Murat Bosporus

German professional and amateur wrestler

Murat Bosporus

Bosporus in 2007

Birth name| Özgür Bakar
Born|  (1979-12-16) December 16, 1979 (age 45)
Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria, West Germany
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)| Murat Bosporus[1]
Murat
Billed height| 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Billed weight| 110 kg (240 lb)
Trained by| Christian Eckstein
Tony St. Clair
Debut| March 13, 2002
Retired| October 13, 2018

Özgür Bakar (born 16 December 1979), better known by his ring name Murat Bosporus, is a German-Turkish professional wrestler. He is best known for his work on the German independent circuit.

## Career

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Bakar was an amateur before he started a career as a professional wrestler. His debut match took place in March 2002 with the local European Wrestling Promotion. Since then he has become one of the top German wrestlers working for over 30 promotion worldwide in countries such as France, Italy, Spain, England, Switzerland, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, among others.[2]

In 2006 he became the first German to work for the Japanese Pro Wrestling NOAH, where he made numerous acclaimed matches. Meanwhile, he also had a tryout match with WWE and TNA while both promotions visited Germany for live events.

In 2008 he was a regular in the major African promotion World Wrestling Professionals based in South Africa working alongside Joe E. Legend who later that year invited him to tour Canada with BSE Pro.

As of 2011 he works regularly for German Stampede Wrestling and Turkish Power Wrestling.

In 2011 he teamed with his fellow TPW competitor Big Boy and Dave Finlay in Japanese promotion Smash pro wrestling. They had competed against Tajiri, Ohara and Fujiwara. Team Tajiri won the match by pinning Big Boy.

In Turkish Power Wrestling he defended his title against Joe E. Legend, Low Ki, Tom La Ruffa, Yoshihiro Tajiri and Doug Williams.

## Championships and accomplishments

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* Championship Of Wrestling
* cOw Interstate Championship (1 time)[3]
* German Hurricane Wrestling
* GHW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
* German Stampede Wrestling
* GSW Breakthrough Championship (1 time)
* German Wrestling Promotion
* Dragonhearts Championship (1 time)
* New Blood Wrestling
* NBW Dutch Masters Tournament (2005)
* Power of Wrestling
* POW Intercontinental Championship (1 time)[4]
* POW Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Hakem Wakuur (1) and James Mason (1)
* Pro Wrestling Illustrated
* PWI ranked him #180 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2013[5]
* Turkish Power Wrestling
* TPW Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
* Westside Xtreme Wrestling
* wXw Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Wesley Croton
* Wrestling School Austria
* WSA European Championship (1 time)

## References

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1. ^ Wrestlers Database » Brad Smith Cage Match
2. ^ Wrestlers Database » Brad Smith [failed verification]
3. ^ cOw Interstate Championship Cage Match
4. ^ "POW Intercontinental Championship « Titles Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
5. ^ "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2013". The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved 2013-08-22.

## External links

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* Official website
* Profile at German Stampede Wrestling
* Profile at Turkish Power Wrestling
* Murat Bosporus's profile at Cagematch.net , Wrestlingdata.com , Internet Wrestling Database
* Murat Bosporus at IMDb

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wXw World Tag Team Champions

2000s|

* $wiss Money Holding (Double C and Ares)
* Euro Threat (Thomas Blade and SigMasta Rappo)
* Long and Thick (Bas and Mot van Kunder)
* Euro Threat (Crazy Johnny Tiger and SigMasta Rappo)
* Thomas Blade and Scorpion
* Wrecking Crew (Thomas Blade and Chris Combat)
* The 69ers (Hate and Martin Nolte)
* The New 69ers (Hate and Tyrant)
* Next Generation Superstars (Steve Douglas and Alex Pain)
* Dark Dream (X-dream and Darksoul)
* High Class Catch Club (Baron von Hagen and Adam Polak)
* GTS and Iceman
* Murat Bosporus and Wesley Croton
* Absolute Andy and Josh Abercrombie
* AbLas (Absolute Andy and Steve Douglas)
* Chris Hero and Marc Roudin
* Doug Williams and Martin Stone
* The Kartel (Sha Samuels and Terry Frazier)
* The Switchblade Conspiracy (Jon Moxley and Sami Callihan)

2010s|

* Oberhausen Terror Corps (Bad Bones and Carnage)
* The Mind (Adam Polak and Karsten Beck)
* The Wanderers (Jason Hendrix and Jay Skillet)
* Sumerian Death Squad (Michael Dante and Tommy End)
* RockSkillet (Jay Skillet and Jonathan Gresham)
* The AUTsiders (Big van Walter and Robert Dreissker)
* Hot & Spicy (Axel Dieter Jr. and Da Mack)
* Matt Striker and Trent?
* French Flavour (Lucas Di Leo and Peter Fischer)
* Team Prost (Toby Blunt and Mike Schwarz)
* ZackDaddy (Big Daddy Walter and Zack Sabre Jr.)
* Cerberus (Ilja Dragunov and Robert Dreissker)
* Cerberus (Dirty Dragan, Ilja Dragunov and Julian Nero)
* JML (David Starr and Shane Strickland)
* A4 (Absolute Andy and Marius Al-Ani)
* The Young Lions (Lucky Kid and Tarkan Aslan)
* Ringkampf (Timothy Thatcher and Walter)
* Rise (John Klinger and Da Mack)
* Monster Consulting (Avalanche and Julian Nero)
* Jay FK (Jay Skillet and Francis Kaspin)
* Rise (Da Mack and Tarkan Aslan)
* Rise (Ivan Kiev and Pete Bouncer)
* Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis)
* Ilja Dragunov and Walter
* Pretty Bastards (Maggot and Prince Ahura)

2020s|

* Jay-AA (Jay Skillet and Absolute Andy)
* Fast Time Moodo and Stephanie Maze
* Die Wrestling Academy (Anil Marik and Robert Dreissker)
* Arrows Of Hungary (Dover and Icarus)
* Rott Und Flott (Michael Schenkenberg and Nikita Charisma)
* Frenchadors (Aigle Blanc and Senza Volto)
* Only Friends (Bobby Gunns and Michael Knight)
* Amboss (Laurance Roman and Robert Dreissker)
* Dennis Dullnig and Hektor Invictus
* Amboss (Icarus and Laurance Roman)
* KxS (Axel Tischer and Fast Time Moodo)
* Young Blood (Oskar Leube and Yuto Nakashima)
* Big Bucks (Alex Duke, Norman Harras and Anil Marik)
* Planet Gojirah (Marc Empire and Robert Dreissker) (current)

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