High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shaun Koen is a South African professional wrestler and promoter of the Africa Wrestling Alliance. Koen is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father Jackie Koen competed in the professional wrestling industry. Koen made his debut in 1986 for his father's promotion, Ring Promotions, wrestling under his real name. From 1989 to 1994, he wrestled for numerous other South African promotions, such as Interworld Wrestling Promotions and Tiger Jeet Singh's Anglo Asian Wrestling Federation. In 1992, he won the All-Africa Heavyweight Championship from the Zimbabwean Big Mike Zuma in Cape Town. Following his father's death and the collapse of Ring Promotions, he formed the Africa Wrestling Federation in 1995.