A Gentle Giant: Gholamreza Takhti

Takhti, the youngest child of an Iranian Azerbaijani family was born in Khaniabad neighborhood of south Tehran. on August 27, 1930. At the age of 15, he entered Poulad Club in Southern Tehran and was trained in wrestling. He soon left Tehran to become a manual laborer in the oil-rich city of Masjed Soleiman.