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00:00A wrestling scandal potentially exposed?

00:02How much WWE paid The Rock?

00:05Ooooooh, good news for Roman Reigns!

00:08And more.

00:09I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:14Get a bonus exclusive survival series by joining Patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk now!

00:20Earlier this year, soft ground wrestling Uganda became an internet sensation.

00:24Clips shared online showed a roster of young, aspiring wrestlers from the Ugandan capital

00:28of Kampala in Africa, who wrestled with all passion and no frills.

00:33The most noticeably missing frill being an actual ring.

00:37Because the soft ground name of the promotion was a shoot, brother, they wrestled on a mud

00:41floor.

00:42Names like Coolman, Hammis Diamond and Lord White even got coverage from the Associated

00:47Press.

00:48It captured the hearts of both wrestling fans and actual wrestlers, with Will Ospreay, Mesa

00:53Mansoor, even WWE Champion Cody Rhodes boosting the promotion.

00:58It recalled a simpler time in wrestling, like the backyard scene in the 90s and noughties

01:02where someone like Ospreay first started out.

01:05Fans raised the promotion tens of thousands of dollars online.

01:08Notable wrestlers like former AEW star CIMA and former WWE stars now with AEW Mesa Mansoor

01:14actually travelled to Uganda to wrestle in matches to help raise their profile more.

01:19But now, in a report from Bodyslam.net, the promotion's founder is being accused of

01:24mismanaging those funds.

01:26The promoter of soft ground wrestling is Daniel Bumbash.

01:29Bodyslam.net describes him as a longtime wrestling fan who has a professional background translating

01:34American wrestling matches for Ugandan audiences, and he's worked as a television presenter

01:39in the past.

01:40He is also soft ground wrestling's principal wrestling trainer, despite having no apparent

01:45formal training himself.

01:46Bodyslam.net alleges that with SGW's growing popularity, Bumbash focused his company's

01:53idea that SGW was a haven for young orphans with nowhere to go, no education, nothing

01:58to eat and no prospects for a better future.

02:01This inspired the fundraising efforts.

02:04An American teen was first to reach out to help, offering to start a GoFundMe.

02:07Bumbash declared the teen the US Ambassador for SGW, and the campaign to raise $10,000

02:14to buy the promotion a proper wrestling ring was launched.

02:17Will Ospreay donated $2,000.

02:19Jordan Grace gave $200.

02:22Daniel Garcia gave $100.

02:24The rest came from wrestling fans, and the GoFundMe was successful.

02:28Bodyslam.net reports, though, that the American teen was then suspended from Twitter after

02:32a campaign of online harassment accusing him of not sending the money to Uganda.

02:37They allege that what really happened was that the teen was in over their head, as international

02:41money transfers can be pretty complex.

02:44GoFundMe was unable to send funds directly to Uganda, so they ended up being sent to

02:49a UK person with dual Ugandan citizenship to then be sent to SGW.

02:53A large chunk of these donations were reportedly lost due to these transfer and currency conversion

02:58fees, which made Bumbash furious over the delays, and he began blaming the very people

03:04who were working hard on his behalf.

03:07Bodyslam.net say they have several sources that said Bumbash was pushy and abusive to

03:11the GoFundMe organiser, with one alleged text message from Bumbash reading,

03:15I abused the fundraising volunteer badly.

03:19Once provoked, I become a snake.

03:21Allegedly, Bumbash also recorded a video where SGW trainees spoke about how they had been

03:26ripped off by the GoFundMe campaign, and he threatened to release it if he didn't get

03:30the money.

03:31With the international transfer fees coming out of the GoFundMe total, there wasn't

03:35enough left to buy a ring.

03:36So Bumbash released a video saying they would use it to build an office and food storage

03:40area instead.

03:41But Bodyslam.net alleges that those buildings had been in place since at least October,

03:46before the GoFundMe took place.

03:48With the first fundraising effort not being able to buy SGW a ring, Mason Mansoor arranged

03:53and achieved the Dream Charity Stream in May.

03:56The event brought together stars from across the wrestling world, like AEW World Champion

04:00Swerve Strickland, TNA and NXT star Joe Hendry, WWE wrestler Nikki Cross and reporter Sean

04:07Ross Sapp.

04:08The stream was a huge success, raising nearly $30,000, with Mansoor's own mum donating

04:14the amount of money to buy SGW a van so they could travel around for shows.

04:19And then came the biggest endorsement so far.

04:22WWE Champion Cody Rhodes released a video announcing he was going to buy a fully funded

04:27ring for SGW to be built locally, to get around all the logistical problems of shipping a

04:33ring from elsewhere to Uganda.

04:36Bombash then started to talk about running a 50,000 seat stadium show, and claimed SGW

04:41had signed an agreement with Ugandan TV channel MBS Sport to air the promotion.

04:46Bodyslam.net tried to verify the TV deal with MBS Sport, but was met with silence.

04:50They also reached out to Bombash himself, who supplied unsigned paperwork suggesting

04:55there was no actual signed contract.

