8 Things You Didn't Know About Apollo Crews

7. He Was A Child Gymnast

Obviously, one of the most impressive things about Apollo Crews is his athleticism. He is a big, big man, but his move-set is at least 50% cruiserweight-influenced, with all manner of flips and flops and everything in between. His finishing move at the moment is a gorilla press into a standing moonsault, but before arriving in WWE this was accompanied further by a standing shooting star press. Not bad at all. The interesting thing is that Crews had all of this in his armour before he started training to be a professional wrestler, before he started working out even. When in fifth grade, little Apollo was a gymnast, something that would surely go on to influence his eventual offensive abilities in the ring. I can't say whether he was performing moonsaults and shooting star presses at the time, but who knows?
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