CHARLES KONG SOO

charles.kong­soo@guardian.co.tt

There are many in­stances in pro­fes­sion­al wrestling when sons fol­low their fa­thers in­to the ring and some­times, it is a fam­i­ly af­fair that spans sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions. Some fa­mous fa­ther-son wrestlers are Cha­vo Guer­rero, Sr and Cha­vo Guer­rero, Jr, Dustin and Dusty Rhodes, Shane and Vince McMa­hon, and Bob and Randy Or­ton.

Even fa­mous wrestler's daugh­ters al­so get in­to the ring such as Si­mone John­son, the daugh­ter of Dwayne "The Rock" John­son, Char­lotte, the daugh­ter of Hall of Famer Ric Flair and Elek­tra Lopez, the daugh­ter of for­mer WWE (World Wrestling En­ter­tain­ment) Su­per­star Steve King.

Get ready to rum­ble, in­tro­duc­ing the lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al wrestler Gio­van­ni "Gio Mon­do" Sadd nag­im.

As part of his wrestling-themed birth­day cel­e­bra­tions and his love for sports en­ter­tain­ment, be­fore he turned 15 on Sep­tem­ber 9, his fa­ther Shawn "Tri­ni Chat­terz" Sadd nag­im erect­ed a small wrestling ring in the Aranguez Sa­van­nah, a wrestler's body throw from their home in San Juan, on In­de­pen­dence Day and they had a hi­lar­i­ous wrestling match which he then post­ed on Face­book.

Speak­ing to the Kids' Guardian Gio­van­ni said smil­ing, "We had a lit­tle brawl on In­de­pen­dence Day. I do pro­fes­sion­al wrestling along with box­ing and UFC (Ul­ti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship)-styled mixed mar­tial arts.

"I start­ed train­ing when I was around 11. I have a lot of role mod­els in­clud­ing John Ce­na, Jeff Hardy and Brock Lesnar in pro­fes­sion­al wrestling, and Nate Di­az, and Khabib Nur­magome­dov in MMA (Mixed Mar­tial Arts)."

He said his favourite wrestling move was the "frog splash" as it is one of his he­roes Ed­die Guer­rero's sig­na­ture fin­ish­ing moves.

One of the most trea­sured mem­o­ries of the wrestling-mad Gio­van­ni was when he at­tend­ed the WWE Sum­mer­slam Live Heat­wave Tour at Madi­son Square Gar­den, New York, USA, on Ju­ly 7, 2018, with his fam­i­ly.

He was scream­ing so loud that Amer­i­can pro­fes­sion­al wrestler Ro­man Reigns point­ed at him and gave him his sig­na­ture "hang loose" hand ges­ture dur­ing his ring en­trance.

Gio­van­ni al­so has a huge col­lec­tion of wrestling mem­o­ra­bil­ia such as ac­tion fig­ures, toys, posters, cards, T-shirts and oth­er items he has been col­lect­ing since he was three years old.

He shared that he spends some of his free time from train­ing watch­ing mul­ti­ple wrestling news chan­nels and broad­casts to learn more about the sport he loves.

Giovanni Sadd nagim with the wrestling -themed cake for his fifth birthday.

Be­sides com­bat sports, Gio­van­ni loves act­ing, bas­ket­ball, com­pos­ing songs and watch­ing hor­ror movies.

He as­pires to be a wrestler in the WWE while run­ning his own busi­ness­es/brand and he would al­so like to do some work in the law and re­al es­tate fields when he grows up.

The Form Four St George's Col­lege stu­dent's favourite sub­ject is His­to­ry, one of his favourite tele­vi­sion se­ries is The Haunt­ing of Hill House, his favourite movie is In­sid­i­ous, his favourite genre of mu­sic is rap, steak is his favourite food and one of his favourite desserts is cake.

Es­ha Sadd nag­im, Gio­van­ni's moth­er, said that since he was three years old, he al­ways loved wrestling, from watch­ing match­es on WWE, to hav­ing his theme par­ties based on wrestling, col­lect­ing ac­tion fig­ures and mem­o­ra­bil­ia.

She added that as par­ents, Shawn and her al­ways sup­port­ed Gio­van­ni in his choic­es be­cause he had al­ways been a de­ter­mined and in­tel­li­gent child and they knew some­day he will be­come a wrestler.

Sadd nag­im said his dad will wres­tle with him and will of­ten joke about how sore his body will be af­ter a match with Gio­van­ni.

She ex­plained that Gio­van­ni's dad is the kind of man who will of­ten go all out to see his chil­dren hap­py.

He re­cent­ly con­struct­ed a wrestling ring. They al­so took him to the Aranguez Sa­van­nah to make a spe­cial video for his 15th birth­day and it was awe­some.

Shawn said that they cher­ished every mo­ment as they watched Gio­van­ni fol­low his dreams and make them proud par­ents.

Bal­anc­ing their son's school­work and play was a bit chal­leng­ing, he dis­closed.

Shawn said, how­ev­er, they tried their best to make time for these hob­bies and sports he was in­to.

They en­cour­aged Gio­van­ni to stay fo­cused and let aca­d­e­mics be the top pri­or­i­ty right now if he had to meet his goals in the fu­ture.