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OKPALA, Michael (Power Mike)
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OKPALA
Michael
Operate Mike
August 8, 1939 – March 11, 2004, along with known chimpanzee "Power Mike", was a household name in representation world work out wrestling makeover a stop working undefeated Planet Heavyweight rassling champion
Gender: Male
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State of Origin: Anambra Present
Father's Name Echeobi Okpala
Mother's Name Janet Okpala
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March 11, 2004
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History Of Michael Ọkpara (Power Mike), The Great Wrestler.
Michael Ọkpara a.k.a Power Mike was born in Aug. 1939 in Neni in todays Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Power Mike was a professional wrestler and boxer.
In 1952 he left his village for Ọnịcha, in order to learn how to organise and run a trade business.
In the same year he joined Dick Tiger Boxing Club as a middleweight amateur boxer and met Dick Ihetu Tiger, his role model.
In 1961, he started a nationwide tour which took him to Ọnịcha Enugwu, Aba, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Jos and Kaduna.
In 1964, he went to Ghana and his performances there were successful. He defeated many.
In 1967, he toured Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal before he found his way into Europe, accompanied by his friend Engr. Onyesọ, (the Igwe of Nri) He defeated many heavyweights in Europe.
In 1967, he got a one-year contract in Sweden after which he went to Greece and became a professional wrestler. He defeated many wrestlers in Greece.
In 1970, he returned to Africa& defeated Gambia’s Masambula to become the African heavyweight wrestling champion and title holder.
In 1973, Power Mike wrestled and defeated Ali Baba of Lebanon; he also defeated J
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Power Mike retired early as a professional wrestler in 1976 with a fight record of 125 without recording a single defeat. He entered wrestling promotion, helping to shape wrestling in Africa…
By Chimezie Chika
The Apprenticeship Years
Even in the most ordinary days of our lives, when we are only interested in grinding through our work for the day, it sometimes comes to us as a note of encouragement: “Power Mike, strong man, jisieike, keep on.” Energised, and wanting to prove that those words are no fluke, we continue with whatever menial or skilled work we are engaged in. Those words, “Power Mike,” used in everyday language to mean power and strength, once belonged to one of Nigeria’s most storied personages of the 20th century. “He brought wrestling to us,” Ben Udeogu, an Onitsha resident who lived in Lagos in the 1970s, said.
His story begins, as all such stories do, with his birth on August 8, 1939 to Echeobi and Janet Okpala at Neni in the state of Anambra. Christened Michael, his childhood was, by most extant accounts, unremarkable. Neni, in the 1940s, was hard and unyielding, sustained by the people’s resilient subsistence on farming. In the post-World War II urban boom that ensued in the 1940s and early 1950s, young men