Wrestling: DE Hardman: Tomorrow’s Superstar today

Hardman, the Pro Wrestling Africa (PWA) wrestler in the middle weight category is a young wrestler of note who is fast earning himself a reputation of making life miserable for his numerous opponents round the Nigerian wrestling scenes and beyond.

25 years old De Hardman who had his real name as Tochukwu Johnson was nurtured by the legendary Jimmy Palm “The African Dream” . He was inspired into joining the league of Nigerian pro- wrestlers and after years of trying to figure out how to break into the mats man sport, he was introduced to Jimmy Palm who also runs the African Wrestling Organization (AWO) who trained him to a standard any wrestler can dream of.

This determined wrestler hails from Okpulumuobu, Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State, a state in the Southeastern part of Nigeria with Umuahia as state capital where we have the major commercial city as Aba which is also one of the most populated areas in Nigeria. Abia State was created in 1991 from part of Imo State.

De Hardman who would like to compete internationally has been training hard to showcase himself that what those international talents can do, he can indeed do better when he gets down to the midst of roughest and toughest talents in the grunt and groan sport with modern training gadgets at his disposal coupled with the experience he has acquired back home in Nigeria.

‘’Wrestling is my passion. I dream wrestling, sleep wrestling and eat wrestling. I have been watching professional wrestling from childhood and I have many wrestlers as role models but Roman Reigns stands out as my role model.
He has no rival with me. Come sun come rain I will vote Roan as the best among the best. Roman, whose real name is Leati Joseph Anoa’i, He’s my Idol and I sincerely cherish the American professional wrestler, actor, and former professional gridiron football player. I love him with a passion and he is indeed my role model’’ declared De Hardman.