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Was Pero Mahalovic a serb?

posted 18 years ago by srbin678
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It sounds Serbian, but I think they *beep* up the name, as they ussually do.

I've never heard of a last name Mahalovic, they probably meant Mihajlovic.

[–] miroslav-cvejic 18 years ago

nego sta nego je srbin.

Yup, the name is wrong, as well those few lines in serbian.

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[–] cedo 18 years ago

Da samo sto ima ruski pravoslavni krst na tetovazi i kao privesak na lancicu! Osim toga zajebali su dijagonalnu liniju na krstu - umesto da ide SZ -> JI, ona ide obrnuto!

Yes, he's supposed to be of a Serbian origin, but his tatoo and pendant on necklace is a russian orthodox cross (Serbian is slightly different) not to mention his bad pronunciation of few serbian words!

[–] mechanical_phatness 17 years ago

that's probably the reason why he gets ko'd so easily, lol (wuss)... pwned by the priest... a catholic one at that...

[–] taker1998 17 years ago

No, hi is supposed to be slovenian. Because Pero is short for peter, and he also says "pizda" which is pure slovenian word.

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[–] mr_kobayashi 17 years ago

Chances are he is intended to be a Slovene as Cleveland has the largest community of Slovenes outside of Slovenia. Many have/had settled in Collinwood.

[–] lumosnight 16 years ago

When you see his name in the boxing match it is 'The Serbian Tornado' so he's a Serb.

[–] Cugine69 11 years ago

Also during the boxing match they're waving a Serbian flag. Mahalovic is a Serbian surname, not polish nor slovenian that's for sure. Him and Babich are serbs in this movie. Serbs often live in the same neighborhoods as poles and slovenes.

[–] wbs5 16 years ago

The funny thing is that Mahalovic is a polish name, so I'm guessing his father was polish. I know a family by that name on the west side of cleveland. An underlying joke is that a lot of people in cleveland seem to have polish blood.

Even cosismo has a polish sounding last name "Cosnowolski?" Hilarious.

[–] muhammed_3 15 years ago

Mahalovic is NOT a polish name. THAT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU. It is a serbian name. When people emigrated to America a long time ago, many names were spelt and pronounced differently by the people registering the names of immigrants arriving. So I assume there is a real serbian family in the states named Mahalovic, but originally it was Mihajlovic, which is a common serbian last name. A lot of family names have a totally different pronounciation due to these errors. But they do sound cooler!