Koksal Baba
YouTube Star
Former boxer who became an unlikely online star when a 2015 video of him attacking a man on the street went viral, being viewed more than 6 million times. Since then, his eponymous YouTube channel has taken off, attracting more than 1.2 million with videos from his daily life in Turkey.
He hails from the city of Trabzon on the coast of northern Turkey.
He boxed for nearly two decades and retired from the sport in 2010. He claims to have been the Turkish junior boxing champion from 1995 to 1998.
His full name is Köksal Bektaşoğlu. He was born in Turkey.
He has frequently been compared to Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf of The Howard Stern Show fame in the media.