De Hardman: stepping into pro wrestling greatness in Nigeria!
‘’The wonderful experience I gathered morning and evening for one week which made me to be featured in the Tony Destroyer Memorial pro wrestling Tournament of May 28thh 2022 has taught me a great lesson that with the right attitude, determination and focus, nothing, I mean nothing is impossible in life,’’ explained De Hardman during an interview session after he fairly competed with 6.5, a great and talented grappler of appreciable repute who has been training and competing for close to a decade in the Nigerian pro wrestling arenas.
De Hardman
The young, stylish and upcoming superstar who has been competing in Abuja, the federal capital, and Akure in Ondo state environs of late, took a week leave and stormed Lagos to acquired more training and Jimmy Palm, the African Dream, took him up on the training aspect which qualified him to wrestle during the Tony Destroyer Memorial wrestling show in Lagos. He added the skills he has acquired over the years since he started the grunt and groan game training in Abuja to the intensive training knowledge he acquired in Lagos to shine at the event. He gave kudos to Jimmy Palm for the magic performed to turn him into a superstar within one week.
Group photograph with other Nigerian wrestling talents and stakeholders
‘’Though professional wrestling is my passion and I have been watching the sport as a kid, I have a list of my favourite talents and Roman Reigns is the best among them all as he stands out.” Roman, whose real name as Leati Joseph Anoa’i, is an American professional wrestler, actor, and former professional gridiron football player. “I love Roman Reigns with a passion. I am eagerly looking forward to meeting him personally in the future. He is indeed my role model,’’ declared De Hardman.
From left: Lion Bone, De Hardman, Eagle De Great Nail and Olusesan Olukoya
De Hardman, whose real name is Tochuckwu Johnson, has plans to reign supreme in the world of Nigerian, African and even world professional wrestling among the toughest and the roughest in the industry. Only time will tell about the exploits of De Hardman in the world of professional wrestling.
Editors Note: The story and career of De Hardman is a special one to WrestleMap. Hardman reached out to WrestleMap through Facebook after seeing some of the matches that we helped to share from previous Nigeria Pro Wrestling Federation events looking for the opportunity to train and become a pro wrestler. We helped point him in the right direction to seek out the proper training and now to see him making his debut on an NPWF event is awesome. Helping potential pro wrestlers around the world discover their local wrestling scenes and have an opportunity to live out their dreams and goals in the ring was a major goal of the WrestleMap project when making the initial decision to launch the site. It’s amazing to see both the dreams and goals that we set for WrestleMap coming true at the same time as the dreams and goals of De Hardman are beginning to come true.
We’ll have more coverage of the Tony Destroyer Memorial wrestling event in the days to come. We’re hopeful that we’ll be able to provide a more in depth look at the matches and provide some results…and hopefully even some video!
In some related news, a general meeting is planned for this Saturday, June 4, at the National Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria. Wrestlers, promoters and stakeholders are all invited to attend the meeting which is set to discuss the future and way forward for the NPWF and other Nigerian pro wrestling promotions.
