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{{Infobox professional wrestler<br />
|name=Akram Pahalwan<br />
|names=Akram Pahalwan<br>Iki Pehlwan<br />
|height={{height|ft=5|in=10}}<br />
|weight={{convert|220|lb|kg st|abbr=on}}<br />
|birth_date=1930<ref>{{cite web|title=Bholu Brothers wrestling Information <!-- BOT GENERATED TITLE --> |url=http://geocities.com/worlddweb/bholu_brothers_information |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5kmEX477Q?url=http://geocities.com/worlddweb/bholu_brothers_information |archivedate=2009-10-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
|death_date=12 April 1987 (aged 57)<br />
[[Lahore]], [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]] <br />
|birth_place=[[Amritsar]], [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]], [[India]]<br />
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|billed=<br />
|trainer=[[The Great Gama]]<br />
|debut=1953<br />
|retired=12 December 1976<br />
|}}<br />
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'''Akram Pahalwan''' (1930–12 April 1987), also known as '''Iki Pehlwan''' was a [[Pakistan]]i [[wrestling|wrestler]] and a part of the Bholu Brothers Tag Team in professional wrestling during the late 1960s. Some of his opponents are Haji Afzal (1963), [[George Gordienko]] (1967), [[Anton Geesink]] (1968) and [[Antonio Inoki]] (1976).<br />
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==Professional wrestling career==<br />
Pahalwan was initially trained in Lahore as a student of [[The Great Gama]]. Akram started his professional wrestling career in 1953 wrestling Ugandan and Kenyan wrestlers in East Africa. He defeated [[Mahindar Singh]] in [[Nairobi]] with a submission hold in a match where Singh’s elder brother was the referee. The East African public named him "The Lion" when he defeated the Ugandan Champion [[Idi Amin]].<br />
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Pahalwan participated in around 280 major wrestling events during the 1950s. In 1958, Akram was proclaimed the Champion of Malaya in [[Singapore]] when he defeated the wrestler Hari Ram.<br />
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During the 1960s, Pahalwan also remained a part of the Bholu Brothers wrestling team. In 1965, Pahalwan defeated Indian wrestler [[Hardam Singh]] at the National Stadium, Karachi in the third round. In 1967 he toured UK. The Bholu Brothers were rated 10th in the 1968 Tag Team world ratings.<ref>[http://www.puroresu.com/wrestlers/gotch_karl/article.html ''Ring Wrestling Magazine'', "Official World Ratings for December 1968"]</ref> In 1968 Akram wrestled in [[Suriname]], [[South America]] where he was beaten unconscious by [[Anton Geesink]]. Later in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) he injured his left arm in a match against [[Bill Verna]] of Australia. <br />
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In 1976, the Bholu Brothers claimed to be the world champions and slated Pahalwan to fight [[Antonio Inoki]]. On the day of the match Inoki defeated Pahalwan with a [[Professional wrestling holds#Chickenwing arm lock|chicken wing armlock]]. Pahalwan did not submit, but the ring doctor stopped the match because his left arm broke under the submission hold. Pahalwan's wrestling career ended after his match with Inoki.<br />
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