Wikipedia: Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, born March 15, 1943, in Tehran, Iran, is a retired Iranian professional wrestler better known by his ring name The Iron Sheik. He is known for ending the near six year World Wrestling Federation Championship reign of Bob Backlund and for being the man Hulk Hogan defeated for his first WWF Championship, setting off the Golden Age of professional wrestling. He was also a bodyguard for the Shah of Iran's family several years while they still lived in Iran. In 2005, Khosrow was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame >>>
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I miss the Sheik
by Anonymous-now (not verified) on Thu Jul 24, 2008 07:41 PM PDTHe was one of my favorite wrestler's...and the only reason I used to watch "wraslin"...He was my hero growing up just because the US needed enemies and what better than an Iranian enemy of the West who carried around the Iranian "Allah" flag and pictures of Khomeini...