Meet the New Nigerian Wrestler That Just Signed For WWE

By Olamide Oyetunji - Nigerians are no longer few in the business of sporting entertainment and the leading brands like AEW, WWE and Impact Wrestling all have wrestlers with Nigerian descent.

World Wrestling Entertainment have acquired another entertainer who is a Nigerian by birth from Southern region of the most populous black nation.

Edris Enofe, real name Inyene Umoh is proudly Nigerian and has joined the famous company since late 2021 following the tryouts in Las Vegas during the SummerSlam period.

Inyene Umoh is a United States Navy veteran and WWE officially filed to trademark the name of company star “Edris Enofe,” who debuted on the November 19th episode of 205 Live, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for entertainment and merchandising purposes.

The filing was made on November 16th, with a full detailed description of what that entails in the summary below.

Mark For: EDRIS ENOFÉ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of entertainment services, namely, wrestling exhibitions and performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer rendered live and through broadcast media including television and radio, and via the internet or commercial online service; providing wrestling news and information via a global computer network; providing information in the fields of sports and entertainment via an online community portal; providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information; fan club services, namely, organizing sporting events in the field of wrestling for wrestling fan club members; organizing social entertainment events for entertainment purposes for wrestling fan club members; providing online newsletters in the fields of sports entertainment; online journals, namely blogs, in the field of sports entertainment. Inyene Umoh has joined the likes of Babatunde Aiyegbusi, Sesugh Uhaa and Jordan Omogbehin on the current World Wrestling Entertainment roaster not forgetting E.J Nduka who worked with the WWE until last year.

He is currently competing under the NXT 2.0 brand and has won some matches against Malik Blade,Von Wagner and Guru Raaj.