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  • The new generation of wrestlers train on the beach of Ngor in Dakar on April 9, 2015. The wrestlers of Ngor are a team, they train together but never compete against each other in an official tournament. Like Kherou Ngor, tens of thousands of young men in Senegal want to make a career as a wrestler, hoping to one day become rich and famous.
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  • Young wrestlers practice traditional wrestling during the evening hours at the wrestling school of ex-wrestler Boy Kaire on the beach of Dakar's Corniche on March 31, 2015. On most of Dakar's many beaches, young men are seen training as wrestlers before and during the wrestling season from December to August,
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  • Wrestlers compete in the wrestling school of Ex-Wrestler Balla Gaye on August 10, 2015. The Star-Wrestler Balla Gaye 2 and many other successful  wrestlers have arisen from this famous school, which was the first official  wrestling school in Senegal.
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  • April 11, 2015. Young men prepare themselves for a wrestling fight in Bambilor, a small village close to Dakar. The wrestlers wrap a cloth around their abdomens at which the wrestlers hold each other during the fight.
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  • April 9 2015. The photographer Freekis Ndoye from Dakar shows historical pictures of wrestlers from the 50’s on a table of the Black and White bar, where Kherou Ngor’s has a room. Wrestling matches have a long tradition in Senegal. Almost every village in the countryside organizes regular tournaments. The first wrestler in Senegambia was called Boukar Djilak Faye, he lived in the 14th century in the kingdom Sine.
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  • April 1, 2015. A wrestler inhals holy smoke in Djilass, a small village in the ditrict of Thiès. He uses a cloth which he also carries on the abdomen during the fight. The inhalation of holy smoke is a part of the mystic rituals, which the wrestlers celebrate before a fight.
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  • Friends try to comfort a wrestler who does not want to get up after loosing a fight at a tournament in Djilass, on April 1, 2015. Many Wrestlers are devastated after a defeat. Some may have invested a small fortune in the magic powers of the Marabouts, in hope to win the high prize money, confident that the investment will pay off.
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  • Young wrestlers train at the Corniche in Dakar on April 3, 2015. Many young men dream of a career as a wrestler, as Kherou Ngor has already done. Because they don't have much money, they usually train with the simplest of means. Here, the wrestling trainees have to run through the sand and carry each other.
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  • April 8, 2015. Young wrestlers prepare themselves with Gris-gris rituals for a competition in the Ngor district in Dakar, which was organised by the Wrestler Kherou Ngor.
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  • A wrestler performs a washing ritual before a regional fight in the river of the Djilass village on April 1, 2015. Wrestlers who are successfull in fights on the countryside might participate in tournbaments in the bigger cities, where one can win higher prize money.
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  • Low angle perspective on two wrestlers who compete in at training at the the wrestling school of Ex-Wrestler Balla Gaye on August 10, 2015.
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  • October 10, 2017. Renuse Kalela shows a statue of the Senegaese wrestling Legend Yekini who was the unbeaten Champion of the arena during one decade. The sculptue is made of old cars and would be 7 meters high when assembled. The unfinished statue has been disposed in Kalela´s garden in Bambilor after Yekini lost the comback fight against Lac de Guers 2 on July 24, 2016.
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  • April 20, 2012. Two wrestlers in an occasional fight at a village party in the small place Soune on April 20, 2012. Wrestling is a traditional sport in Senegal, wrestling tournaments take place even in the smallest villages on the countryside.
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  • Dakar, April 9, 2015. Aissa (23), a waitress at the „Black and White” bar on the beach of Ngor, poses for a portrait with the newspaper „Sunu Lamb“, which daily publishes exclusively Senegalese wrestling matches. Many girls are and women in Senegal are watching wrestling matches on TV, especially those who are big fans of certain wrestlers.
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  • On April 21, 2015, a tournament in the Adrien Senghor Arena is coming to an end. Because it is too hot during the day, the competitions always take place in the evening and often last until midnight. The Adrien Senghor stadium was built for wrestling matches and attracts wrestlers from all over Senegal who come to Dakar to compete and win prize money.
