Wednesday, April 29, 2009

worst TUF nicknames

Sometime I will do a list of the top ten worst nicknames of all time in all of MMA, but lately there have been a lot of guys passing though the TUF house with dumb nicknames. Some have come into the house with the dumb nicknames, some have been given their dumb nicknames while in the UFC. So here, in no particular order, are the worst TUF fighter nicknames.

*Jeff "The Law" Lawson, Josh "Kos" Koscheck, and Kyle "Kingsbu" Kingsbury - when your nickname is half your last name, it shows no creativity.
*Jules "Cotton Mouth From the South" Bruchez - if you know what a cottonmouth is, it's not bad. But the vast majority of people have no idea what the hell a cottonmouth is.
*"Sugar" Shane Nelson - just once I would love to see a boxer or MMA fighter with the name Shane who does not use Sugar as his nickname.
*Ryan "Darth" Bader - We get it, a play on one of the most famous movies all time. Not all that clever, and not that funny. What, someone already had "Princess Lay-you-outa" claimed?
*Krzysztof "The Polish Experiment" Soszynski - I think I speak for everybody when I say what the hell does this even mean?
*Matthew "The Riddler" Riddle - see Jeff Lawson and Ryan Bader above.
*Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver - wait, since I guess that's now his legal name, it' doesn't count as a nickname any more.
*Joe "J-Lau" Lauzon - See Ryan Bader, but change famous movie to famous female. Not too many fighters want to have a nickname associated to a women I don't think.
*Mikey "The Eastside Assassin" Burnett, Danny "The Assassin" Abaddi, Melvin "The Young Assassin" Guillard, Sam "The Alaskan Assassin" Hoger, Alex "The Assassin" Karalexis, and anyone else who has had some version of Assassin in there nickname.
*Josh "Bring the Pain" Haynes and Keith "The Dean of Mean" Jardine - Nicknames should be adjectives most of the time, not a sentence.
*Brad "The Hillbilly Heartthrob" Imes - falls in the phrase category, but his one is just beyond stupid. If your nickname is based on your looks and not on your fighting ability, not a good sign.
*Chris "The Crippler" Leben - Not that it is a bad nickname par say, but the fact that Zuffa changed it to that from his original nickname, the best nickname ever in MMA history, "The Catsmasher"

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