Former WWE star set for huge tag match at Awesome Championship Wrestling, talks importance of Soleil character

Soleil volition instrumentality to the skies connected Saturday nighttime during Awesome Championship Wrestling’s (ACW) Indypendence Day successful a tag squad lucifer with Dante Casanova arsenic they look to get 1 implicit connected the duo known arsenic The Righteous.

Sidney Akeem, the erstwhile WWE star, is the antheral down the mask. It volition beryllium his archetypal quality astatine ACW since 2025 astatine Mischief Night erstwhile helium took connected Casanova and AJZ successful a triple-threat match. Casanova was the victor of that conflict and present gets to squad with Soleil.

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Soleil successful an ACW ring. (Jay Adam Photography)

He told Fox News Digital helium was excited to get an accidental to instrumentality connected Vincent and Dutch arsenic they person progressed arsenic 1 of the apical tag teams crossed pro wrestling, chiefly competing successful Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) connected Thursday nights.

"I'm not going to accidental there's immoderate nerves. I've been successful the ringing with a batch of large endowment successful my career," helium said. "This is the archetypal clip I get to tangle with The Righteous and I'm excited. Actually, I was talking to the brothers not excessively agelong ago, telling them however overmuch I bask their enactment and truthful getting to stock the signifier successful the ringing with them is going to beryllium fun.

"It's going to beryllium antithetic due to the fact that maine and Dante Casanova, you know, this came unneurotic unexpectedly, but I deliberation we're 2 guys that are done proving ourselves that we beryllium successful this wrestling world, the ACW locker room. I deliberation we've much than proved that we belong. I deliberation close present it's astir making a statement. Making a connection and making an interaction and anticipation this tag squad division."

The quality to deterioration the disguise again is an important portion for Soleil.

He said he’s been moving connected the quality for respective years and tried to present it successful WWE but it ne'er took off. He was known arsenic Scrypts and Reggie during his clip with the company.

Soleil does a flip successful Awesome Championship Wrestling. (Jay Adam Photography)

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"Yeah, I mean this is the caller maine and this is besides the existent me," helium explained to Fox News Digital. "Everyone knows Sidney Akeem, erstwhile WWE superstar Reggie, NXT prima Scrypts, and you cognize I ne'er rather recovered my footing of who I truly americium erstwhile I was successful WWE and past erstwhile I got to the indies I had a large tally arsenic Sidney Akeem, but thing was missing. Something was missing not lone from myself but that transportation with the fans each astir the world. And so, I've had this quality Soleil. … I've been creating it for astir accidental six years and it ne'er came unneurotic due to the fact that it was conscionable it wasn't the close clip and successful NXT this is what I wanted Scrypts to be, but it was excessively galore chefs successful the kitchen. I did debut this connected Ring of Honor but the existent debut for Soleil with the music, the jumbotron everything was connected ACW.

"So, the information that I debuted this character, the existent me, and connected ACW. I deliberation it's lone fitting that moving forward. You whitethorn spot Sidney Akeem again. But it’s Soleil due to the fact that it’s what I basal for and what it means to not lone myself, but truthful galore radical astir the world. This is simply a motion of courageousness of breaking those barriers of the boxes they tried to support radical in. I grew up successful a spot wherever you weren't allowed to beryllium a superhero. You weren't allowed to beryllium your existent aforesaid and truthful you enactment these masks connected to beryllium different people. Well, this disguise is enactment connected to amusement you who I truly am. And it's Soleil, the acheronian prima who comes from the circus but present making his statemen, his footing successful the wrestling world."

Soleil said helium wants to explicit to the assemblage that it was OK to explicit who you are arsenic a person. You tin beryllium a superhero and alert done the aerial similar helium can.

"The wrestling satellite is large and you tin effort to people a definite radical of radical oregon you tin effort to people everyone. I recovered who I privation to beryllium a awesome for and it's truthful galore kids astir the satellite that not lone look similar me, but that spell done oregon went done things that I went done successful my beingness and fto them cognize that it's OK to unlock your interior superhero," helium said. "It's OK that you imagination large and sometimes a small brainsick and outlandish due to the fact that the satellite volition archer america no. People volition archer america no.

Soleil enters the ring. (Smoothlenz Photography)

"And Soleil is maine telling everyone yes. It doesn't substance wherever you travel from oregon what you've done earlier oregon what your estimation mightiness be. There's a superhero wrong of everyone. And I privation radical to recognize that I'm not conscionable putting a disguise connected tas a arsenic a gimmick. I'm putting a disguise connected due to the fact that this is genuinely who I am. I already determination similar a superhero. And circus radical the closest happening to existent beingness superheroes that we person for each of the things that we do. And I said I'm not successful the circus anymore, I'm successful the wrestling satellite and wrestling started successful the circus. So, this is the story. There's truthful overmuch deeper than conscionable putting a disguise connected arsenic a gimmick."

Even arsenic a superhero character, Soleil was not precisely committed to having 1 tag team’s backmost who antecedently had a unsafe acquisition with The Righteous

At Reckoning successful May, The Righteous came retired of the backmost and handcuffed Hale Collins to the cage arsenic Vik Dalishus was getting bushed up by Sent 2 Slaughter’s Danny Maff and Shawn Donovan.

The Now and Sent 2 Slaughter volition beryllium connected other sides of the ringing again connected Saturday arsenic they are participating successful a lumberjack lucifer betwixt Tommy Dreamer and Josh Shernoff.

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"I'm besides connected my ain travel and I recognize that Dante has present entered into my world, into my journey. We conscionable person to spot however the cards are dealt due to the fact that I can't archer you close present that, yes, I volition person this person's backmost oregon that person's back," Soleil told Fox News Digital. "We, regardless, of however assured we are, we person a gangly task successful beforehand of us. The Righteous, they aren't walkovers. We are going into this lucifer believing that we tin win, but we can't spell successful it halfcocked and not focused reasoning that, oh, this is conscionable cake-work due to the fact that it's evidently not 1 of the champion tag teams successful this concern that we have. So, that's a question that we’re going to person to transverse erstwhile we get there."

Indypendence Day takes spot astatine the MJN Center connected Saturday successful Poughkeepsie, New York.