Luke Littler is having a storming starting of the 12 months that may see him positioned entrance and centre throughout a WWE occasion.
The 16-year-old darts starlet has grow to be a family title in sports activities after his heroics within the Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship that noticed him go head-to-head with Luke Humphries within the closing, dropping 7-4 to the 28-year-old.
It was a outstanding run for {the teenager} who additionally banked £200,000 after ending because the runner-up within the match however the enjoyable for ‘The Nuke’ would not cease there.
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Littler’s walk-out tune of ‘Greenlight’ by Pitbull turned out to be extra fruitful than he ever imagined after he was invited to a WWE occasion within the O2 Arena later this 12 months after admitting the inspiration for the tune got here from when he attended Wrestlemania – WWE’s annual flagship occasion – in 2017.
“It was from WrestleMania 33, back in 2017,” Littler revealed to BBC Radio 1 Breakfast host Dean McCullough. “I went over [to Orlando, Florida] with my dad [Anthony Buckley]; it was unbelievable.” Luckily for Littler, he accepted the sort supply from the sports activities leisure behemoth and demonstrated simply how huge a fan of the WWE he was rising up.
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He took to X (previously often known as Twitter) to put in writing: “Throw back to #Wrestlemania33 @pitbull @JohnCena sounds good to me, see u April 19” with one video uploaded of his expertise on the flagship occasion and one other one the place a 10-year-old Littler impersonated WWE icon John Cena by sporting his United States Championship and recreating his iconic salute.
The Cheshire native will certainly be topic to a roaring response when he steps foot into the O2 Arena on April 19 he however he admitted that he thinks he is “grown out” of the wrestling facet of the reveals.
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“It’s fair to say I don’t like the wrestling anymore,” he added throughout his BBC Radio 1 interview. “I think I’ve grown out of it, but that’s just an experience to be at WrestleMania, and I just took the song off him [Pitbull].”