 He returned to Europe and won back the European Heavyweight Championship in 1952.After Assirati was chosen to wrestle the long time AWA World Heavyweight Champion Maurice Tillet The French Angel who was known as Unstoppable, and had won for a span of 19 consecutive months.Tillet's final wrestling match was in Singapore on February 14, 1953, he was working for The National Wrestling Alliance Mid South Area then known as Tri-State and owned by Leroy McGuirk had agreed to lose to Bert Assirati, because Tillet's health had begun to fail due to being diagnosed with acromegaly at the early age of 20.