retired birth_place weight trainer height debut billed birth_date article_title name resides
1994 kazakhstan 264 lb kg on antonio inoki njpw dojo 5 10 1989 tbilisi , u.s.s.r. 4 may 1953 salman hashimikov
 salman hashimikov moscow , russia
salman hashimikov

salman alkhazurovich hashimikov , also spelled hasimikov -lrb- -rrb- , is a prominent soviet heavyweight wrestler .
a chechen from russia , he won two european and four world championship gold medals in freestyle wrestling -lrb- 1979 , 1981 , 1982 , 1983 -rrb- .
he had also won european and world gold as a junior in 1970-71 .
after an unsuccessful business career , salman spent five years as a professional wrestler in japan .
there he won the iwgp heavyweight championship from big van vader in may 1989 .
