Muslim celebrities, American basketball giant Shaquille O’Neal (height 216 cm/7 ft 1 in) and 20-year-old Russian blogger Hasbulla Magomedov (height 100 cm/3 ft 4 in) met in Sydney last weekend, posting their videos that have gone viral on social media.
Shaquille known as Shaq is regarded as the greatest basketball players who played for six teams over his 19-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a four-time NBA champion. His eldest son Shareef, 22 (height 208 cm) is also an American professional basketball player.
Hasbulla is one of the most popular mixed martial arts personalities having a large following on social media with more than 3 million followers on Instagram, 1.3 million followers on TikTok and more than 133,000 followers on Twitter. He is currently on his first international tour.
Shaq is in Australia to lend his support to the campaign for an Indigenous voice in parliament meeting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australian Minister Linda Burney on Saturday 27 August.
“Whatever you need from me, just let me know,” Shaq told Albanese, “Shaq loves Australia.”
Shaquille posted a video on his social media accounts showing Hasbulla “sneaking up” on him and delivering a right hook to the big man in a yacht in Sydney harbour on Sunday 28 August 2022.
“I can’t wait to see all my Aussie fans and visit these amazing cities, I come from a tiny town in Russia, so I am looking forward to experiencing a different culture,” Hasbulla said ahead of his visit to Australia.
Hasbulla is from Makhachkala in the republic of Dagestan, in the Russian Federation. He lives with Growth Hormone Deficiency (or dwarfism) and celebrates his condition with confidence, light humour and entertaining content.
Hasbulla is a practicing Muslim sharing his love for Islam regularly, which in turn has garnered him a large Muslim following.
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