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A gym in Melbourne’s inner north linked to former Mongol and professional kickboxer Suleiman “Sam” Abdulrahim has gone up in flames overnight.
Emergency crews were called to Power Gymnasium on Holmes Street, Brunswick, about 5am after triple-zero callers reported flames and smoke billowing from the front window and roof.
A fire broke out in the early hours of Friday morning at Power Gymnasium in Brunswick.Credit: Nine News
Victoria Police said the fire was not suspicious but “the exact circumstances surrounding the incident are yet to be determined”. No one was injured in the blaze, which caused extensive damage to the building.
Abdulrahim, who was shot multiple times in the chest last year while leaving a funeral in Fawkner, in Melbourne’s north, has posted numerous videos to social media of himself training at the gym.
Abdulrahim boxes professionally under the name The Punisher.
The business has also promoted the kickboxer, who fights under the ring name “The Punisher”, on Instagram.
Business records show Abdulrahim’s boxing promotion business, Power Promotions, is also registered to the gym’s address.
Two masked men ambushed Abdulrahim as he drove on Box Forest Road last June, peppering his black Mercedes-Benz with bullets, before spectacularly crashing their getaway car.
The hitmen later fled Australia for the Middle East.
It is the fourth time that a business connected to Abdulrahim has gone up in flames this year. A Moonee Ponds tobacco and vape store linked to the kickboxer’s sister was firebombed on three separate occasions in late May and early June.
Abdulrahim has previously denied his connection to the Moonee Ponds business despite promoting it on social media before the attack.
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