Armando Estrada
| Armando Estrada | |
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Estrada in 2007.
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| Birth name | Hazem Ali |
| Born |
December 20, 1978 Chicago, Illinois |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Armando Alejandro Estrada Armando Estrada Mr. AE Osama Osama Rodriguez Alejandro |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 230 lb (100 kg) |
| Billed from | Cuba |
| Trained by | Ohio Valley Wrestling |
| Debut | 2004 |
| Retired | 2012 |
Armando Estrada, born Hazem Ali (born December 20, 1978) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and manager of Palestinian descent best known by his ring name Armando Estrada.
Ali began his WWE career wrestling in their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling, making his OVW television debut as a bodyguard named "Osama" in Muhammad Hassan's entourage. When Hassan and Daivari were called up to the main roster, Ali remained in OVW wrestling with an Arab, anti-American character, similar to that of The Iron Sheik, and began wrestling in a tag team with Da Beast.
When Paul Heyman began booking OVW, he expanded Osama's name to "Osama Rodriguez Alejandro", revealing him to actually be half Cuban and half Palestinian. Along with being an active wrestler he became a backstage interviewer, conducting interviews with wrestler Robbie Dawber as a sidekick, for his own storyline Spanish language version of OVW's television show. At the same time, he began a storyline campaign to be elected "Dictator of Kentucky", which he intended to rename "Los Kentuckos", often coming to the ring with a placard reading "Bote for Lalo", purposely misspelling "Vote", based on his pronunciation and utilizing his nickname at the time: "Big Lalo".
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