Another 80's icon now and one of the best "Heals" in wrestling now gone.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iron-sheik-wrestling-legend-social-media-star-dies-81-rcna88160
Another 80's icon now and one of the best "Heals" in wrestling now gone.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iron-sheik-wrestling-legend-social-media-star-dies-81-rcna88160
“Irrrran, #1, Rrrrussia, #1, U.S.A (spit). “ Man, that really got the ‘Merica crowd going back in the day. WWF had no problem stoking ethnic flames back then. He and Piper were the best heels in the early 80’s.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:No longer will he have to take guff from the Jabronis.
He's smoking crack in Heaven now.
Oh you heard him on Stern too?
Quoted from vdojaq:Oh you heard him on Stern too?
No, but a doc about him a decade ago featured footage of him smoking crack. He had an addictive personality!
He was part of that pack of wrestlers from the 80's that seemed to be everywhere including The Goonies - Good Enough music vid. Geeze I'm dating myself now...
Quoted from vdojaq:Oh you heard him on Stern too?
He was great on Stern. “I eff you in the a$$”.
I always liked the heels. Never liked the “heroes” like Hogan. I stopped watching by wrestle mania 3.
Captain Lou and Cindy Lauper had an odd relationship. What was with that rubber band?
Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.
Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!
This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/rip-the-iron-sheik and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.
Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.