AEW EVP and former World Champion Kenny Omega is a big fan of one of professional wrestling’s most unique promotions – Soft Ground Wrestling.
SGW is a Ugandan promotion founded in 2023. The promotion has gained popularity and international attention due to its unique style and setting. The promotion uses a mud wrestling ring with nylon string for ropes held up by bamboo posts.
Footage of matches has gone viral and caught the attention of several big names such as Will Ospreay and Jordynne Grace have donated to the promotion to help them improve their facilities.
Kenny Omega wants to work with the talent at SGW
Speaking on his Twitch stream, The Best Bout Machine was asked for his thoughts on the promotion and revealed he was a big fan.
SGW Uganda, one thing that I really love and appreciate about it is that when you’re watching it, you can feel the heart of the athletes. It’s infectious to see the passion of these people and the passion of through their work.
Even in the most rudimentary of ways, they wrestle on a dirt ring. It looks like bamboo posts. Visually, there are ropes, but I don’t think you can run them. You understand by watching that they are in there trying to do a professional wrestling show. I think they are doing a great job entertaining the fans.
They are clearly doing a great job entertaining people online. It’s quite impressive actually that a promotion with a small start and humble beginning has been able to attract so much attention around the world. As you’ve seen, they had a couple of folks from WWE visit there very recently.
AEW alumni CIMA took his STRONGHEARTS there. This place, it’s getting traction. I think that’s wonderful. It’s cool. It’d be great to test their athletes or go out there myself.” h/t Fightful
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