UFC fighters with difficult names to pronounce

[RemyR]

What a great thread

 

[Sasha]

Probably depends on where you're from. I.e. being from Denmark, I'm pronouncing Mark O. Madsen correctly, whereas an american would probably oftentimes pronounce his last name with a hard "d", as in "mad", and not correctly as in "mass".

Englishmen probably miss a small organ to be able to pronounce guttural R's in French and German names (mostly) .
It's OK though, we can't pronounce the "th" sound even if we were shown a thousand times. In France at least, Germans speak 300% better English than us. And not just because English is a Germanic language, our foreign language education sucks a LOT.

 

[Bearknuckle]

We’re lucky theres no Thai fighters in the UFC their names are probably the most difficult to say.
To confuse it even more they change their names often, and use gym names and sometimes even the gyms address in their name.

Heres a name i found on onefc’s site.


Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke

hes their former strawweight champ

 

[blewgums]

Mike Smith.

how the hell is that pronounced? I never could get that one

 

[Goutfather]

Yeah, Russian names are quite easy to be honest, they are extremely phonetic. They might be long or sound foreign, but they're very easy to pronounce. Nurmagomedov is spelled and pronounced exactly as it sounds and reads. They only tricky thing is sometimes the Zh is a guttural huh sound. Georgian is also very easy to spell and read for the most part, super phonetic for English speakers.

Now Kyrgyzstan gets a little more difficult because they are melting multiple languages together and there's more odd clutters of consonants and added vowels that seem odd. I actually find Polish to be perhaps the hardest with some Hungarian and Czech to be difficult too. Besides that Thai names are a pain sometimes but they also seem more phonetic to me than Czech, Polish and Hungarian. Oleksiejczuk is bullshit.

ive seen thai names with like 11 syllables. idk how common that is, but they actually used a shortened version of the name because nobody could pronounce it.

 

[Bearknuckle]

ive seen thai names with like 11 syllables. idk how common that is, but they actually used a shortened version of the name because nobody could pronounce it.

superlek kiatmoo9

man got a 9 in his name lol