Murat Bosphorus

Özgür Bakar
Data
Ring name	Murat Bosphorus Imam Murat B Murat
Additions to names	Turkish Wrestling Machine
height	168 cm
Fighting weight	98 kg
birth	December 16, 1979 Wolfratshausen , Germany
Trained by	Christian Eckstein Tony St. Clair
debut	March 13, 2002

Özgür Bakar (born December 16, 1979 in Wolfratshausen ), better known by his ring name Murat Bosporus , is a German wrestler of Turkish descent .

Career

Sports background / beginnings

Bakar was an active wrestler before his wrestling career . He has appeared as a wrestler since March 2002 and was represented in the two largest German wrestling leagues, westside Xtreme wrestling (wXw) and German Stampede Wrestling , from 2004 onwards . His ring character is designed with overemphasis on his Turkish origins.

National and international appearances

In 2006 Bakar was the first German to be invited to the largest Japanese wrestling league, Pro Wrestling NOAH , where he subsequently played numerous matches. In the meantime, the wrestling market leader World Wrestling Entertainment had expressed interest in the Wolfratshausen; Before a show in Munich there was already a tryout (trial match). At the end of August 2007, Bakar was dismissed from his doctorate due to personal differences with the then wXw management. As part of the " TNA Maximum Impact" tour 2011, Bakar played a match against Jeff Jarrett on January 25, 2011 in Berlin , which he lost .

successes

• German Stampede Wrestling

• 1 × GSW Breakthrough Champion

• westside Xtreme wrestling

• 2 × wXw Tag Team Champion

• New Blood Wrestling

• 1 × winner of the NBW Dutch Masters Tournament (2005)

• Turkish Power Wrestling

• 1 × TPW Intercontinental Champion (current title holder)

Others

• Bakar was a guest with Stefan Raab in the television program TV total and in the NDR programs 3 nach 9 and Sportclub.
• His friend, the rapper Eko Fresh , wrote his entrance music for him and acts as his manager at wrestling events.
• In 2010, Bosporus took part in the reality show Solitary and left it in fifth place.
• On March 14, 2015 he took part in the 2015 WOK WM.

Web links

• official homepage
• Murat Bosporus in the Genickbruch.com database

• Profile on Cagematch.de
• Exclusive interview at worldwide-wrestling.de - Interview with Murat Bosporus

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dummy Turks , summer 2007; Issue 15, p. 36
2. ↑ Permit: Murat Bosporus, Fighter, Jetzt.de (Süddeutsche Zeitung), April 16, 2007
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Dummy Turks , summer 2007; Issue 15, p. 38