{"id":163556,"date":"2026-04-06T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=163556"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:16:02","slug":"bts-suga-reveals-the-true-story-behind-his-stage-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-suga-reveals-the-true-story-behind-his-stage-name\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2018 Suga reveals the true story behind his stage name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS\u2019<\/strong>s<strong> Suga<\/strong> has shocked all the fans, better known as ARMY, after revealing the true story behind his stage name and rewriting thirteen years of BTS\u2019s history. The idol is ready to spill the tea on his artistic journey name.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, BTS sat down for Wired\u2018s <em>\u201cAutocomplete Interview,\u201d<\/em> where they answered fan questions pulled from Google autocomplete searches. Suga didn\u2019t expect one of the questions to be Suga\u2019s <strong>inspiration<\/strong> behind his artistic name.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sugadooll\/status\/2041130585129627806?\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yoongi telling us the real meaning behind the name SUGA after 13 years and saying that shooting guard was what he just used caused it was annoying to explain&#8230; MIN YOONGI HOW LONG DID YOU PLAN TO GATEKEEP THIS INFO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ug1RKNxo13\">pic.twitter.com\/Ug1RKNxo13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2b51 (@sugadooll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sugadooll\/status\/2041130585129627806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The idol originally kept the version of Suga, which is short for <strong><em>\u201cshooting guard,\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>a basketball position. However, Suga has revealed that he says it because the real behind-the-scenes story is <strong>too annoying to explain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that the<strong> real inspiration comes from legendary American boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, a five-time world champion renowned for his technical striking skills and precision in the ring<\/strong>. The other members were completely surprised after he spilled the tea, and J-hope, Jin, and V called him out for possibly making it up or gatekeeping it for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5lfnT1HdmuM\" title=\"BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) Answer The Web&#039;s Most Searched Questions | WIRED\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lfnT1HdmuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS\u2019s Suga has shocked all the fans, better known as ARMY, after revealing the true story behind his stage name and rewriting thirteen years of BTS\u2019s history. The idol is ready to spill the tea on his artistic journey name. Recently, BTS sat down for Wired\u2018s \u201cAutocomplete Interview,\u201d where they answered fan questions pulled from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":163559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-163556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-bts"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163562,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163556\/revisions\/163562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}