{"id":80683,"date":"2025-08-19T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:57:11","slug":"reug-reug-celebrates-inclusion-in-senegals-school-curriculum-what-an-honor-it-is-for-a-sportsman-to-achieve-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80683\/","title":{"rendered":"Reug Reug” celebrates inclusion in Senegal’s school curriculum: “What an honor it is for a sportsman to achieve in life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cReug Reug\u201d Oumar Kane reached heights few athletes ever achieve in their homeland. The ONE Heavyweight MMA World Champion discovered that Senegal\u2019s secondary schools now teach his story as part of their educational curriculum.<\/p>\n

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Kane defends his belt against Anatoly Malykhin<\/a> at ONE 173: Superbon vs. Noiri<\/a> on Sunday, November 16, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan. The 33-year-old Senegalese fighter enters the rematch as the first African-born champion in ONE Championship history.<\/p>\n

Kane grew up as one of six children in Thiaroye sur Mer, a small fishing town outside Dakar. His family struggled to make ends meet before his wrestling and MMA success changed everything for his loved ones.<\/p>\n

Students across Senegal now study his journey from poverty to championship gold. Kane recently joined the country\u2019s football heroes from the 2002 World Cup team that reached the quarterfinals with stars like Aliou Cisse and El Hadji Diouf.<\/p>\n

The heavyweight champion understands the honor of joining such legendary company. Senegal\u2019s wrestling culture shaped his early development before he transitioned to mixed martial arts and captured ONE Championship gold last November.<\/p>\n

That said, Kane takes pride in representing combat sports among his country\u2019s greatest achievers. He believes his wrestling background and championship success earned him a place alongside Senegal\u2019s most celebrated athletes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredible. What an honor it is for a sportsman to achieve in life. I strive to be the greatest sportsman I can be, but to be on school papers is something I could never dream of,\u201d Kane said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn combat sports, Senegalese wrestling is such a huge part of our culture, and this was my education. I ate, drank, and slept learning about these stars and dreaming of becoming one. Now I\u2019m not ashamed to say I\u2019m the greatest of them all.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cReug Reug\u201d Oumar Kane reached heights few athletes ever achieve in their homeland. The ONE Heavyweight MMA World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,33503,1865,33753,82],"class_list":["post-80683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-one-173","tag-one-championship","tag-reug-reug","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}