Tuface, Omawunmi join Ultimate Commander

Tuface, Omawunmi join Ultimate
Commander
on october 24, 2013 at 11:15 pm in sports
2face Idibia
Come December 6, Oriental Hotel, Lagos will thrill
guests to the best of wrestling as the world
heavyweight wrestling champion, Osita Offor, also
known as De Ultimate Commander, will defend his
title against Bobby Lashley of the United States Of
America.
The event, tagged Night of Legends the event,
which will see two Nigerian music superstars,
Tuface Idibia and Omawunmi, performing at
intervals during the wrestling extravaganza, is
being packaged by Aghalieaku Entertainment in
collaboration with popular Nigerian showbiz
promoter, Tee Mac Itseli. Aside from thrilling
wrestling fans with superlative tag-team bouts, the
event also aims at exposing guests coming from
different parts of the globe, especially the United
States of America to Nigerian arts and culture.
Speaking on the fight Thursday, Innocent Ujah
Idibia, better known by his stage name, Tuface
Idibia, said, “the Night of Legends will be a
wonderful thing to happen to Nigerians and the
country as a whole because for sometime now,
many of the other sports have been neglected and it
is a welcome development that Aghalieaku
Entertainment is reawakening some of them,
especially wrestling.
“Wrestling is a very wonderful sport and countries
across the globe are making millions of dollars from
it, so it will be a good thing if Nigeria could emulate
these countries to make the money and enjoy the
fun.
We should promote the sport to the extent that
Nigerians would be able to spend their weekends
going to the stadium to Commenting on the
collaboration, Tee Mac said the event  would
expose Nigeria to the outside world, stressing that
it will be likened to the legendry Mohammed Ali
Rumble in the Jungle fight that shook the world.
According to him, the night is going to be a battle of
the legend, as Nigerians are going to experience
what has never happened before in the history of
wrestling in the country. “It is going to be something
that has never happened since the famous fight of
Mohammed Ali’s Rumble in the jungle,” he added.
On the global coverage of the event, he said, “we
have got a very special agreement with major
television stations around the world that will
transmit the event live. We want to do something
nobody else has done with sports and music.”
Wrestlers expected to feature in the tag team fight
include Marty Wright (The Boogyman), Anthony
Mayweather (Crimson), Cliff Treiber (Domino), Troy
Martin (The Franchise Shane Douglas), Jason
Adams, David Njo Matike From Ghana, Jay Batista
and  Eric Milford. Others are Sione Vailahi (The
Barbarian), Junior Fatu (Rikishi) and Kevin Sullivan
Commenting in his readiness to fight, De Ultimate
Commander, who will be taking on Bobby Lashley,
said, “everybody knows that I have never lost any
fight, so it is going to be a great motivation for me to
have Nigerians watch me fight in the country. I will
be defending my championship belt against Bob
Lashley. I will be fighting for myself, the country and
the entire African continent. I really look forward to
seeing the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and
the various members of the National Assembly sit
among the audience to encourage and watch me
beat Bobby.”
Aghalieaku Entertainment Limited boss, Aghalieaku
Benjamin Arinze, informed that all hands are on
deck to present a superlative event to the world,
adding that the venue is secured and ready host
guests coming from different parts of the world.