Özgür Bakar (born 16 December 1979), better known by his ring name Murat Bosporus, is a German

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of Turkish descent. He is best known for his work on the German independent circuit.

Career

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

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, Switzerland,

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, among others. In 2006 he became the first German to work for the Japanese

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, where he made numerous acclaimed matches. Meanwhile, he also had a tryout match with

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and TNA while both promotions visited Germany for live events. In 2008 he was a regular in the major

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n promotion World Wrestling Professionals based in

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working alongside Joe E. Legend who later that year invited him to tour

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with

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. 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

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in Japanese promotion Smash pro wrestling. They had competed against Tajiri, Ohara and

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. Team Tajiri won the match by pinning Big Boy. In Turkish Power Wrestling he defended his title against Joe E. Legend,

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, Tom La Ruffa,

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and Doug Williams.

Championships and accomplishments

*Championship Of Wrestling **cOw Interstate Championship (1 time) *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 **Winner of the 2005 NBW Dutch Masters Tournament *Power of Wrestling **POW Intercontinental Championship (1 time, current) **POW Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Hakem Wakuur (1) and James Mason (1) *

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**PWI ranked him #180 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the

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in 2013 *Turkish Power Wrestling **TPW Intercontinental Championship (1 time, current) *

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(2 times) – with Wesley Croton *Wrestling School Austria **WSA European Championship (1 time)

References

External links

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