 Gulam was proclaimed the winner, but all bets were reimbursed.Gulam returned to India where, shortly after 1900, he died of cholera.Desbonnet referred to Gulam as one of the two "super wrestlers" of modern times (the other being Yusuf İsmail) and Stanislaus Zbyszko told Robert W. Smith that, although he had never met Gulam himself, "I got information off one wrestler who did train with Gulam.