On February 21, 1999 Aleksandr Karelin defeated Akira Maeda in a professional wrestling contest that drew a gate of $1 million.
Representing the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Ghaffari reached the final of the Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg, where he lost to Russia's Aleksandr Karelin.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Stackelberg | Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov | Aleksandr Usov | Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship | ''Imperator Aleksandr II''-class | Aleksandr Rodzyanko | Aleksandr Panayotov | Aleksandr Loktionov | Aleksandr Viktorovich Zakharov | Aleksandr Vasilyev | Aleksandr's Price | Aleksandr Shavlokhov | Aleksandr Myasnikyan | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov | Aleksandr Lyapunov | Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov | Aleksandr Derevyagin | Aleksandr Burago | Aleksandr Baranov | Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III | Russian battleship ''Imperator Aleksandr III''' | Battleship ''Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III | Aleksandr Zakharov | Aleksandr Yuryevich Gushchin | Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nechayev | Aleksandr Yakovlevich Chistyakov | Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Chistyakov | Aleksandr Voronsky | Aleksandr Vladimirovich Nechayev |