Super Middleweight Contender Kabary Salem Arrested For Killing His Daughter
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
New York, NY (December 29th, 2020)– Former super middleweight contender Kabary ‘The Egyptian Magician’ Salem has been arrested and charged with the October 2018 murder of his daughter Ola Salem, 25, also a boxer, on Staten Island, New York. A medical examiner ruled her death a homicide from strangulation, and asphyxiation due to neck compression. Ms. Salem was an advocate for women suffering from domestic violence. Police had been called to the family home five times in the year before her death, an order of protection was violated, charges were lodged for criminal contempt, and Ms. Salem was seen being taken away from the home by ambulance at least once during these incidents before her tragic death.
Salem, 52, 23-5 with 12 knockouts and one no-contest, Cairo, Egypt, was arrested in Kuwait with Interpol assistance and extradited from Egypt, according to various news sources, for murdering his daughter sometime between October 23, 2020, and October 24, 2020. Her body was later found in a parked car near Bloomingdale Park on Staten Island. Salem had been on the run for over a year until his apprehension.
Salem competed for Egypt as a member of the Olympic boxing team in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, and 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. His infamous 1999 fight with Randy Carver, in which Carver eventually went down to the canvas after numerous headbutts by Salem, which were somehow ruled to be accidental, led to Carver’s death after the bout. A WBO NABO regional super middleweight champion, Kabary Salem fought Joe Calzaghe and Mario Veit for the WBO World Super Middleweight title in 2004, losing close 12 round decisions to both champions. He retired in 2005.
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