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  • Dakar, July 22, 2016. Kherou Ngor stares at his opponent, the wrestler Gori, before they start their fight at the Iba Mar Diop stadium. Around his neck he wears several wooden gris-gris amulets, which are said to have supernatural powers. Senegalese wrestlers believe that physical and spiritual powers are equally important in every fight.
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  • In the stadium "Olympique de Ngor" in Dakar a small local wrestling tournament takes place on 04 November 2017. Kherou Ngor is also taking part to support the wrestlers in his neighborhood. Kherou, who has won major matches in Dakar's largest stadium in front of tens of thousands of spectators, has many loyal fans and thus guarantees wrestling match organizers a good crowd. At this point, Kherou does not yet know that this relatively small fight would be his very last as a Senegalese wrestler.
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  • Dakar, November 04, 2017. Shortly before leaving his uncles house to go to a tournament, Kherou Ngor puts on his Gris-gris amulets, that will protect him from evil spirits and the voodoo-magic of his opponent at the upcoming fight at the stadium. All wrestlers in Senegal wear this kind of magical amulets. They usually have to pay a lot of money to the witchdoctors who produce those Gris-gris amulets for them. Kherou is lucky, because his uncle crafts his Gris-gris amulets for him.
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  • Two wrestlers at a small tournament on the countryside in Djilass, Senegal, on April 1, 2015.
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  • Kherou Ngor's cousin performs a ritual for the wrestler at the Cham - a place of worship for the ancestors of the wrestler's family - on April 5, 2015. Clay pots filled with roots and water are said to contain the spirits of the ancestors. The ritual, which must be performed regularly, is intended to provide the wrestler with the support and strength of the ancestors during his matches.
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  • Over 20000 fans gather to watch the fight between wrestling champions Balla Gaye 2 and Emeu Sene at the sold out Demba Diop soccer stadium in Dakar on April 5, 2015. Each wrestler has his own fans who support him and follow him to his matches. Many of the fans hold up posters and banners with pictures of their favorite wrestler.
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  • BB Bismi Ndoye defeats wrestler Maraka Dji at Demba Diop stadium, in a match on April 5, 2015. Every young wrestler in Senegal dreams of winning a match in the big Senegalese soccer stadiums like Demba Diop.
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  • Ex-wrestler Lac de Guiers poses in front of the Mar Diop stadium on March 29, 2015. Here his fight against the wrestler Commando wrote wrestling history in Senegal. With his targeted, hard punches Lac de Guiers sent the much taller  favourite by knock out to ground. Today he’s the owner of a Wrestling school.
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  • March 30, 2015. Lac de Guiers 2 has to run and pull his eponym, the Ex-Wrestler Lac de Guiers 1, through the sand.  The hardworkout was worth it, Lac De Guiers 2 sensationally defeated the favoured Wrestler Papa Sow at a fight in the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar on April 12,  2015.
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  • The wrestler Kherou Ngor trains with his boxing coach on the beach of Ngor in Dakar on August 8, 2015, "La lutte avec frappe", wrestling with boxing is the supreme discipline of Senegalese wrestling. Even some of the biggest stars of the Senegalese national sport also train on the beaches of Dakar. For the locals, those trainings are  always welcome entertainment.
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  • On April 4. 2015, Kherou Ngor prays at the grave of his grandfather - who was also a famous Senegalese wrestler - and offers cow's milk on his tombstone. He performs this ritual regularly, both to pay respect to his grandfather and to receive his blessings and strength for upcoming competitions. Mystical rituals and shamanism play a very important role in Senegalese wrestling.
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  • The Wrestler Forza trains with his colleague Diene Kaire Kaire with a truck tyre, in the Olympique club on April 3, 2015. Only the stars of the Senegalese wrestling scene can afford to train at this posh club in the district of Mermez in Dakar.
