Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Ron Swanson View Post
Not sure what Americans eric talks to, I live in America so talk to Americans daily and I've never heard one single American say Beh-teh-bee-ev. But that's whatever.

The guy has tons of holes, he covers for them with his offense as he should. He will want to smooth many rough edges before getting in the ring with the winner of Kovalev-Ward II but with his power he has a shot vs either.
I just watched his last fight and listened to the commentators

really spoiled the spectacle with their daft pronunciations
Ah, I've yet to watch a Beterbiev fight in English. I will say blame the announcers though, not Americans. Because every person I've discussed him says it either how it appears or rightly says the initial e how russians do as if it is 2 letters. To be fair there are a decent amount of Russians in Miami so most around this area know how Russians speak. I could be getting a slanted view of how most Americans would say his name.