‘I Can Be The African Arnold’ – ONE Heavyweight MMA World Champion Reug Reug Sees Future In Hollywood
The divisional king is obsessed with martial arts films and dreams of becoming an action movie star.
When “Reug Reug” Oumar Kane enters the arena, it already feels like a scene from a blockbuster movie. Standing 6 feet tall and carved from 265 pounds of muscle, the ONE Heavyweight MMA World Champion looks less like an athlete and more like a real-life special effect. He is a walking spectacle, a man whose sheer physical presence commands the kind of attention that usually costs millions of dollars in CGI to replicate.
View this post on Instagram And if the Senegalese superstar has his way, that presence might one day transition from the ring to the silver screen. His fists are currently occupied with defending his heavyweight MMA throne, but Kane’s eyes are open to a future in cinema — a world he has been obsessed with long before he became a global martial arts icon. The All-Action Hero View this post on Instagram Kane is an avid consumer of the very genre he dominates in reality: combat sports cinema.
His taste in movies is specific and adrenaline-fueled, favoring the high-octane choreography of martial arts films over slow-burn dramas. He points to the French action film K. O.
— which stars fellow heavyweight MMA fighter Ciryl Gane — as a personal favorite. In fact, Kane was nearly a part of that project himself. He said: “I love movies, martial arts movies in particular.