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  • August 12, 2015. Wrestler Kherou Ngor (middle, playing with child) eats lunch with his uncle’s big family, who is a very respected Marabout, as shamans, wizards and clergymen are called in Senegal. Witchcraft plays a big part in the Senegalese wrestling.
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  • April 1, 2016. In Djilass, a small village in the district of Thiès, a Marabout performs a Gris-gris ritual by washing a chicken in the water in order to produce a magic potion.  All the wrestler use several magic potions which they poor over their bodies before the fights. The ones who win every fight are actually the Marabouts, which are always well paid for the talismans and magic potions by the fighters.
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  • A wrestler puts numerous Gris-gris amulets onto himself before a fight in the small village Djilass on April 1, 2015.  In the foreground, one can see magic potions filled up in various bottles.
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  • Dakar, July 24 2016. The wrestler Lac de Guiers 2 performs a wrestler´s dance at the stadium of Demba Diop before fighting against the wrestler Yekini.
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  • Dakar, July 22, 2016. A member of Kherou Ngor's Security Equippe cheers at the Iba Mar Diop stadium, where Kherou previously knocked out wrestler Gori. Each wrestler has his own fans cheering him on. The atmosphere in the stadium is highly charged during the wrestling matches. There are often tumultuous scenes among the fans after the matches, so each wrestler has his own team of securities.
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  • Dakar, July 22, 2016. Kherou Ngor beats the wrestler Gori with a hard punch at the Iba mar Diop stadium. A few seconds later Gori goes down on his knees and Kherou wins the fight. Kherou Ngo's sigantur is his hard, fast punches. He is actually too lean and light in body weight for a Senegalese wrestler, so he tries to take his opponent down before being involved in traditional wrestling action.
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  • Februar 25 2018 – The wrestler Cheikhou Diouf wraps a Gris-gris amulet around his forehead when entering the arena during a small tournament on the countryside in the Region of Sine Saloum.
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  • Wrestlig legend Yekini enters the arena on July 24, 2016 to try his comeback against Lac de Guiers 2. He was the unbeaten king of the arenas for 16 years until he was convicted in 2012 by the younger wrestler Ballay Gaye 2.
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  • November 4, 2017. Before a tournamant Kherou Ngor’s cousin blows water over the wrestler´s head at the Cham, the shrine of the ancestors of Kherou Ngor’s family. They perform this ceremony in order to give Kherou Ngor the strenght and support of their anchestors for a fight
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  • People of the village of Ngor in Dakar gather in front of the house of the family of Kherou Ngor, to see the young wrestler performing a traditional wrestling dance to the sound of drums before he goes to a fight at the Iba Mar Diop stadiumin Dakar on July 22, 2016. Dancing and drumming performances take place before every Senegalese wrestling fight and tournament.
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  • Wrestling fans and street vendors gather at the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar for the fight between the wrestling stars Balla Gaye 2 and Emeu Sene on April 5, 2015
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  • Emeu Sene (on the left) hits Balla Gaye 2 (on the right) during a fight in the stadium of Demba Diop on April 5, 2015.
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  • On  August 11, 2015, Kherou Ngor pours cow milk over his head and body. He performs this ritual in the water at the shore of Ngor, Dakar, in order to obtain the spiritual support of a ghost who lives in the stones at the shore. Cow milk and magic potions are omnipresent in the wrestling arenas of Senegal, where vodoo and gris-gris rituals are a undisposable part of the show for the audience.
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  • The audience and press storm the arena after the final fight to celebrate the winner, as here in the Iba Mar Diop stadium in Dakar, March 29, 2015. The winner can count himself happy; nevertheless, he has just won prize money worth 7000 dollars - in Senegal a lot of money.
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  • On two sides of a street in Dakar, groups are watching the wrestling match on television at the Senegalese Independence Day on April 4, 2015. The Senegalese people celebrate Independence Day traditionally with some major wrestling fights. Almost the entire population in Senegal, from small children to old women, follow the wrestling matches on TV or, if possible, at the stadium.
