SAINT PETER THE IRON SHEIK CLASS!
FACKIN BOOLSHEEEEET! GREEM REAPER GO FACK YOURSELF YOU NO GOOD JABRONI YOU DISREPECT THA LEGEND. I PUT YOU IN THE CAMEL CLUTCH AND FACK YOUR BONY ASS WITH MY TEN INCH IRANIAN COCK YOU NO GOOD MATHERFACKER.
In a day bubbas everywhere were dreading, premier wrestling heel and foul-mouthed Hogan nemesis Iron Sheik has been made humble aged 81. All the intelligent Jews, they know The Iron Sheik, but we’ll still give a rundown for the uninitiated. Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri was a prominent amateur wrestler in his native Iran, where he also worked as bodyguard to the Shah. He moved to the United States in the early 70s to help coach their Olympic wrestling team, and shortly thereafter segued to pro wrestling.
Sheik donned several ring names throughout the 70s and early 80s, but his general persona was established pretty early on – a bald, mustachioed, unhinged and oft-unintelligible heel modeled on prior wrestling villain The Sheik, using his Iranian ethnicity as the central gimmick with a keffiyeh and a “rah rah, Iran number one” national fervor. Against the backdrop of Iran’s Ayatollah takeover and subsequent hostage crisis, Sheik became one of the Doubleyoo Doubleyoo Eff’s most love-to-hate baddies, and he Camel Clutched the Championship belt off Bob Backlund in 1983.
A Sheik-Backlund rematch was planned, but Backlund backed out in favour of a fresh face. If any country knows a thing about thinking they’re the greatest, it’s America, and Hulk Hogan ran wild into the ring with all the patriotism of bald eagles, apple pie, and school shootings. Much nicer than his ring persona let on, Sheik turned down an $100k offer from Verne Gagne to break Hogan’s leg, and ultimately the Camel Clutch was no match for the Atomic Legdrop. Hulkamania dominated the WWF scene from there, but Sheik kept prominent and often jostled with Sgt. Slaughter. He formed a memorable tag team with Soviet (actually Croatian) Nikolai Volkoff, with the men jointly spitting at the USA and winning the World Tag Team Championship against the U.S. Express.
Sheik’s career waned from there, with drug addictions derailing his prior stardom and the tragic 2003 murder of his daughter exacerbating his vices. He largely cleaned up by the 2010s. In some regards being coked off his mind worked in his favour – in the early aughts, he debuted an even more batshit version of the Sheik persona on The Howard Stern Show who skewered Hogan, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior, and numerous other wrestling nemeses with expletive-laden rants and sodomy threats. The outrageously hilarious diatribes led to a career resurgence for Sheiky Baby, with appearances on The Jerry Springer Show and an oft-circulated shoot interview with RF Video.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, and several years later a highly popular Twitter account in his name (though typed by his PR team) told everyone and everything (Hogan especially) to go fuck themselves. A documentary on his life was released in 2014 and he remained one of the industry’s most popular figures into his old age. He was picked by two teams that were PROBABLY RAN BY HULK HOGAN THE NO GOOD SON OF A BITCH.
The Iron Sheik
15 March 1942 – 7 June 2023, aged 81
2 TEAMS (💀💀💀💀💀💀 6 POINTS)