Career
Benaissa represented Algeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed for the men"s 60 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to Russia"s Zaur Kuramagomedov, who was able to score one point each in two straight periods, leaving Benaissa without a single point. In 2015 World Wrestling Championships he lost bronze medal match to Davor Štefanek of Serbia.