Master Rami Al Banna.

• 2001 was the year he became the first Arab to win more than three international titles in a single year, representing Lebanon.
• The 2009 London title was his second consecutive world championship win. He was the only Arab to take gold in the heavyweight division, over 90kg, that year, against roughly 1,200 competitors from 65 countries.
• In Antalya, his gold was the first his Qatar club had ever won at that tournament, from a field of 22 nations. One win came by knockout, 15 seconds into the bout, against the Azerbaijani title holder.
• Transcribed from two of the club’s own cuttings and cross-checked against each other. Where a year or a result was not legible on the page, it is left out rather than guessed.

Qatar Tribune ran him under the headline “Set up kickboxing association in Qatar, says world champ,” after his second consecutive world title win. In it, he called for a Qatar Kickboxing Association, and credited the karate union’s Youssuf al Kazim and the Qatar Olympic Committee’s then secretary-general, HE Sheikh Saoud bin Abdurrahman al Thani, for backing the push.

The Peninsula profiled him as “Youngster Rami eyeing greater success,” tracking his move from Lebanon’s national colours to Qatar’s in 2002. He has since been interviewed on Qatar Television and Al Jazeera, introduced on air, plainly, as “Master, and former world champion in kickboxing.”

+Qatar Tribune‘Set up kickboxing association in Qatar, says world champ’, with the achievements sidebar.+The Peninsula‘Youngster Rami eyeing greater success’, with the full results table.+Arabic press, AntalyaA world martial arts title, taken in Antalya.+Gulf Times‘Rami al-Banna, kickboxing his way to fame and glory’.+Gulf Times, 14 February 2020‘Kids learn basics of martial arts on National Sport Day’, from Katara.+Arabic press, Lebanon‘Al Banna, a Lebanese champion taking the road to the world’.+Arabic pressWorld bronze in kickboxing, won in Chicago.+Arabic press, LondonAn awards night for a London club.+Arabic press interview‘My next goal is an Asian medal and another world one’.+Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 28 August 2001The 2001 English titles, listed one by one.

Ten pages from the club’s album. Four of them are the ones quoted in the copy above, cross-checked against each other; the rest are shown as photographed, without a transcription, because we have not verified what they say line by line.