What is the coolest nickname for any athlete in any sport?

xaviercromartie · 11 months

AK-47 for Andrei Kirilenko.

redhotkurt · 11 months

Iron Mike Tyson

BindersHat · 11 months

Seńor Crappy (Michael Jordan of the White Sox)

jeddy3 · 11 months

I don't particularly like Frank Thomas, but The Big Hurt is a hell of a name.

trolling_thunder · 11 months

Even though he'd prefer people don't use it anymore, I've always liked Joakim "The Mexicutioner" Soria.

LaceDarius · 11 months

No body has mentioned Darryl Dawkins:Chocolate Thunder. The guy named all of his dunks.

Kip4Good · 11 months

The Current Best: The Durantula (Kevin Durant)

The Current Worst: Nick 'The Promise' Ring (UFC Fighter)

Pennyflame · 11 months

Lionheart = Carlos Puyol

The Bull of the Bosporus = Hakar Sukur

Duncan Disorderly = Duncan Furgueson

Dutch Destroyer = Jaap Stam

Ginger Ninja = Paul Scoles

The Hunter = Jan Huntelaar

Scarface = Frank Ribery

sawu · 11 months

Hulk - Brazilian football (soccer) player.

wjg10 · 11 months

John "Spider" Salley and "The Worm" for Dennis Rodman.

Mulcho · 11 months

These are some baseball ones I remember loving:

Roger Clemens - The Rocket

Randy Johnson - The Big Unit

Fred McGriff - The Crime Dog

Ken Griffey Jr. - Junior, The Kid

Frank Thomas - The Big Hurt

Willie Mays - Say Hey Kid

Tom Gordon - Flash Gordon

Babe Ruth - Sultan of Swat, Colossus of Clout, "The Babe"

Ted Williams - The Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame

Don't forget Wayne Gretzky - "The Great One" that may be one of the best nicknames ever.

Pennyflame · 11 months

That's easy: Hulk

He really looks like Hulk

CACuzcatlan · 11 months

The Butcher from Bilbao - Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga

Earlier, on 24 September 1983, Goiko achieved notoriety for an infamous tackle on Diego Maradona in a league match at the Camp Nou, ferociously tackling the Argentine from behind and leaving him severely injured, and reportedly later keeping "the boot he had used to destroy...(Maradona’s) ankle ligaments" at home in a glass case.

Der Kaiser - Franz Beckenbauer
Il Phenomeno (The Phenomenon) - Ronaldo
El Loco - Half of Latin American soccer players, such as Sebastian Abreu

arichi · 11 months

Two NFL players to add to your list:

The Bear Jew -- Greg Carimi (Jewish, semi-observant, plays for Chicago FC)

Law Firm -- BenJarvis Green Ellis.

steworleans · 11 months

Not my favorites but honorable mentions to Clyde the Glide Drexler and Pistol Pete Maravich but being from Boston Larry Legend 33 Go B's

raugturi · 11 months

I'm not even a fan of racing (which is more like blasphemy here than also being an atheist), but there have been some good nicknames:

The Intimidator (Dale Earnhardt)
The King (Richard Petty)
Million Dollar Bill, Awesome Bill from Dawsonville (Bill Elliot)
Fireball (Glenn Roberts)
The Silver Fox (David Pearson)
Smoke (Tony Stewart)
Jaws (Darrell Waltrip)

piratemike53 · 11 months

you all have it wrong... Manny Pacquiao is known as Pambansang Kamao in the Phillippines. It translates to the National Fist!!!

kardizen · 11 months

The Dunking Dutchman - Rik Smits
Miller Time - Reggie Miller
The Minister of Defense - Reggie White

boomer_kuwanger · 11 months

How has no one mentioned THE FRIDGE yet?

[deleted] · 11 months

Magic

"Floppy" Divacs

Dr.J

The Dream

Phi Slamma Jamma

Sweetness

[deleted] · 11 months

The Flying Tomato - Shaun White

eyeseeyoo · 11 months

More NFL:

Adrian Peterson - All Day
Joe Montana - Joe Cool
BenJarvus Green-Ellis - Law Firm
Christian Okoye - Nigerian Nightmare
Darrelle Revis - Revis Island
Deacon Jones - Secretary of Defense

slutface · 11 months

Half man, half a season - Vince Carter, Toronto days

CptMurphy · 11 months

Comeback Joe.

