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Abdesslam El Alami

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Abdesslam El Alami was a Moroccan wrestler. He was champion of North Africa cup of wrestlers mania. He was migrated in United States in New York City.

Biography

He grew up in the medina of Fez where he developed a passion especially for the Greco-Roman at the age of 15 years. This passion comes from other movies he particularly like Spartacus, The Gladiators. He likes the street fight and takes great pleasure to participate. This passion for the fight led very quickly to become a great wrestling champion in Morocco and soon he invested in a gym where he trained many young people to the sport. Back then, wrestling was at its peak in Europe and is quickly spotted in 1967 at a tournament between France and Morocco in Fez by French managers who see him as a great potential to become a wrestler of international scope.

So he decides, his contract in hand, to leave Morocco to start an international career of professional wrestler. Things will go very fast, he goes on fighting, then turned in a few months and becomes the darling of the crowds because of its air chisels that will become his specialty.

Contracts rain in Europe where he was asked to become a masked avenger known as "suicide bomber" in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands. In France it is the star of a TV show [Which?] Busy at the time by Roger Couderc. Originally from Morocco, it is often dressed in his traditional dress and the public likes it to organize Morocco / Italy. He made representations to the Moulin Rouge, the Olympia, the renowned Parisian theaters, and also on all the posters of the time, sometimes in a game four times solo.

Comes the turn of the United States where he represented Morocco in the 1970s at a gala held in New York exceptional. He married his childhood sweetheart who joined him in Paris where he took up residence very quickly. After two years of traveling his wife gave birth to her first child, a boy. It accompanies him throughout his career that stopped in the 1990s, wrestling becoming progressively abandoned in favor of other shows. It is now grandfather and has four grandchildren.

References

Abdesslam El Alami Wikipedia