Grump]

The Brick With Eyes - Glenn Lazarus

 

[Dr Grump]

Spud - Mark Carroll (also Russell Crowe bodyguard)

 

[B L Zeebub]

English Soccer goalkeeper, Tommy "Dracula" Lawrence, he could not deal with crosses.

 

[Charles Stucker]

Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain

 

[Truthspeaker]

The Big Dipper
~ Said Chamberlain

 

[Charles Stucker]

The Sultan of Swat
aforementioned Babe Ruth