Oba Femi Compares His March To The Ring To Ric Flair’s Strut, Wants To Embody ‘Aura’ Like Undertaker
Oba Femi discusses his aura and compares his march to the ring and the Buddy Rogers and Ric Flair strut.
Oba Femi is one of the top stars in today’s WWE NXT. Fans have become captivated by his massive personality and his intensity in between the ropes. During a recent interview with Bill Pritchard of WrestleZone, he discussed his entrance and marching to the ring by comparing it to the strut that Ric Flair has used for decades on end.
“Well, the march to the ring especially, it has more to do with the entrance theme song than it has to do with any necessary character presentation,” said Femi. “People have definitely seen that strut before, but most people are not sure where they’ve seen it. If you look from the Buddy Rogers to the Ric Flair to the Oba Femis, it’s the same thing. It’s just done slightly differently, and there are different renditions of it. It flows with the beat. The strut and all that stuff, a lot of those additions have been, again, organic, because it goes with the beat, so I started doing it and I kept doing it because it made sense.”
Speaking on, Femi revealed that he would prefer to soak in all of the time on camera that an entrance allows, similar to how The Undertaker approached his entrance as opposed to someone who tries to run to the ring.
“It felt like a march to war,” he continued. “As a march of confidence as opposed to a charge. I’ve never understood why your music hits and then you bolt to the ring and you spend as little time on camera as possible. What is that? Why are you doing my personal why are you running? There’s no need to do that. If you take your time, there’s a certain comfort and confidence that goes with that. Look at The Undertaker’s entrance. It takes 10 minutes, but that’s 10 minutes of anticipation, confidence, and aura. So that’s the same thing I tried to adapt.”
Next time Femi marches to the ring to defend his NXT North American Title, it will be against Wes Lee at WWE NXT Heatwave, and it will be Lee’s final chance to win the championship. Check out the full card for the event here.
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