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The Rise Of Michael Oku & Amira Blair
MICHAEL OKU SAT in the dressing room of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. Outside, the February night air was chilly. Inside, the temperature—like the atmosphere an hour earlier—was hot. Though the crowd that came to see Revolution Pro Wrestling’s High Stakes show had long since filed out of the building, the weary Oku still hadn’t unlaced his boots. Instead, he’d been replaying in his mind what he had just done.
In the days that would follow, the main event clash he’d just had against Will Ospreay would be awarded six stars in a review by Dave Meltzer, while some social media users heralded it as perhaps the best match in British wrestling history. Oku’s career as he knew it had just changed