Sidney Akeem talks the 24/7 Championship.
After spending time as the managers of Carmella, Sasha Banks, and Nia Jax/Shayna Baszler, Akeem, then known as Reginald or Reggie, began to chase the 24/7 Championship. Throughout a few months, Akeem was able to notch four seperate reigns with the title.
While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, Akeem talked about his stint in the 24/7 division and how it was a cool time for him.
"Oh my goodness, it's incredible because I went from stuff with Carmella and Sasha and then one random day, Nia and Shayna enters the picture and I said, ‘Oh, I'm no longer on SmackDown, I'm with Nia and Shayna.’ We did all of that amazing stuff, amazing stuff. Then one day I hear, it was like right before we started to go back on the road. It was the week or two before we were going on the road. I heard that this is the direction we're going to move towards. I said, ‘Okay, we don't know when it's going to happen.’ But then come that next Monday, first show on the road, ‘You are going to win the 24/7 title.’ I'm like, ‘Okay.’ When that happened, I didn't really know what to expect. But it was my first time in front of a crowd, a live crowd, and I won the 24-7 title. Man, that time was just so incredible because everything was new for me. Being in front of that crowd was new, walking out hearing those noises and they knew who I was. They were like genuinely cheering and like ‘Reggie!’ and all that and it was cool. Then they turned on me when Nia turned on me and then the 24/7 stuff happened. I hit Tozawa with the spinning cross body. They cheered for me, come this way, come this way. I just experienced everything in like a WWE crowd in one moment. It was, it was pretty dope."
Akeem went on to talk about how many of his segments and matches with the 24/7 Championship garnered a ton of views on YouTube.
"So I've checked some numbers. A lot of those numbers, I'm like, ‘Oh, my goodness. I didn't know that those were that high.’ One that you did mention was the first time I did my entrance with R-Truth. That on TikTok did, I think it was over like a hundred something. Yeah. Not thousand, a hundred or close to—it was high. It was high for a long time and I recall that because they put it on the screen every time I came out. Well, now TikTok, the highest viewed TikTok in all of entertainment or whatever. I'm like, ‘That is cool.’ I didn't really check it out, but I was aware that I was getting high numbers and people wanted to see it and it was entertaining. took that as a pride thing because I am different. I am very much so not from a traditional wrestling background, but I've always been a true entertainer and that's what this business is."
Elsewhere in the interview, Akeem talked about wrestling Sasha Banks in an intergender bout. Learn more by clicking here.
Also, check out Fightful's full interview with Sidney Akeem in the video linked at the top of this article.