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  • The women and children from the Senegalese village Soune have assembled to watch the men fighting in a wrestling match on April 20, 2012. The wrestling matches in the country are delivered occasionally at village celebrations to entertain the audience.
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  • On August 11. 2015, Kherou Ngor sacrifices cow's milk on the rocks of gor beach, after which he chose his wrestling name. Kherou Ngor means „Rock of Ngor“. He says that a powerful spirit lives in the water and in the rocks at this  beach, By pouring milk on the rocks and praying.Kherou asks for the ghost’s favour and support his next fight.
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  • Dakar, November 4, 2017. Kherou Ngor marches to the stadium in Ngor for a local fight, accompanied by some children of the village.
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  • Before a fight on November 4, 2017. Kehrou Ngor looks down on the streets of the village of Ngor in Dakar, standing on the terrace of his family's house.  After winning fights in the biggest stadiums in Dakar, he has become a star in the neighborhood. He looks back on a career with many victories and hardly any lost matches.
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  • Dakar, July 24, 2016. One day after a successful fight, Kherou Ngor is resting in his room. Later that evening, his friends and family will celebrate him with a big party. After another victory, he is optimistic that one day he will become the "King of the Arena" in Senegalese wrestling. He has no idea that this should have been the last big victory in his wrestling career.
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  • November 4, 2017. After performing a washing ritual with magic water, which contains torn pieces of paper with secret ciphers, Kherou Ngor spends a few hours on the roof of the house of his uncle before he goes to the tournament. There he waits and meditates while the laundry next to him dries in the wind. His uncle is a highly respected Marabout who claims that he can alter destiny by the using magic ciphers.  He writes down the ciphers on paper. The paper with the ciphers is then torn and added to the water fort he washing ritual. Marabout is the word for a shaman, a witch doctor or a cleric in Senegal.
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  • Dakar, July 22, 2016. After his victory at the stadium Iba Mar Diop Kherou Ngor returns to his neigbourhood on the roof of a car, while his fans celebrate him frenetically.
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  • April 1, 2015. Two assistants prepare a wrestler for a tournament In the small village of Djilass. They  help the  wrestler to wrap a cloth around his abdomen, at which the wrestlers hold each other during the fight.
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  • Wrestlers dance to the sound of drums at the Demba Diop stadium in  Dakar, April 5, 2015. The Wrestlers entertain the audience with traditional dances and Gris-gris  ceremonies before their fights. However, the traditional costumes were substituted with high-tech fibre sports clothing and with the logos of modern telecommunication brands.
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  • On Lac de Gueir´s TV  a wrestler dances the wrestlers dance to entertain the audience at the stadium of Dema Diop in Dakar on April 4, 2015.
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  • April 1 2016. A shaman in prepares a wrestler for a fight in Djilass, a small village on the countryside in the district of Thiès. Even well reknown wrestlers from Dakar somtimes visit the marabouts in the small villages on the countryside, because they believe that every Marabout has his own supernatural skills and magic powers.
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  • Young wrestlers relax after the hard training at the school of ex-Wrestler Boy Kaire at the Corniche in Dakar on April 3, 2015.
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  • Two wrestlers train at a wrestling school on April 7, 2015. The Senegalese wrestling match always takes place in the sand. The fighters try to pack each other on the legs, to unbalance the opponent, what leads to similar positions and movement patterns like wrestling matches in other countries.
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  • Two assistants help to attach several Gris-gris amulets to the wrestlers body before the fight in the small village of in the small village Djilass on April 1, 2015.
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  • Two wrestlers line up in the small Adrien Senghor arena in the Yoff district. The prize money for the winner in this tournament, which was organised by the Wrestling newspaper "Sunu Lamb", is about 6000 Euros.
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  • Demba Diop stadium, Dakar, April 5, 2015. Police forces are always present to prevent  clashed between the fans of opposed wrestlers at the end of a fight.
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  • April 1, 2015. During a tornament in Djilass, a small village in the disrict of Thiès, many women found in the audience keep their thumbs pressed to give their favourite wrestlers luck.
