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And NEW World Champion …

IF YOU SAID I could … if you said I couldn’t … thank you.” Thus reads a tweet by the newly crowned Suge D, composed the night he fulfilled a mission that even he thought might be impossible. Indeed, the veteran grappler—who proudly embraces the label “journeyman” after competing around the globe for two decades—had twice tried to unseat Trish Adora as the Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Wrestling champion. On Sunday, October 15, 2023, he was finally successful in his third attempt.

“This is the real deal … and I feel like there’s like such a weight and a responsibility to go with that, and I’m still letting it sink in,” Suge said, speaking with a few days after likely the biggest win of his career.

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