04:58Bodyslam then tried to look up Soft Ground Wrestling or the Bombash Wrestling Academy

05:02on the Ugandan Registration Services Bureau, but there were no results, meaning SGW is

05:07neither a legal business, charity, orphanage, school or any other type of entity as far

05:13as the laws of Uganda are concerned.

05:15Bombash allegedly couldn't supply Bodyslam with a valid certificate, insisting there

05:19was an error on the Ugandan government website.

05:22The reason this legal corporation stuff is so important is that it means all the cash

05:26donations raised and the van bought by Mansoor's mum are in the personal name of Bombash, as

05:31opposed to a company called SGW.

05:34So what happened to that $30,000 raised by the Achieve the Dream stream?

05:39According to Bodyslam, the funds were sent to somebody else in SGW, not Bombash himself,

05:44to avoid the problems of the first fundraiser.

05:47Bombash has allegedly made repeated threats to that person, becoming infuriated and making

05:51veiled threats when he was accused of mishandling money.

05:54People who cared about the students didn't want to see any more cash disappear, and there

05:58was a faction that was growing to distrust Bombash more by the day.

06:02And what happened to that van?

06:03In a since-deleted social media post from June 4th, SGW said students and talent had

06:08gone out to donate to the poor and disabled people using wrestling as an umbrella.

06:13They allegedly used the van Mansoor's mum bought to make those trips.

06:17But then, a month later, the charity Nova Talent Elevation Africa replied to news reports

06:22covering this that they did these things, and they have no business relationship with

06:28SGW.

06:29The photos that were used in that post were actually from a TikTok event in 2023, and

06:34the van was a different van.

06:36Bombash told Bodyslam he's never lied.

06:39When asked about the van post, he replied, we are stronger no matter what, we are rectifying

06:43that.

06:44For what it's worth, Bombash has posted a statement on the SGWX account, where he

06:48claims to have proof of purchase for what they bought from the Achieve the Dream stream,

06:52including the van, and that the MBS TV deal is still in the works.

06:56He blames much of the Bodyslam article on the former SGW wrestler Lord White, who he

07:01alleges has a vendetta against him.

07:03To which Cassidy Haynes, the Bodyslam reporter replied, funny, he's trying to paint this

07:07like we only spoke to one person.

07:09Not the case at all.

07:10More lies from Bombash.

07:12Shocking.

07:13Bombash claims they are still working with Cody Rhodes to get an actual wrestling ring

07:17delivered to an accessible port sooner than later.

07:20But that somewhat contradicts Cody's original idea of funding a ring that would be built

07:24locally so it wouldn't need to come over on a boat.

07:27But how about WWE and all the money they're making?

07:30Yesterday was the most magical tri-monthly time of the year, WWE's quarterly investors

07:35reports.

07:36And the Q2 report revealed how much Rock was paid for his new role on the TKO Board of

07:40Directors and his WrestleMania return match.

07:43The report confirms the $30 million amount that Johnson received for joining the board,

07:48which had been paid out as expenses of $6.7 million in Q1 and $15.7 million in Q2.

07:55In addition to these, he received $700,000 through the sale of products using his IP,

08:01and $3.1 million worth of reimbursements for travel expenses.

08:07Damn those rail cards go up every year.

08:09Over to The Rock's bloodline buddy… or is he?

08:12Roman Reigns, it has been confirmed, thankfully, that his advertised return to SmackDown tonight

08:16isn't just a one-off.

08:18He will also be appearing on next Friday's August 16th show in Orlando, Florida.

08:23Wait a second, card subject to change?

08:26This means he will have been on three consecutive weeks of programming since returning at last

08:30week's SummerSlam, which was his first WWE appearance in four months since WrestleMania

08:3540.

08:36So, well yeah, duh, he's back now, Roman is on a limited dates contract.

08:40It remains to be seen if he's actually going to build a match at the next PLE Bash at Berlin.

08:45Subscribe to us here at WrestleTalk because I'm going to do a special bonus SmackDown

08:48review episode tomorrow to cover Roman's return.

08:51But as the wrestling god giveth, he also taketh awayeth.

08:55Because Wrestling Observer Radio is reporting the awesome Bronson Reed angle on Monday's

08:59Raw was actually a way to write Seth Rollins off TV, as he is legitimately injured and

09:04needs time off to heal up.

09:06After tearing his MCL in January and getting knee surgery in April, Rollins has only wrestled

09:11once in the last four months, which was challenging Priest for the World Heavyweight title at

09:15Money in the Bank.

09:16Dakota Kai is also said to be legitimately injured, which is why she was also kayfabe-tacked

09:21on Raw to write her off TV.

09:23It's Survival Series Day everyone, hooray!

09:26If you join Patreon.com forward slash WrestleTalk right now to support us to make all this content,

09:31you can get a whole bonus exclusive episode of it!

09:35Here's a clip of us trying to name every AEW pay-per-view main event… ever.

10:01There are only ever one main event on these shows, I don't care what WrestleMania tries

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