2024 was undoubtedly a breakout yr for “WWE NXT” star Oba Femi. From setting the longest-reigning run with the NXT North American Championship at 272 days to turning into this yr’s Males’s Iron Survivor Problem victor, there may be far more trek for the previous champion to tread within the new yr. Though he is been busy climbing to the highest for a shot on the NXT Championship, Femi enjoys his day off with different light-hearted actions that enable him to increase his belongings to the ring. In an interview with “The Ringer Wrestling Present,” Femi mentioned the additional round actions he partakes in on his off days.
“I am an enormous film man usually,” Femi started. “I am additionally an artist. I draw. So, I am going to doodle one thing. I stroll out. I take heed to music. I meet up with family and friends. Like, I am nonetheless a standard human being…so, I do common issues. Just lately, [I] took up fishing. I have been just a few instances. That is perhaps it. I imply, I am an enormous film individual. I watch films all day. I watch a film, and I am going to watch the critique movies on it. I imply, I am a film cinema fan.”
On Tuesday, January 7, Femi will get his long-awaited shot at Trick Williams’ NXT Championship at “NXT: New 12 months’s Evil,” regardless of having to face off not solely towards the champion but in addition “The Alpha Wolf,” Eddy Thorpe, who, like, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” howled his method into this matchup by intimidation and taking part in off of individuals’s sympathies.
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