MathLo · 11 months

George Gervin - Iceman

skz · 11 months

He hate me

kardizen · 11 months

Ghostface Drillah - Dirk Nowtizki.

kardizen · 11 months

Big Shot Rob - Robert Horry

kardizen · 11 months

Mad Max - Vernon Maxwell

hoothello · 11 months

MLB:

Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd

Frank "The Big Hurt" Thomas

NBA:

Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain--especially after seeing this picture.

Bryant "Big Country" Reeves

twist2002 · 11 months

kerry “hockey temper” getz (pro skateboarder)

Matt_Furg · 11 months

Kevin Durant - The Durantula

BdaMann · 11 months

Going way back:

The Georgia Peach (Ty Cobb)

The Flying Dutchman (Honus Wagner)

The Big Train (Walter Johnson)

Wahoo Sam (Sam Crawford)

The Grey Eagle (Tris Speaker)

Shoeless Joe (Joe Jackson)

Big Poison (Paul Waner)

The Hoosier Thunderbolt (Amos Rusie)

King Carl (Carl Hubbell)

Lavoscloud · 11 months

The Matrix- Shaun Marion.

PaulTheOctopus · 11 months

Wanderlei "Axe murderer" Silva.

pygreg · 11 months

Devin Hester...Windy City Flyer

kidmen · 11 months

Tennis nicknames are often over looked but I think they have some pretty awesome ones.

Roger Federer:

Maestro - Dude would control the game and pace back in his prime.

Fed-Ex - Federer would demolish all of his opponents in record time.

Swiss Knife - Name something he couldn't do.

Darth Fed - When he used to wear all black for his US Open championship night games.

humanspace · 11 months

You can't count Black Mamba as a nickname; Kobi tried to NAME HIMSELF the black Mamba. Weak! No one uses it except in jest.

It DON'T work like that.

humanspace · 11 months

Shooter - Rod Beck, (Former closer for the SF Giants)

kelseycliff · 11 months

Gilbert Arenas - hibachi

NittLion78 · 11 months

Darrell "Dr. Dunkenstein" Griffith

blueshirt29 · 11 months

Bobby Hull, the "Golden Jet"

the_shape · 11 months

I'll just leave this here.

Dietcereal · 11 months

Byrant Reeves or BIG COUNTRY

soccerman · 11 months

Brad "Lights Out" Lidge for his perfect season

jceez · 11 months

Not the coolest, but the most LOLs.

The Shopping List

The Law Firm

imcool6 · 11 months

James Reimer: Optimus Reim

Mokken · 11 months

Dirty Dirk aka Swish41

why is that not up there?

Phegan · 11 months

Vlad the Impaler 'Doc' Halladay The Big Hurt

carnifex2005 · 11 months

Anyone from the Negro League.... Cool Papa Bell. Rap Dixon. Plunk Drake. Buck O'Neil. Superman Pennington. Judy Johnson. Steel Arm Johnny Taylor. Bingo DeMoss and on and on.

Sav23 · 11 months

Shaqtus not up for debate

tphollingsworth · 11 months

Larry Johnson grandma

Jaklz · 11 months

A little late, but the best one from rugby is definitely Adam 'Two Dads' Ashley-Cooper.

AvoidingIowa · 11 months

Most of my favorites have been said but I like "The Dean of Mean" Keith Gardine and Jake "The Snake" Plummer because it fit him so damn well.

kingofthehillpeople · 11 months

Darryl Dawkins – "Chocolate Thunder"

jayrot · 11 months

SF Giants have some solid ones:

The Freak
The Bat
Huff Daddy
Nasty Nate
Kung Fu Panda
The Weapon (this one might just be my circle, though I've heard it elsewhere for Lopez)

blueboybob · 11 months

Nick "The Promise" Ring -- MMA

IllusionsMichael · 11 months

For 90% of NHL players: Take the first syllable of the players first/last name and append an 'S', 'ER', or 'IE / Y':

Examples: Nathan Horton: Horts

Jiri Hudler: Huds / Hudles (also called "Happy Hudler")

Patrick Kane: Kaner

Danny Cleary: Clears

Brendan Shanahan: Shanny

Steve Yzerman: Stevie (Y)

Nicklas Lidstrom: Lids

Brent Burns: Burnsie

Ilya Kovalchuk: Kovy

thegrizzle · 11 months

Tim Lincecum - BIG TIME TIMMY JIM!!

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