GWF set to revolutionalize African wrestling, says Golden Boy

The current AIWF Golden Age heavyweight champion and titleholder who is also a three time AIWF National Heavyweight champion/Latin America champion who runs the Golden Wrestling Federacy (GWF) with headquarter in Florida, USA under the auspices of AIWF “The Golden Boy” Jim McDowell has assured that the activities of the Florida based organization would revolutionize the grunt and groan game in Africa to what is obtainable in the western world.
The champion who is a talented actor, producer, a stylish professional and a skillful wrestler of over three decades; is a trained dentist and a director and a man of many parts who started his pro-wrestling career over thirty years ago and it surprises anyone that cares to listen to his story how he manages as a dentist and also competes favorably as a professional, wrestler mostly in Florida where he is based and around other American states whenever there are events.
As a practicing dentist, some describe him as “Jim of all trade and master of all” and I want to also believe in that wise saying.
“I have been to Africa. Africa is the world’s second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia.
“I was in Douala and Yaoundé in Cameroon, Central Africa in July 2023. I saw talented youths in Cameroon. I saw great potentials in Africa. Raw, able and agile youths waiting to be tapped into. Africa’s population as a whole is very young, with 60% of the entire continent aged below 25, making it the youngest continent in the world, in relation to its population makeup. I saw the need to contribute my quota to the development of these raw skillful talents’’ explained the Golden Boy.
“Africa’s youth population is growing rapidly and will reach 850 million by 2050 and by 2063, young people will constitute half of the 2 billion working-age population.
“Africa will remain the world’s youngest region, with a median age of 25 years. This research work has propelled me to want to contribute my quota in the continent’s youth development through Professional wrestling.
” I see world pro -wrestling champions if they are well trained, guided and promoted coming from the continent and that was my main reason of setting up the Professional Wrestling Training for West African Athletes where myself with former AIWF World pro -wrestling champion and title holder, Damien Wayne would be handling the training’’ Jim emphasized.
Jim must have seen something, yes what some of us who are into the professional wrestling Industry in Africa have not seen as an opportunity to be tapped out. Some West African nations have indicated interest to participate in the training of the young talents in February 2024.
“On the percentage of unemployed youths in Africa, facts emerged in 2023 that 11.2 percent of the African youth, those aged between 15 and 24 years old, were recorded as unemployed.
According to data from the International Labor Organization, this figure hasn’t changed in the two preceding years as well. Now if we train 20 youths from 15 West African nations, 300 youths would have been empowered and 3,000 youths would be raised from the exploits of the 300 trained as they would see them as their role models and before you know it, lots of people would have been empowered” the Golden boy concluded.