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  • While some wrestlers warm up for their fights at the sidelines of the Iba Mar Diop stadium in Dakar, several duels take place in the center of the arena on March 29, 2015.
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  • Two wrestlers line up in the small Adrien Senghor arena in the Yoff district on March 28, 2015. The prize money for the winner in this tournament, which was organised by the Wrestling newspaper "Sunu Lamb", is about 6000 Euros.
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  • In the stadium "Olympique de Ngor" in Dakar a small local wrestling tournament takes place on 04 November 2017. Kherou Ngor is also taking part to support the wrestlers in his neighborhood. Kherou, who has won major matches in Dakar's largest stadium in front of tens of thousands of spectators, has many loyal fans and thus guarantees wrestling match organizers a good crowd. At this point, Kherou does not yet know that this relatively small fight would be his very last as a Senegalese wrestler.
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  • Ex Wrestler Lac de Guiers instructs you wrestlers at his wrestling school in Dakar, Senegal.
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  • April 8, 2015. Young wrestlers at a competition in the Ngor district in Dakar, which was organised by the Wrestler Kherou Ngor.
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  • April 1, 2015. A wrestler inhals holy smoke in Djilass, a small village in the ditrict of Thiès. He uses a cloth which he also carries on the abdomen during the fight. The inhalation of holy smoke is a part of the mystic rituals, which the wrestlers celebrate before a fight.
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  • A wrestler performs a washing ritual before a regional fight in the river of the Djilass village on April 1, 2015. Wrestlers who are successfull in fights on the countryside might participate in tournbaments in the bigger cities, where one can win higher prize money.
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  • Wrestlers practice "la lutte avec frappe" (a form of Senegalese wrestling which allows boxing) during the evening hours at the wrestling school of ex-wrestler Boy Kaire on the beach of Dakar's Corniche on March 31, 2015.
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  • The wrestlers carry dozens of bottles containing magic potions with them.
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  • Sports photographers pursue the fight of two Wrestlers in the Demba Diop stadium with her cameras.
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  • After the training on March 30, 2015, Lac de Guiers 2 poses on his car, which he could buy thanks to the prize money he won. The young Wrestler honours his name giver and trainer Lac de Guiers 1 – on April 12th 2015 he defeated   the favoured Wrestler Papa Sow and in 2016 the Senegalese wrestling legend Yekini in the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar, which catapulted   him into the circle of star wresters in Senegal.
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  • Aoril 3, 2015. Diene Kaire trains regularly in the Olympique club, but he would prefer to train himself in the USA. His father Boy Kaire was already a sucessfull wrestler. He finished his career as a wrestler in favour of his son. Diene is know just as well known as his father.
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  • Young Wrestler prepare for a forthcoming competition, they wrap cloths around their abdomen on which the Wrestler can hold each other during the fight.
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  • Adam Ngom, a well-known drummer, cheers the audience on for the Wrestler Balla Gaye 2 In the stadium of Demba Diop, April 5, 2015. Every fight is accompanied by drum sounds – an important mystic element which is never absent, not even at small wrestling matches in the village.
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  • The spectators  go wild as a young wrestler defeats his opponent in a nightly competition on April 8, 2015 in the Ngor district in Dakar, Even small children attend the fights that often kick off until after midnight.
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  • March 29 2015 – A wrestler warms up before a final fight in the Iba Mar Diop stadium, located in the Medina district in Dakar. To prepare, he dances alone in a trance-like state to ear-deafening hypnotic drums and repetitive beats. The final fight is endowed with 700000 CFA (approx. 1200 US dollar).
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  • Der Ex-Wrestler Lac de Guiers 1 posiert vor dem Stadion Iba Mar Diop, in welchem er am 6. Januar 2003 seinen grössten Sieg errungen hat. Mit seinen gezielten, harten Faustschlägen schickte er in einem David- gegen-Goliath-Kampf den massiv grösseren  Wrestler Coimmando per K.O. zu Boden. Heute betreibt Lac de Guiers eine Wrestling Schule in Guédiawaye.
