who is Şamil Sam?

Şamil was someone who people of my age, and those quite a bit older than me. He was a Turkish athletes at the Olympics to one of his masterpieces - 'Heroes'.
He was also a master of the boxing world, who kept getting it right,  people will still be remembering to in a 100 years time for his world heavyweight boxing championship. He was someone who truly deserves to be described as a patriotic.