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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Feb 27, 2021 20:50:29 GMT -5
Well. Looks like twitter is showing that Apollo spent even less time in Nigeria than Jinder in India. Or Kofi in Jamica LOL (I know) So i was right. That isn't racist sounding at all or anything...
Also people's reactions to the accent are way overblown. He still talks in his American accent for most of the promo only switching to a Nigerian accent when quoting his grandfather. He is an American who is embracing his roots. It's a man who is saying to himself "Why am I being treated like some sort of nobody? I'm the f***ing descendant of Tiv royalty. Time to get the respect I'm owed!"
Pretty much this Besides that, it isn't a fake accent either like he's putting on a British accent. No doubt he def talks with a accent with his family if anything and knows it.
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Post by avenger on Feb 28, 2021 14:02:06 GMT -5
They should put him together with Omos and Dabba-Kato. Nuhaa Nation!
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Feb 28, 2021 15:18:40 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, King Booker had a 🐐 one because the instant he got mad, the hood came right back out. You gotta code switch in your daily life to understand how funny that is
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Post by Cyno on Feb 28, 2021 15:22:20 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, King Booker had a 🐐 one because the instant he got mad, the hood came right back out. You gotta code switch in your daily life to understand how funny that is That was legit one of my favorite things about King Booker. And when he did a similar heel character during his Main Event Mafia run in TNA, only with a fake African accent.
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Post by MrElijah on Feb 28, 2021 15:24:04 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, King Booker had a 🐐 one because the instant he got mad, the hood came right back out. You gotta code switch in your daily life to understand how funny that is BATISTA IS DOWN! BATISTA IS DOWN! BATISTA IS DOWN!
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Post by Hypnosis on Feb 28, 2021 16:01:55 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, King Booker had a 🐐 one because the instant he got mad, the hood came right back out. You gotta code switch in your daily life to understand how funny that is Teddy:"King Booker, you have to defend the World title tonight!" Booker:"AWWW HAYELL NO!"
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Post by bob on Feb 28, 2021 22:37:29 GMT -5
only if he starts scamming people via email will he be truly evil
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2021 23:38:02 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, King Booker had a 🐐 one because the instant he got mad, the hood came right back out. You gotta code switch in your daily life to understand how funny that is Remember when he used to call Teddy Long "Thaddeus" lmao
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 13:26:45 GMT -5
![](https://media3.giphy.com/media/lKz9JSIXNF6WWAXCUw/giphy.gif) I loved his US run against Andrade, can't wait to see where this leads. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Mar 1, 2021 16:20:52 GMT -5
They should put him together with Omos and Dabba-Kato. Nuhaa Nation! Quoting because this post deserves all the love
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Post by 67 more on Mar 1, 2021 18:13:12 GMT -5
Speaking of accents, King Booker had a 🐐 one because the instant he got mad, the hood came right back out. You gotta code switch in your daily life to understand how funny that is Remember when he used to call Teddy Long "Thaddeus" lmao Did he call Tazz Tazzwell or Tazzworth, does anyone remember?
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Post by Tea & Crumpets on Mar 1, 2021 19:16:48 GMT -5
3 of my coworkers are Nigerian-born and raised. I'm almost tempted to show them this and see how they feel about it, whether they think it's cool. I think it's a cool idea to draw on his real life heritage like that but I kinda get the backlash if he's never actually connected with those roots before now. But hey it's his heritage, his life, his call. More power to him if this is what he wants and it FINALLY gives him an actual character after all these years.
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Post by Fake Jesus on Mar 1, 2021 21:18:14 GMT -5
So he's basically Nigerian Jinder. Ok. Needs some goons tho. Well. Looks like twitter is showing that Apollo spent even less time in Nigeria than Jinder in India. Or Kofi in Jamica LOL (I know) So i was right. Update: Twitter police investigation continues: Apollo is 2nd generation born and raised in America. He only speaks English Are you familiar with who colonised Nigeria?
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Post by Cyno on Mar 1, 2021 23:01:14 GMT -5
3 of my coworkers are Nigerian-born and raised. I'm almost tempted to show them this and see how they feel about it, whether they think it's cool. I think it's a cool idea to draw on his real life heritage like that but I kinda get the backlash if he's never actually connected with those roots before now. But hey it's his heritage, his life, his call. More power to him if this is what he wants and it FINALLY gives him an actual character after all these years. Both his parents are from Nigeria. He also wrestled as Uhaa Nation in the indies at first (taking the ring name from his real name of Sesugh Uhaa). He was born in the US, but if it's anything like how my own mom grew up as the daughter of immigrants, you're brought up in their home culture as much as the American one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 5:04:29 GMT -5
I mean... I GET why some would think it's racist. But maybe... he's proud of his heritage?
I dig Apollo as a talent, so if he wants to do a Nigerian Prince gimmick and he feels comfortable with that then I'm all for it. Any character for him is a step forward in my book.
