Nurullah Hasan

 ( 19th-century Births ) 

Ali Nurullah Hasan was a Turkish people wrestler. He was known with his nickname as Filiz Nurullah Pehlivan to the Turkish public whereas he used the alias Hassan Nurullah for his professional wrestling career in Western Europe. He stood 6'6" (200½ cm) tall and weighed .

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Early life Nurullah was born in 1867 or 1870 in Bıyıklı village near Shumen, Danube Vilayet in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. At eleven years of age, Nurullah was trained in oil wrestling by Yusuf İsmail. Yağlı Güreşin Ünlü Pehlivanları X - Filiz Nurullah, Erhan Hüseyin Ali, Öğretmenin Sesi

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Career In 1894, Yusuf İsmail accompanied him and Kara Osman of Plovdiv on their journey to Paris, organised by France former wrestler and promoter Joseph Doublier. Nurullah's impressive physique (standing tall and weighing 159 kg (350Atlanta Journal, 26 Feb 1901 lbs), Famous Wrestlers of Kırkpınar although exaggerated figures have also existed) was then noted as a tackle for finding eager opponents. Filiz Nurullah Nevertheless, Nurullah trained in Greco-Roman wrestling and started competing at Folies Bergère by 1895.

Nurullah is renowned for his long rivalries with two formidable exponents of French/Greco-Roman wrestling: Paul Pons and Kara Ahmet.

Nurullah quit wrestling in 1911 and died a year later in Istanbul.

Categories: 19th-century Births, 1912 Deaths, Year Of Birth Uncertain, People From Shumen Province, 19th-century Professional Wrestlers, 20th-century Male Professional Wrestlers, Sportspeople From The Ottoman Empire

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