C-Mac, Lil Cap, Clutchery: How Cam Newton creates nicknames

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It's one thing to have a great nickname. It's another to give great nicknames.

So when ESPN.com asked NFL Nation reporters to come up with the best nickname on the team they cover, it was a slam dunk that the honor for the Carolina Panthers went to quarterback Cam Newton, the self-proclaimed "Sensei of Nicknames."

Newton made his title known partly out of necessity in 2014 when apologizing for referring to then-Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh as "Donkey Kong Suh."

"If anything, I was trying to say it as a compliment of him for wreaking havoc," Newton said at the time. "Me going forward, I should have called him 'Wreck-it Ralph.'"

It was during this apology that…