Birth name | Özgür Bakar |
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Born |
Wolfratshausen, Germany |
December 16, 1979
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Murat Bosporus 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 |
Özgür Bakar (born 16 December 1979 in Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria) is a Turkish German professional wrestler mostly known as his ringname Murat Bosporus in independent circuit.
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.
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.