Oba Femi believes he can change the way fans look at big men in professional wrestling.
WWE NXT Champion Oba Femi was a recent guest on Going Ringside. When asked about wanting to break the common stereotype of big men in professional wrestling, Femi said he wants to prove to fans that big men can be more than what they’re used to.
“The current big man is viewed as a lumbering buffoon who is gifted an opportunity solely because of the way he looks. I am here to tell the fans and condition them to believe that it’s more than that,” Oba Femi said. “That the big man can talk, can wrestle, has charisma, can cut a promo, can hold a program.
“That’s more than just, I’m not here because of just the way I look. I’m not here because I’m 6’5″, 6’6″, and 300 plus pounds, and I passed the airport test. No, that’s not why I’m here. I’m here because I’m an experience.”
When asked to elaborate on what the “airport test” means, Femi would go on to explain that term in detail.
“The airport test,” Oba Femi began. “So the airport test basically is when you walk into the terminal, do you turn heads? When you walk into a room, do you turn heads? Do people go, who’s that? He looks important. That’s the airport test. And I pass the airport test. Everywhere I go, I tower over everybody.” [H/T: Fightful]
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