What should my fighting name be

I didn't really care for it that much, but people really started to like it. So if it works, it works. It was a stroke of ingenuity. Fundora feels his fighting style fits the name, despite still never having seen the movie. He feels his high punch rate makes sense with the moniker that first grew on him when he started fighting on television.

Now one of the rising junior middleweight prospects, he's comfortable with the name and doesn't mind it. They just tell me that it's an old movie. Freddy Fundora tried to give nicknames to all of his boxing children, other than Sebastian. When he saw his daughter take to boxing, he was struck with an idea: "Sweet Poison," because it fit her personality.

There's a connection to the comic book villain Poison Ivy, and the play-on names went from there. The year-old junior bantamweight had initially considered "Twisted Sister," but then decided that would work better on her younger sister instead. Perhaps the weirdest nickname in boxing came from videos of a cat. Danielle Perkins, a heavyweight who used to play college basketball at St. John's, started saying "Give 'em the Skippity Paps" after watching videos of cats on their hind legs moving their front paws.

Perkins laughed. So she went with it, even starting to wear t-shirts with cats on them while sparring. The least I can do is show up and be friendly. When Jared Anderson was at the Toledo Power gym starting out as a boxer, others would come in, see his size at that time -- almost 6-feet, pounds -- and wonder how old he was.

When they were told he was 13 or 14, most people didn't believe it. Since it was a gym that was as much a boxing training center as it was a place for average humans to try and lose weight or gain mass, they would continually be taken by surprise. They always used to say it. I really didn't like it in the beginning, but it was a good name. It followed him through his time with Team USA.

When he turned pro in , Anderson considered changing it. He even floated out some possibilities on Facebook -- one being the "T-Town Bully. I kind of liked the name at first, being young-minded, but it's good for promotional reasons and everything. And so "Big Baby" still won out. Anderson said he's done shopping for nicknames.

Herring's nickname is self-explanatory. As a former Marine, it just made sense -- even if at first he didn't care whether or not he had a nickname at all. Herring sees parallels in his time with the Marines -- two deployments to Iraq in and -- and his career in boxing.

He credits how he mentally handled fighting to his time in the Corps, where he dealt with difficult situations constantly -- enough to have a book written about his life. He thought about changing his nickname at one point in his career, but then Herring saw it mattered for reasons bigger than himself. When other current and ex-Marines heard the nickname, they knew he was one of them. He found Marines began rooting for him because of it. They felt connected to him.

And even though he's the WBO junior lightweight champion, he prefers "Marine" to "Champ" when people call out to him. They just know," Herring said. Taylor was sparring with experienced pros before his debut and was dominating, so much so that people in the gym started calling him "The Tornado. So he wanted something clearly Scottish in there as well. While that's the public nickname, there is another one his friends call him with a deeper backstory.

Sometimes, Taylor goes by another name: "Hank. Taylor prefers to go by "The Tartan Tornado" -- "Hank" is more of an inside joke -- but he doesn't mind it. It suits his boxing style, how he moves and, yes, the haircut he still has to this day. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. The most memorable fights of Manny Pacquiao's career. Manny Pacquiao announces retirement from boxing. Boxing world reacts to Manny Pacquiao's retirement.

The future or just a fad? After Holyfield-Belfort, what's in the cards for novelty boxing? Belfort calls out Jake Paul after Holyfield demolition. Plus, there's only one Prince. He's one of the biggest-selling musical artists in history, would probably fight as a strawweight he is 5'4. He cannot be imitated, and it's not worth it for anyone to even try. Elorde carried it well. He was the original "Flash" and deserving of the nickname.

If so many others didn't adopt some variation of "Flash," I would consider it a good moniker. But seriously The Flushing Flash? That name in itself is enough to make anyone second-guess having "Flash" in someone's nickname, and at the end of the day, "Flash" just isn't creative enough to sound cool for any boxer these days.

This name was a toss-up for the best and worst lists because of the caliber of the listed fighters, and how suitable their nicknames feel. Muhammad Ali's self-created nickname "The Greatest" is possibly the most famous in all of boxing, and the reference to Alexander the Great makes the junior welterweight champion's nickname clever and acceptable.

However, this nickname isn't transferable from fighter to fighter, and Philadelphia's mediocre female boxer Olivia "The Great" Fonseca is a cautionary tale for why this is a bad nickname to recycle. All except for a handful of legends gain an air of ridiculousness when calling themselves "The Great. Plus, those who are truly great will probably be referenced as such anyways. So while it's appropriate for Alexander and Ali, this nickname only works well as a singular nickname for those who truly establish themselves to be Hall of Fame-caliber boxers, and fighters of this level will probably be called "great" anyway.

That's why it fits on the list of bad recycled boxing nicknames. Boxing nomenclature often follows familiar patterns. If his name is Floyd, then there are astounding odds that someone will call him "Pretty Boy. The name "Fast Eddie" dates back to a novel and successful film called The Hustler , which starred Paul Newman as small-time pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson.

