When Derrick Osaze’s manager first dubbed him ‘The Punching Preacher’, he was not a fan. “I hated that nickname at first if I’m being honest you know,” he says. “It was my manager, Jimmy Gill.
Even before I was ordained officially he was calling me the Punching Preacher and I remember every time I said it to me I just felt like a flame in my chest I was just angry. “It just made me sound like a WWE character.” But soon Osaze came to embrace his ring name after a realisation that he can take on a powerful role as a bridge between two worlds not often mixed.
He said: “After a while I started to warm to it because I understood the nickname. “First of all it wasn’t a lie because I do punch and sometimes I do preach.
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