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Post by dbrussel on Mar 2, 2021 12:40:53 GMT -5
Well. Looks like twitter is showing that Apollo spent even less time in Nigeria than Jinder in India. Or Kofi in Jamica LOL (I know) So i was right. Update: Twitter police investigation continues: Apollo is 2nd generation born and raised in America. He only speaks English Are you familiar with who colonised Nigeria? Yes. I'm from South Africa. English is not my 1st language. We have 12 official languages here actually. Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa are the more common nigerian dialects. I went to college with a Nigerian guy who spoke Yoruba & English. For him those who only speak english were not true blood Naijas
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Post by lucas_lee on Mar 2, 2021 12:56:42 GMT -5
So he's basically Nigerian Jinder. Ok. Needs some goons tho. Well. Looks like twitter is showing that Apollo spent even less time in Nigeria than Jinder in India. Or Kofi in Jamica LOL (I know) So i was right. Update: Twitter police investigation continues: Apollo is 2nd generation born and raised in America. He only speaks English Please stop
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Mar 2, 2021 14:35:21 GMT -5
Are you familiar with who colonised Nigeria? Yes. I'm from South Africa. English is not my 1st language. We have 12 official languages here actually. Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa are the more common nigerian dialects. I went to college with a Nigerian guy who spoke Yoruba & English. For him those who only speak english were not true blood Naijas Alright rather than play coy let's actually dig in here: Jinder Mahal has, for all of his career, been booked as being from Punjab. They ignored not only that he is an immigrant, but ignored his family's wrestling history as the nephew of Indian-born Stampede Wrestling star Gama Singh (yes, the one in TNA right now.) His "Modern Day Maharaja" gimmick and his entire presentation were not of an immigrant connecting himself to his heritage, but of a wealthy Indian superstar who was beloved the country he was billed as being from and presented as a major piece of. Hell, I've always criticized the element of that gimmick; there seemed like way more meat in Jinder as a Bruno-style immigrant hero than there was in the foreign heel gimmick even before we accounted for the weird pandering shit they got into. Crews right there in his promo said he is a "true African American". He is in no way being presented as from Nigeria himself, but as a first generation immigrant. As somebody whose family line included powerful people, which he believes entitles him not to that same linage in that same land, but to respect and power now in the place he is. The nature of being from somewhere and being an immigrant are wildly different things, and I can't speak to your own heritage or where you feel you fall into that, but those stories are not only distinct and entirely different, but to immigrants, those stories have a lot of importance, and you seem to be missing out on heaps of that context, given you're treating facts everyone already knows and which are clear in his promo as being big twitter investigation revelations.
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Post by dbrussel on Mar 2, 2021 17:10:09 GMT -5
Yes. I'm from South Africa. English is not my 1st language. We have 12 official languages here actually. Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa are the more common nigerian dialects. I went to college with a Nigerian guy who spoke Yoruba & English. For him those who only speak english were not true blood Naijas Alright rather than play coy let's actually dig in here: Jinder Mahal has, for all of his career, been booked as being from Punjab. They ignored not only that he is an immigrant, but ignored his family's wrestling history as the nephew of Indian-born Stampede Wrestling star Gama Singh (yes, the one in TNA right now.) His "Modern Day Maharaja" gimmick and his entire presentation were not of an immigrant connecting himself to his heritage, but of a wealthy Indian superstar who was beloved the country he was billed as being from and presented as a major piece of. Hell, I've always criticized the element of that gimmick; there seemed like way more meat in Jinder as a Bruno-style immigrant hero than there was in the foreign heel gimmick even before we accounted for the weird pandering shit they got into. Crews right there in his promo said he is a "true African American". He is in no way being presented as from Nigeria himself, but as a first generation immigrant. As somebody whose family line included powerful people, which he believes entitles him not to that same linage in that same land, but to respect and power now in the place he is. The nature of being from somewhere and being an immigrant are wildly different things, and I can't speak to your own heritage or where you feel you fall into that, but those stories are not only distinct and entirely different, but to immigrants, those stories have a lot of importance, and you seem to be missing out on heaps of that context, given you're treating facts everyone already knows and which are clear in his promo as being big twitter investigation revelations. Good point. But remember when Jinder debuted on SD long time ago as Khali's brother in law? And then a few days later people on twitter claimed he was Canadian? That made difficult to believe he knew Khali's sister. The angle ended quickly & he was sent to NXT. That's what I fear here. I hope this story is better explained, like why his family left Nigeria if they were royal offspring
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Mar 2, 2021 17:37:45 GMT -5
Alright rather than play coy let's actually dig in here: Jinder Mahal has, for all of his career, been booked as being from Punjab. They ignored not only that he is an immigrant, but ignored his family's wrestling history as the nephew of Indian-born Stampede Wrestling star Gama Singh (yes, the one in TNA right now.) His "Modern Day Maharaja" gimmick and his entire presentation were not of an immigrant connecting himself to his heritage, but of a wealthy Indian superstar who was beloved the country he was billed as being from and presented as a major piece of. Hell, I've always criticized the element of that gimmick; there seemed like way more meat in Jinder as a Bruno-style immigrant hero than there was in the foreign heel gimmick even before we accounted for the weird pandering shit they got into. Crews right there in his promo said he is a "true African American". He is in no way being presented as from Nigeria himself, but as a first generation immigrant. As somebody whose family line included powerful people, which he believes entitles him not to that same linage in that same land, but to respect and power now in the place he is. The nature of being from somewhere and being an immigrant are wildly different things, and I can't speak to your own heritage or where you feel you fall into that, but those stories are not only distinct and entirely different, but to immigrants, those stories have a lot of importance, and you seem to be missing out on heaps of that context, given you're treating facts everyone already knows and which are clear in his promo as being big twitter investigation revelations. Good point. But remember when Jinder debuted on SD long time ago as Khali's brother in law? And then a few days later people on twitter claimed he was Canadian? That made difficult to believe he knew Khali's sister. The angle ended quickly & he was sent to NXT. That's what I fear here. I hope this story is better explained, like why his family left Nigeria if they were royal offspring That's not even close to the right timeline; the Jinder/Khali feud was a year before Jinder's stint in NXT, Jinder being Canadian had absolutely nothing to do with that, and I don't really believe that 2011 wrestling twitter saying Jinder was Canadian had anything to do with that decision. 2011 may feel like forever ago, but it wasn't "People didn't know wrestling wasn't real" levels of forever.
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