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  • A Wrestler presents his Gris-gris amulets to the audience  before the fight in the Adrien Senghor arena begins, March 28, 2015;  To drumbeats and repetitive songs he dances himself into trance.
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  • The Wrestler Ndiguel finished box training at Balla Gaye’s school on April 10, 2015. The wrestling match with boxing is the king's discipline of the Senegalese wrestling match, which is delivered traditional-wise without boxing. The French colonial rulers where the ones who had the idea to introduce boxing with bare fists to the Senegalese wrestling match.
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  • April 1, 2015. At tornament on in Djilass, a small village in the disrict of Thiès, a wrestler gets ready for his fight after dancing himself into trance.
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  • A wrestler warms up before the final fight at the Iba Mar Diop stadium in Dakar on March 29, 2015. So-called Gris-gris are magic amulets which the fighters carry on their bodies or often in their mouths.
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  • March 29, 2015 - Enthusiasm versus frustration in the audience of the Iba Mar Diop stadium  – every wrestler has his own supporters who support him and cheer for him during the fight.
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  • April 20, 2012. A young wrestler pours a magic potion over him at a small competition in the Soune, a small village near Thiès. In almost every village in Senegal there are occasional organised wrestling matches.
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  • Djibril Ndiaye performs a ritual with members of his familiy. He is a very respected marabout and scribe of the Brotherhood of the Layene, poses for a portrait. He claims that he can alter destiny by the using magic ciphers. He is the uncle of the wrestler Kherou Ngor, who is a follwer of the Layene brotherhood like his uncle.  The Layene brotherhood is the third largest of the Sufi brotherhoods of Senegal and is open to all Muslims, but it consists mostly of the Lebou ethnicity who live in fishing communities like Ngor, a quarter of Dakar. Marabout is a title that in Senegal includes clergymen and healers of all kinds, from Islamic scribes and imams to shamans or voodoo wizards.
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  • November 4, 2017. Kehrou Ngor looks down at the streets of the village of Ngor in Dakar, standing on the terasse of the house od his family. He is not only a well repsected wrestler, he sometimes also plays the role of a watchman in his village. "There are no thieves in this neighborhood." he says. "Everybody knows the consequences of stealing around here." he ads with a grim smile.
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  • Der Wrestler Forza (Bild links) macht während des Trainings im Fitnessclub Olympique eine Verschnaufpause. Wer es sich leisten kann trainiert seine Muskeln in diesem angesagten Club im Stadtteil Mermez in Dakar, in dem manchmal auch Stars wie Balla Gaye 2 anzutreffen sind.
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  • A wrestler pours a magic potion over himself before the fight.
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  • November 4, 2017. Before a fight Kherou Ngor vists the Cham - a place of worship for the ancestors of the family of the wrestler. There he performs different rituals before each fight.
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  • BB Bismi Ndoye defeats the wrestler Maraka Dji in the Demba Diop stadium, in a fight on April the 5, 2015. Some fights last no longer as 90 seconds, only a few more than 15 minutes or more.
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  • Kherou Ngor trains on the stair of the "monument of the African Renaissance”, with a chummy Wrestler
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  • April 20, 20212 – During a wrestling match in the village of Soune near Thies, a wrestler smiles at a girl in the audience. Senegalese wrestling is a popular sport that is played even in the smallest villages.
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  • April 20, 2012. Two Wrestler match grab each other during a local competition  in a small village called Soune in the region of Thiès.
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  • After the fight, Journalists crowd around the triumphing Wrestler Emeu Sene in the Demba Diop stadium.
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  • The Wrestler Emeu Sene curses his challenger Balla Gaye, before the fight, with his magic horn, one of the most important amulets.
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  • April 1, 2016. In Djilass, a small village in the district of Thiès, a wrestler is washed with a magic potion which a Marabout prepared by washing a chicken in the water.
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