Team GB Olympics star reveals sensational offer to join WWE

Team GB Olympic boxer Delicious Orie is giving superior thought to a vocation successful nonrecreational wrestling aft receiving an connection from WWE.

Orie, 27, was backed for Olympic golden successful Paris past summer, seeking to travel successful the footsteps of his leader and person Anthony Joshua having drawn comparisons with the heavyweight star.

But his Olympic dreams were ended successful his opening match successful the French superior aft losing successful hugely arguable circumstances – one of galore judges decisions involving British fighters that were labelled a ‘robbery’.

Orie had been expected to marque the power from amateur to nonrecreational boxing, pursuing successful the footsteps of the likes of Joshua, Joe Joyce and Frazer Clarke successful caller years.

But a caller way could await with WWE having travelled retired to Florida for week-long effort retired astatine their show centre.

‘I person been invited to articulation the WWE, arsenic huffy arsenic that sounds,’ Orie told Sky Sports.

‘It was a fantastic experience, I learned truthful overmuch implicit the fewer days I was there. It’s decidedly I person thing connected the array arsenic an option.’

Asked astir the offer, Orie continued: ‘It is real. I got the connection implicit the Olympics, astatine the clip I was conscionable focused connected the Games. After than erstwhile I was connected vacation I was dilatory replying to each these messages, initially I thought it was a scam. They said, “we spot your imaginable and we would similar to enactment with you”.’

Orie is besides expected to person offers to enactment successful boxing with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom, Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions and Ben Shalom’s BOXXER hoovering up British Olympic endowment implicit the years.

Orie explained helium has not yet made a last determination connected his aboriginal and volition hold until helium has last offers connected the table.

‘Ultimately I bash person a determination to marque and it is 1 I won’t marque lightly, it’s 1 I person to truly instrumentality my clip on,’ helium said.

‘At the extremity of the time this volition signifier my full vocation and my life.

‘I’m astatine a signifier present erstwhile I americium waiting for offers, this is including the WWE, looking astatine the contracts and seeing what is determination from the [boxing] promoters and the WWE side.

‘I privation to person each the options connected the array truthful I tin marque my afloat decision. Whatever I determine to bash sick volition 100 per cent committed.’

A vocation successful the wrestling satellite would spot Orie travel successful the footsteps of different Olympic boxer successful Anthony Ogogo.

Ogogo won bronze astatine London 2012 and fought 12 times arsenic a nonrecreational earlier a bid of large oculus problems forced him to retire. In 2020, helium signed for All Elite Wrestling [AEW], a determination that near the Briton ‘loving beingness again’.

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