Simo Rantalainen (born August 6, 1961) is a
Finnish former journalist and television presenter. He is best known for presenting the popular 1990s talkshow ''
Hyvät, pahat ja rumat'' on
MTV3
MTV3 (, ) is a Finnish commercial television channel owned and operated by the media company MTV Oy, originally launched on 13 August 1957 as a programming block, becoming its own channel on 1 January 1993. It had the biggest audience share ...
.
In the early 1990s, Rantalainen became a boxing promoter for
Tarmo Uusivirta, Rantalainen wrote a memoir about his experience in February 2017. He lost his television hosting job after assaulting a female journalist in a nightclub
Since leaving showbusiness Simo Rantalainen converted to Islam and adopted the name Mujahed Bin Risto Faisal.
Further reading
*Rantalainen, Simo (2017). ''Tare: mestarinyrkkeilijän muotokuva'' (in Finnish). Johnny Kniga. .
References
External links
1961 births
Living people
Finnish journalists
Finnish television presenters
People from Lahti
Finnish Muslims
Converts to Islam from Christianity
Boxing promoters
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