[Gmac]

I used to love watching this guy:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/iron-sheik-...07360.html

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The Sheik walks with the aid of a cane, but even with the cane, he moves slowly, unsteadily, and with great difficulty.
"He's such a big, strong guy, and he hurts so much, it hurts me to see him," she said. "He had operations on both of his knees about 10 years ago, and they failed. He hurts everywhere, but the knees are really painful. He told me, 'Caryl, I hurt from the top of my head to the bottom of my toes.' It breaks my heart. He can withstand a lot of pain, but this is too much for him."
His left knee is particularly painful, and gruesome looking. A bone protrudes out. The bones, Caryl Vaziri said, are out of alignment and "don't come together." It makes it torture to walk.
He loved his job, and wouldn't trade his years as a pro wrestler for anything. He won the WWF (now WWE) world championship on the night after Christmas in 1983 when he beat Bob Backlund. He then went on to have a lengthy feud with Hulk Hogan. He might have become the greatest heel – pro wrestling parlance for a bad guy – in the sport's long history.

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Volkoff and the Sheik played off the anti-Soviet, anti-Iranian mindset that was prevalent in the U.S. in the late 1970s and through the 1980s.
The Iron Sheik would routinely grab the microphone from the ring announcer and shout to an enraged crowd, "Iran, No. 1! Russia, No. 1!"
Hossein Vaziri is presented with a medal for wrestling accomplishments.

At that point, he'd say "USA!" and then spit on the ground. Volkoff would then take the microphone and sing the Russian national anthem as the crowd booed mercilessly.

Also one of the best real life trolls of all time.

[JimNortonFan]

[Roosh]

[eradicator]

I wouldn't call the shiek one of the all time greatest heels. Think flair and the horsemen, ric rude, dibiase, bret hart, kurt angle. What shiek got was cheap heat but he was always more cartoonish than anything but his time was during the cartoonish days of the wwf so it was a good fit.

If the article was trying to say he could have become a great heel, he wasn't a particularly great worker despite his amateur background. And his gimmick was a cartoon. He never really was a main eventer, bob backlund refused to drop the belt to someone with no amateur background, so shiek was the transitional champion. That said, his shoot interviews were epic.

[soup]

I met him once and that's not a so much a character he puts on- he's like that in real life.

[Tuthmosis]

(06-30-2013 10:29 AM)soup Wrote:  

I met him once and that's not a so much a character he puts on- he's like that in real life.

Dude, I've met a shit-load of "Iron Sheiks." He's only like a 10 percent exaggeration of an actual type of guy. Hyper-masculine Middle-Eastern dudes who aren't afraid to fight, are ultra-proud of their countries of origin, love talking about pussy, and are hilarious. You can sit around talking shit with these guys all day. The best part is that they do the whole thing with an accent.

Don't forget this boss from the other thread (Credit: WIA).

[vinman]

This is the funniest shit you will hear him say.

[Anaguma]

(06-30-2013 09:05 AM)JimNortonFan Wrote:  

I only vaguely remember the Iron Sheik, but...lol oh my. This is pure comedic gold.

"If you are the not faggot, come and show me motherfucker!"
"Take out your dick! Take out your dick!"

[Merenguero]

(07-01-2013 01:16 PM)Anaguma Wrote:  

(06-30-2013 09:05 AM)JimNortonFan Wrote:  

I only vaguely remember the Iron Sheik, but...lol oh my. This is pure comedic gold.

"If you are the not faggot, come and show me motherfucker!"
"Take out your dick! Take out your dick!"

I remember a few years ago, he was on the Killers of Comedy tour with some wack packers from the Howard Stern show and some other comedians. He ended up getting into a shouting match with Beetlejuice, which did not seem at all fake or staged. After that incident, I think Sequoia Slentz, who was the promoter of Killers of Comedy, had to kick the Iron Sheik off the tour.