He was born in 1938 in Eskiköy , a village of Doğanşar district in Sivas Province in the eastern part of Central Anatolia as the sixth child of a poor family . Ahmet Ayık lost four of his siblings during the 1939 Erzincan earthquake . He began wrestling as a youngster in the traditional Turkish Karakucak Güreşi
1939 Erzincan earthquake
1939 Erzincan earthquake
Ahmet Ayık