Nigerian-Born American Wrestler Apollo Crews Celebrated Online as he Becomes Intercontinental Champion

Nigerian-Born American Wrestler Apollo Crews Celebrated Online as he Becomes Intercontinental Champion

Babajide Orevba
updated at April 12, 2023 at 7:46 PM

- A Nigerian-born American professional wrestler, Sesugh Uhaa, has fulfilled his promise of making the African country proud

- Sesugh who is popularly called Apollo Crew has become the new intercontinental champion after defeating Ettore “Big E” Ewen

- The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission celebrated the wrestler on its official Twitter handle

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A Nigerian-born American professional wrestler, Sesugh Uhaa, has been celebrated on social media by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM).

The wrestler recently made Nigeria proud by debfeating Ettore “Big E” Ewen to become the new intercontinental champion.

Nigerian-Born American Wrestler Apollo Crews Celebrated Online as he Becomes Intercontinental Champion
Apollo Crews has made Nigeria proud by defeating Ettore “Big E” Ewen. Photo credit: @nidcom_gov
Source: Twitter

In a viral video, Sesugh who is popularly called Apollo Crew promised to defeat his opponent and he did just that.

Celebrating Apollo Crew on Twitter, NIDCOM wrote:

"Nigerian Born American professional wrestler, Sesugh Uhaa @WWEApollo promised to make Nigeria proud and he just did that by defeating @WWEBigE to become the NEW #ICChampion! #AndNew #WrestleMania Champion.
"Congratulations Champion."

Nigerians soon flooded the comment section of the post to congratulate their countryman.

@MainStreetEnt20 said:

"Americans and the whole world want to associate with Nigeria, some God forsaken children will keep disparaging Nigeria so that they can get asylum as refugees. Shame on ye unpatriotic elements."

@Aidegemj commented:

"His accent though! So lovely."

@seesomebody1

"Congratulations to the Nigerians and the Benue state."

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In other news, Kamaru Usman has revealed that he will only move up to the middleweight division if champion Israel Adesanya is no longer in that weight class.

The welterweight champion successfully defended his title for the third time against former training partner Gilbert Burns in UFC's 258 main event, following a third-round stoppage.

The Nigerian nightmare extended his unbeaten run to 13, breaking Georges St Pierre’s consecutive welterweight victories and a record of wins in the UFC roaster.

33-year-old Usman stated clearly that he would prefer two Africans to hold UFC belts than step into the octagon with fellow compatriot Adesanya.

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Babajide Orevba is a CAF accredited Nigerian journalist and HOD of the Local Desk with over 10 years of experience in media landscape.He studied NCE Political Science/Social Studies, AOCOED.
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