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What's The Ethnic Ancestors of Brock Lesnar?

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As we all know Brock Lesner is a freak of nature as far as his enormous physique and his athleticism go.

Then i wondered what's the ethnic ancestors of Brock Lesner?

here are some clues..
1. he's from the state of Minnesota where there are many Germans and Scandinavians (especially Swedish) descendant population.

2. He's skin is so pale and has blond hair even his eyebrows as well. I agree that his nickname "Vanilla Gorilla" suits him well.

*there were some threads regarding his ethnicity from some white supremacy forums during my quick research on google which by the way wasn't that useful at all then i wanted find out his REAL ethnicity.

I'm guessing either German or Swedish :confused02:

Mini-documentary of Brock Lesnar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IkHwhkhkcs&eurl=
 
#52 ·
"Lesnar" definitely sounds German, though, or at least Germanic.
"Definitely" is only if you don't know where Slovenia is and what their language and names sounds. I put my bet on him being Slovenian, with that specific suffix at the end ("nar", used as a sign of proffesion of a person, imitating or orginating from german "ner")& Slavic, notably Slovenian, word for wood or forest - "les" (as a member Baby Jay D already said). Etimology woud be "someone who deals with wood", either lumberjack, wood dealer or even a carpenter.
I know many Slovenians (it's harder to trace them elsewhere, small nation), and lot of them has similar sounding surnames.
And yes, many of them are blond, being both german influenced and Slavic.
 
#11 ·
He looks very Scandinavian. The name Lesnar doesn't sound that Scandinavian, but if you change the spelling and insert an "Å" or "ä" instead it could be.
Minnesota has a very strong Scandinavian background, so that would make sense. He could have some German in there as well.
 
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He probably has Scandinavian and German background, but he could have something else as well.
It is commun to have several different countries you can link you ancestors to.

And by the way, there is only one race, the human race.
 
#17 ·
Im gonna guess German, the reason Im going with it is because growing up in a small town we used to travel to a nearby town to play hockey against there team, the town was originally a German settlement and all the kids on the team where abnormally large for there ages.
 
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As we all know Brock Lesner is a freak of nature as far as his enormous physique and his athleticism go.

Then i wondered what's the ethic ancestors of Brock Lesner?

here are some clues..
1. he's from the state of Minnesota where there are many Germans and Scandinavians (especially Swedish) descendant population.

2. He's skin is so pale and has blond hair even his eyebrows as well. I agree that his nickname "Vanilla Gorilla" suits him well.

*there were some threads regarding his ethnicity from some white supremacy forums during my quick research on google which by the way wasnt that useful at all then i wanted find out his REAL ethnicity.

I'm guessing either German or Swedish :confused02:

Mini-documentary of Brock Lesner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IkHwhkhkcs&eurl=

That's a really good Mini-documentary on Brock...I didn't know he was always so outspoken..He draws people to him...
 
#20 ·
Here's some Scandinavian input on the name Lesnar, and all I can come up with Is this.

"Le" means "Laugh" In Norwegian and "Snar" means "Quick" in Swedish.

Brock LaughQuick.. doesnt quite have the same ring to It.

Or you could add Lesn(ø)r instead of the A and It would be "Le Snow"
 
#51 ·
Funny:)Not coneivable though imo.

Anyway, like many people say he probably has a lot of Scandinavian and some German ancestors as well.
States like Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan are the staes with the most Americans with Scandinavian heritage, most often Norwegian and Swedish,some but less Danish.
Ironically, California is the state with the most danish-Americans.
 
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#23 ·
His "ethic" ancestry would probably be a "not very ethical buncha guys", since he loves to beat people up :).

Ethnic ancestry though... Mountain Troll :confused02:? Dunno, it's already been said, it's probably Scandinavian/Germanic or a mix of the two just going by the uber-pale blond everything and giant size, and Lesnar does sound kinda like some Nordic god name.
 
#29 ·
Definitely Scandanavian at some point in his ancestry. Pretty much all of Northern Europe is at least partly scandanavian, because the vikings were so good at doing what they do, kicking ass and "sweet talking" the women.

So his name may say one thing, but to be that big and blonde, there is no doubt that there is a viking in his family tree.
 
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