It was kind of a cool-sounding name, and it caught on to the point where it spawned several restaurant chains, a DJ with a No. However, it has become a catch-all nickname in boxing, and is used indiscriminately. Current heavyweight "Fast Eddie" Chambers lives up to his nickname, but the fastest thing about "Fast Eddie" Richardson was the 77 seconds it took for him to get knocked out by a young Mike Tyson.

It's a lazy nickname, so let's hope that it now exits boxing and popular culture in general as fast as it entered. Not much to say about this one. And don't even get me started on "The Yid Kid. Thankfully, this nickname seems to be dying out. The most recent of these fighters, Shane "Kid Thunder" Sutcliffe, never rose above journeyman status. The next most recent, Mike "Kid Dynamite" Tyson, quickly had his nickname changed to "Iron" Mike Tyson, which probably did wonders to help his marketability.

Hopefully the lack of recent success for the "Kid" nickname will prevent others from naively choosing this childlike nickname. I don't know why this nickname keeps being reused. The word "Bazooka" is funny sounding, and its connotation isn't an apt description of high-level fighters.

At best, it's a powerful but unwieldy firearm that is the imaginary weapon of choice for six-year-old boys. At worst, it's a brand of pink, 5-cent bubble gum. I see what they were going for: a kind of "heavy artillery" or "rocket launcher"-type name, but there are so many better options than "Bazooka," and you'd think after three world champion fighters who have shared this lousy nickname, people would figure that out.

It describes fighters as successful as George Foreman or as disappointing as Michael Grant. Yes, "Big" does hint that they are large and imposing, but it's redundant because all these "Big" boxers can also be described as "heavyweights", which implies the same thing.

It gets even worse when followed by another word, resulting in a stupider-sounding polysyllabic nickname. Big Daddy? Big Cat? Big Bad John? It seems like "Big" is just a way to trick people into putting unfortunate words like "cat" or "daddy" into a boxing nickname and thinking it will sound intimidating.

This nickname tops the "worst of" list because it is overused, generic, and just plain lazy. It provides no new insight about the fighter, and can be simply misleading. You might think "well, the person must be from Ireland," but that isn't necessarily true. Essentially, this nickname tells us that the boxer probably has Irish ancestry, which doesn't say much. I have Irish ancestry, most rednecks in the U.

Which brings me to another point: if you have fair skin, red hair, and freckles, there's probably a 98 percent chance that you're Irish or Scottish and people can tell that just by looking at you. So the nickname is useless. To sum it up, no one really cares to know that someone's ancestors, at some point, lived on a culturally-rich, agriculturally poor part of an island in the Atlantic Ocean. This nickname is so bad and overused that most fighters who are actually from Ireland such as Steve " The Celtic Warrior " Collins and " Ireland's " John Duddy , as well as forward-thinking American fighters like Chris " The Shamrock Express " Reid, have abandoned the nickname "Irish" altogether.

Roberto Duran, sadly, is not the ideal flag-bearer for anything anymore, after his "No mas" incident which unfortunately became his other nickname and his out-of-ring troubles both during and after his career. However, he still holds a significant place in boxing history, and I think his nickname was a big part of it. A lot of boxing fans fantasize about being in that ring, and can be prone to thinking we could handle certain fighters.

A nickname like "Hands of Stone," however, reminds us that we could not. Sure, the guy may not look flashy or powerful, but his punches land with authority. Carbajal was an absolute warrior who was 's Fighter of the Year.

For someone of Carbajal's caliber to be called "Little" anything, means that the "anything" must be extraordinary. The nickname "Hurricane" invokes an impressive set of thoughts and feelings, and signifies a fighter with constant activity and overpowering skill. It also has a tough, powerful sound to it, unlike names like "Bazooka. Aside from McNeeley, the fighters who have held this nickname have lived up to its reputation too. Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson was a top contender during a golden era of heavyweight boxing.

And Rubin Carter, subject of the movie "The Hurricane" and the Bob Dylan song of the same name, was a formidable foe who unfortunately had his career cut short by controversial if not downright unjust legal decisions. The name "King" strikes fear into the hearts of many boxing fans for the wrong reasons, but if you can rid your mind of Don King for just a moment, then you can appreciate this awe-inspiring nickname.

It's good to be "King," and Khan and Abraham are deserving of the nickname. Oddly, the nickname "King" doesn't come across as being as bold and presumptuous as "The Great" or "Prince.

There are good kings and bad kings, but every champion can reasonably be described as "King" during his reign. Add in the fact that it invokes clever wordplay for both "King Khan" and "King Arthur", and you have a solid nickname that fits the fighters who reign supreme over at least a part of their respective divisions. Most of the reused nicknames that made the "Best" list are on here because they represent a classic boxing archetype, and this one is no exception.

Like their name implies, these fighters have a combination of dexterous hand movements and skilled showmanship make them fun to watch. As an Olympic bronze medalist, four-time heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver has a solid set of accomplishments in the ring. However, he is perhaps most famous for his big, bold personality. Before his second fight with Roy Jones, Jr.

Just before the first round bell, as referee Jay Nady concluded his pre-fight instructions, Nady asked "Do either of you have any questions?