Also known as The Great Accra, Ackra
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Fans of 1960s wrestling will most likely remember a popular wrestler called Majid Ackra. Unknown to most of us at the time was that Majid Ackra was the son of a very well respected wrestler. The wrestler known as Accra, sometimes Great Accra, in the 1930’s, 1940s and 1950s.
Karam Rasul Kashmiri, that was Accra’s birth name, was born in India on 17th May, 1911. He was an Olympic competitor representing India in the middleweight freestyle wrestling event at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, though not a champion as claimed by some. Accra wrestled professionally in Britain during 1938 and 1939. Billy Joyce, Bengal Engblom and Jack Pye were amongst top class opponents. Following the Second World War he moved to Manchester where he combined ownership of a drapery store in Moss Side with wrestling commitments throughout the north and midlands.
He formed a friendship, both professionally and personally, with wrestler Jack Atherton, and the two formed a wrestling rivalry. Accra naturally trained his son to wrestle before passing young Majid Ackra on to his friend Jack Atherton for final preparation as a professional wrestler.
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