…because why else would it pop up in my thoughts periodically after all of these years?
Nah.
Edward “Two Sheds” Jackson has him beat.
Arthur.
(Sorry)
Billy “White Shoes” Johnson.
Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch.
Earl “Snake Hips” Tucker
Jim “Two Silhouettes On” Deshaies.
Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd
“Gorgeous George” Wagner.
Buddy Rogers, “The Nature Boy”.
William “The Refrigerator” Perry.
“Too Much” Johnson. One version of the film was thought to have been lost, and up until it was found in an archive, what they said was true: you can never have Too Much Johnson.
“Mean” Joe Greene
D’Oh!
Of course.
I.M. Hipp, Scientific Map, He Hate Me
I’ve always been partial to the unfortunate Hugh “Losing Pitcher” Mulcahy.
“Death to Flying Things”, a nickname so awesome three players have used it.
I was trying to see if Dick Butkus had a nickname. For non football people (American style) Butkus played for the Bears as a linebacker. He was known for some of the most ferocious tackles ever. He played for 9 seasons and was a pro-bowler for 8 of them. This was in spite of having his knees ruined for the last 4 seasons. Here are the nicknames Google gave me. I really thought the last one was the most descriptive.
The Robot of Destruction
The Maestro of Mayhem
The Enforcer
The Animal
Dick
There was a boxer with the nickname ‘Bucket of Blood’. I recall they made him change his name to something more appropriate for television. Plenty of boxers with good nicknames, Marco Antonio Barrera was the ‘Baby Faced Assassin’, and Roberto Duran was ‘Hands of Stone’, both quite appropriate.
Another one is pitcher Antonio “El Pulpo (The Octopus)” Alfonseca, so called since he has six digits on each hand and foot.
Rod “He Hate Me” Smart, the only thing anyone remembers about the XFL.
Hector “Macho” Camacho.
Ian “The Thorpedo” Thorpe.