Ever used to mispronounce a wrestler's name?

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At any point, did you ever think someone's name (wrestler, manager, etc) was pronounced a different way than it actually is?

I used to think Ole Anderson's name was "Ol'", like how old is sometimes said. :x

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

Curt Henning

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

8 year old me had no idea how to wrap my head around how to pronounce "Faarooq".

[chazraps]

Mispronouced in some local commercial, so for my single digit years I thought it was "Ted Dibbie-uh-see," and that the proper pronunciation of "dee-bee-ah-see" was just for dramatic effect.

[Heeltown, USA]

The Legend, “Beef Stew” Lew Macaroni, er......Marconi, and his shoulda been tag partner Beef Wellington, except he spelled it Biff. Pfft.

[SirLucas]

It's Duggan not Doogan!

[Starshine]

CIMA.

For the longest time I wasn't sure if it was meant to phonetically be "see-ma," or "shee-ma." It's a shortened and stylized version of his real surname Oshima (silent 'o'). My confusion mainly came from ROH apparently not being sure either. They'd regularly call him "see-ma" yet elsewhere I was hearing "shee-ma." You would have thought they'd have done their homework there.

[Larryhausen]

Anybody who ever called Edge "The Rated R Superstar" and not "The Rated Arrrrrr....SOOOOOOOOOOperstar."

[A Platypus Rave]

the legendary "Roddy" Roddy Piper.

[turkeysandwich]

There were a few names I only saw written down in the Apter mags as a kid. I thought Dibiase was pronounced "De-base" and I thought Dino Bravo was Die-no as in dinosaur.

[wrestlingrecap]

For the longest time I spelled/pronounced Tom Prichard as "Pritchard". It has gotten to the point that I knowingly spell his name wrong in any reviews I do.

[bmfjules]

Thanks to Bruce Prichard and Jim Cornette Dick Togo will forever be "dick, to go."

[Thunderbolt]

Not me, but when I was a kid, one of my friends would say "Bam Bam Biffalow". I miss ya Steve.

and just like ambrose_fan, I read "Ole" and also thought it must be pronounced as "Ol".

[The 1Watcher Experience]

I thought a couple wrestlers had different names thanks to the Apter mags when I was a kid. A big thing that I always looked forward to in those was reading about title changes or arena results. I read Jushin Thunder Riger and Frankie Kazaran in those mags for about a year before I’d actually seen them myself and then realized they were being spelled incorrectly. It took me a little while to get used to calling them Liger and Kazarian. I guess the people printing the mags seen them around the same time I did because they were corrected around the same time too.

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For the record I still process the pronunciation of the name as "Sin" Cara, not Seen Cara.

[SmashTV]

A friend of mine always pronounced Tully Blanchard as 'Toolee'.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Oct 18, 2018 0:04:58 GMT -5 bmfjules said:

Thanks to Bruce Prichard and Jim Cornette Dick Togo will forever be "dick, to go."

On the subject of Kaientai, I'm STILL not sure how to pronounce Mens Teioh's last name.

[Viking Hall]

A few Japanese ones, the pronunciation of Shinsuke caught me off guard. However I have a friend who is notorious for it, still insists on calling Marty Scurll 'Marty Scroll' and Ted DiBiase 'Ted De-Bee-See' despite hearing both pronounced correctly countless times.

[willywonka666]

Oct 17, 2018 19:08:38 GMT -5 Gravedigger's Biscuits said:

Curt Henning

1,000 times this-I just now realized that it was "Hennig" I thought all these years someone screwed up the spelling on the back of his dad's jacket

[willywonka666]

Oct 18, 2018 6:01:42 GMT -5 Viking Hall said:

A few Japanese ones, the pronunciation of Shinsuke caught me off guard. However I have a friend who is notorious for it, still insists on calling Marty Scurll 'Marty Scroll' and Ted DiBiase 'Ted De-Bee-See' despite hearing both pronounced correctly countless times.

I know people like this-I don't know why they insist on mispronouncing. I have one friend and I think it's because he doesn't pay attention, which is disturbing