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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 29, 2020 2:05:03 GMT -5
I listen to the LAW/Sunday night main event podcasts and I’ve noticed that for a bunch of international wrestling nerds, they have trouble with names like
Kairi sane
Dan lavranski, and sometimes Jason Agnew, almost always call her Kerry Sane
Humberto Carrillo
Either they pronounce the H or the LL in Carrillo like Brillo.
Others
PAC, who is sometimes Pronounced like Six Pack or Tupac
Mustafa Ali, I noticed that the raw announcers used correct pronunciation after Ali said in a promo that they were saying it wrong. But I noticed some weeks where they use old pronunciation (like new jack and mustafa)
Tay Conti. Her last name for a while, there was confusion ether it was pronounced Con-tee or Conchi on both nxt and AEW. In nxt, She was originally Con-tee, then changed it to Conchee. Then in AEW Dasha called her Conchee but Shaun Guerrero called her Con-tee. She also told Brit baker that her first name is pronounced Tye, but the next night they called her Tey again.
Also, Japanese names. www has gotten better with over the years. Now I can understand, but I don’t know how they’ve been able to correctly pronounce Sasuke, Jushin thunder liger, tatsumi Fujinami, in their less internationally inclusive years but pronounce Saito (Sai-to) as Sa-ito to this day. Fans do as well.
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Post by romanstylesiii on Dec 29, 2020 2:14:48 GMT -5
Vince be like:
Langston
Samson
Riddle
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Post by 06vwgti on Dec 29, 2020 3:42:02 GMT -5
I could have sworn one of the NJPW on AXS broadcasts I heard JR pronounce Tomohiro Ishii has "Tomohiro Ishi-E"
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 29, 2020 3:55:45 GMT -5
I could have sworn one of the NJPW on AXS broadcasts I heard JR pronounce Tomohiro Ishii has "Tomohiro Ishi-E" I’ve heard other people do that. Really want to hit that extra syllable for some reason
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Dec 29, 2020 4:02:30 GMT -5
Curt Hennig is frequently referred to as Henning. Mike Rotunda is sometimes called Rotundo (although that's understandable as I believe WWF called him that when he was tagging with Barry Windham)
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Dec 29, 2020 5:57:38 GMT -5
Wahoo McDaniel/McDaniels was a big one.
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Post by Viking Hall on Dec 29, 2020 8:00:17 GMT -5
Marty Scurll is definitely one of these. I've got a mate who insists on calling him Marty Scroll, but I've heard 'Skull' a few times too.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Dec 29, 2020 9:43:59 GMT -5
Before he got to WWE and getting his name changed to Cesaro, I remember people being very inconsistent in how they pronounced Claudio Castagnoli's name.
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Post by Aceorton on Dec 29, 2020 11:51:30 GMT -5
"Ted DiBiase" was not an easy one at first for a WWF kid in 1987 who hadn't heard it before.
"Jacqueline" sometimes was pronounced with the Q, sometimes with a CK.
I still don't know for sure how to pronounce "Levesque."
But the grand champion for me here is "Toma/Tamma/Tahma" from the Islanders.
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Post by Hypnosis on Dec 29, 2020 12:05:33 GMT -5
On MLW, Mads Krugger's first name has been pronounced as "Mods" by Rich Bocchini, but as "Mads" by everyone else.
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Post by sungod2020 on Dec 29, 2020 12:07:35 GMT -5
I use to mistake Brock Lesnar's name for "Brock Lenzer."
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Dec 29, 2020 12:07:37 GMT -5
if we are talking about spelling, loads of people have trouble with Bayley's name
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Dec 29, 2020 12:55:10 GMT -5
"Ted DiBiase" was not an easy one at first for a WWF kid in 1987 who hadn't heard it before. "Jacqueline" sometimes was pronounced with the Q, sometimes with a CK. I still don't know for sure how to pronounce "Levesque." But the grand champion for me here is "Toma/Tamma/Tahma" from the Islanders.You win, I forgot about Tama. My brother's friend would call my brother Toma for some reason.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Dec 29, 2020 13:13:12 GMT -5
Not a wrestler's name, but a move, which has been driving me nuts. Excalibur pronouncing the "winged" in "One Winged Angel" as two syllables rather than one. I don't know if that's how Kenny pronounced it throughout his career, so it could very well just be me lol
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Dec 29, 2020 15:01:09 GMT -5
"Ted DiBiase" was not an easy one at first for a WWF kid in 1987 who hadn't heard it before. "Jacqueline" sometimes was pronounced with the Q, sometimes with a CK. I still don't know for sure how to pronounce "Levesque." But the grand champion for me here is "Toma/Tamma/Tahma" from the Islanders. I believe Levesque is "Le-veck" with the intonation like "respect". I thought it was "Levesk" my whole life after only reading it as a kid and never hearing it until a couple of years ago once he went more corporate and the media stopped calling him Triple H and I heard it said out loud haha.
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Post by 67 more on Dec 29, 2020 15:48:31 GMT -5
I could have sworn one of the NJPW on AXS broadcasts I heard JR pronounce Tomohiro Ishii has "Tomohiro Ishi-E" I’ve heard other people do that. Really want to hit that extra syllable for some reason Yeah, Kevin Kelly did it all the time in ROH until he started working for New Japan regularly.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 29, 2020 15:50:55 GMT -5
Before he got to WWE and getting his name changed to Cesaro, I remember people being very inconsistent in how they pronounced Claudio Castagnoli's name. came here to mention Castagnoli. The GN sound really throws people off cause it's not really something that happens in English.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 29, 2020 20:44:52 GMT -5
Before he got to WWE and getting his name changed to Cesaro, I remember people being very inconsistent in how they pronounced Claudio Castagnoli's name. came here to mention Castagnoli. The GN sound really throws people off cause it's not really something that happens in English. Isn’t it the equivalent of ñ in Spanish? It’s also in French, so you’d think people would be used to it from Verne Gagne
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Dec 29, 2020 20:53:27 GMT -5
I used to always get Juventud Guerrera's name wrong and would call him Juventud Guerrero.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 20:55:29 GMT -5
Curt Hennig is frequently referred to as Henning. Mike Rotunda is sometimes called Rotundo (although that's understandable as I believe WWF called him that when he was tagging with Barry Windham) The Hennig one annoys me in particular because they're not only misspelling it, they're also mispronouncing it. Its HEN-NIG (like wig), not "Hen-Ning"
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