At the Bumbash Wrestling Academy in Mukono, a group of young Ugandans train with the hope of making the cut on the global stage with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in the United States. Despite the challenges of poverty and spartan living conditions, the wrestlers nonetheless remain hopeful of pursuing their dream of international glory.
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00:00 [CHANTING]
00:17 So soft ground is a backyard kind of wrestling, where we
00:21 don't use the mat, we don't use the ring, we don't have
00:23 staircases, but everything pulled here is realistic.
00:28 It's real, it's professional wrestling.
00:30 And with time, people will start embracing it.
00:33 [CHANTING]
00:42 We were watching those of the whites, but we never knew that
00:47 one day we saw we Ugandans could get the chance of having
00:51 wrestling in Uganda.
00:53 So the moment I discovered in Uganda we also have wrestling
00:56 academy, I had to run very fast because that was my dream
01:00 come true.
01:01 [CHANTING]
01:08 Most of the people think that we ladies, we cannot manage
01:12 that, but I think we are acting as an example to the
01:16 ladies outside there.
01:18 Yes, we are still pushing, and we shall continue pushing.
01:24 [CHANTING]
01:39 I believe that wrestling is going to take these people far,
01:42 far away, far beyond seas, and see, learn, and come back and
01:46 invest, lift the young ones they've left behind, mold them,
01:52 make them love the game.
01:53 And before you know it, Uganda is going to be known as a
01:56 nation of pro wrestling.
01:57 [CHANTING]
02:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]