One way of answering is to say he was the greatest wrestler that has ever lived, maybe the most formidable unarmed combatant to ever live, but put it this way, an entire armed mob intent on mass murder once fled him in mortal terror. More on that in a bit.
Ok, since Google has done a doodle for his birthday today and some ppl are wondering who he is, gather around children, it is storytime. A story that starts with a secret. Superheroes do exist in real life. Well one did.
Meet Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt AKA The Great Gama.
One way of answering is to say he was the greatest wrestler that has ever lived, maybe the most formidable unarmed combatant to ever live, but put it this way, an entire armed mob intent on mass murder once fled him in mortal terror. More on that in a bit.
And Gama was extremely good.
In these 50 years of bouts, Gama lost 0 times.
What kind of behemoth of a man does this you ask?
A 5'7" behemoth, actually.
For instance, Gama got his start at age 10, when he entered a strongman tournament being held by a king. And placed in the top 15.
While still a teenager he faces the legendary giant Raheem Bakhsh Sultaniwala for the subcontinental crown. Gama has no chance.
And then Gama is crowned champ
Gama decides to start issuing challenges.
So Gama started issuing challenges to individual famous wrestlers saying he would beat them or "pay them the prize money and leave for home"
The bout lasted 1 minute 40 seconds before Gama pinned Doc.
Doc, shocked, demanded a rematch. In the rematch Doc went all out and lasted 9 whole minutes.
On 10 Sept 1910 Gama & Zybysko faced off in what became a 2 hr 36 min match.
At the 1 min mark Zybysko was taken down. He remained there for the next 2 hrs 35 min.
On the appointed day of the rematch, the legendary Stanislaus Zybysko, terror of the ring, feared by so many, no-showed rather than face Gama.
Now, for a wholly different reason, Gama was now starting to run into his old problem again. Nobody wanted to fight him. At one point he offered to fight 20 men in a row, nobody agreed.
Finally, nothing left to prove, Gama left the West to return home.
Well, for one, he was ridiculously strong. Superhero strong. On one ocassion he lifted a 1200 kg stone in a feat so famous the STONE is in a museum
https://t.co/mU2tRFWtsJ
And then there was his regimen
His daily diet? It included 10 liters of milk, six desi chickens, & a pound and a half of crushed almond paste made into a tonic drink.
Yes, Stanislaus is back.
It is also how many seconds Zybysko lasted. After this Gama found it increasingly hard to find opponents. So he turned his attention to one closer to home.
The British Empire
The govt refused.
Now, Gama was a muslim, living in Lahore, in what was now Pakistan. Seeing what was happening, he vowed to help the minority Hindus nearby
Gama placed himself before the mob.
This is where things went from scary to legendary
There is an impasse for a moment. And then it happened
