I was in 8th grade when my family went to Wrestlemania 7 as the LA sports arena. We got there early in hopes of seeing the wrestlers arrive and get pictures with them. The Iron Sheik was the first one we saw and we were scared and intimidated by him and he knew it. He saw us cowering and yelled over to my brother, my cousins and I and said 'Come, come and take picture with the Iron Sheik!' He was so nice and cool and put his arms around us and posed for a bunch of pictures. I'll never forget that.

@quentinkaasa47

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's pretty cool. Did your family intend to go to the LA Coliseum before the switch? Did you notice Lou Ferrigno and the Fonz?

@phr34k

Жыл бұрын

​@@quentinkaasa47 If I remember correctly at the end of WM6 the tickets for WM7 went on sale and we got them that night.

@dansokulski4039

Жыл бұрын

My dad owned Mobil station off River and Higgins in Rosemont for decades. Just blocks from the Horizon and the wrestlers would always stop at his station for cigs, Pop, chips, etc. He said Shieky Baby was always very friendly and respectful

@dansokulski4039

Жыл бұрын

@@quentinkaasa47 Only problem is if you were there live then ya missed the legendary commentary between Gorilla and Bobby!

@dree35

Жыл бұрын

​@@dansokulski4039 he g** asf talking about sheiky baby

"Russia, #1! Iran, #1! USA, Hacktui!" Good 80's memories.

@eriksmith7829

Жыл бұрын

Can’t do that today. Everyone would cry and be offended

@theatagamer90

3 ай бұрын

​@@eriksmith7829 Can't do it today because you'd have to probably find a Chinese wrestler. Think it could still work but if that guy lost you'd have some backlash from the Chinese market (however large or small that'd be). Imagine... "China #1!..." That'd be interesting at least.

@blondequijote

3 ай бұрын

​@theatagamer90 they made John Cena apologize for calling Taiwan a country. Further proof Cena represents everything that sucks about WWE today.

@benjaminperez7328

2 ай бұрын

FACK HO KOGAN!

@Today_I_Choose_Violence

17 күн бұрын

Sheiky baby was the first "hawk tuah" girl.

Possibly the greatest foreign menace heel EVER. Could walk the talk and was legit as it gets.

@tonybob47

Жыл бұрын

Saw thei Iron Sheik in Memphis back in the 80's

@spacemankad2108

Жыл бұрын

@@tonybob47 must've been a great experience.

@Uuusssaaas

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@E1VM

Жыл бұрын

100% legit! The sheik was the ultimate heel.

@insupportofjunhado

Жыл бұрын

Sorakichi Matsuda and The Terrible Turk would have had words with you, if they were still alive.

" Sheik always positive " " It was that Jabroni Hacksaw Jim Dugan "

@michaelinhouston9086

Жыл бұрын

Sheik: "I don't know how I was in the car with him" lmao

The importance of wrestling history is getting forgotten today, thank god we have these two brains to educate us

@quentinkaasa47

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget Brother Bruce.

@karma_coin

9 ай бұрын

@@quentinkaasa47 Eh, Bruce is good, but he's an often unreliable narrator, especially because of his sycophanting toward Vince. The good thing about Jim and Brian is that they swear no allegiances.

@quentinkaasa47

9 ай бұрын

@@karma_coinMy comment was tongue in cheek.

@karma_coin

9 ай бұрын

@@quentinkaasa47 oh, well, derp on me

Picturing the sheik riding with Him and Momma Cornette made my fucking DAY!! 😂😂😂

@user-do2ev2hr7h

Жыл бұрын

Same.

@larryturner7308

Жыл бұрын

Man that visual should've been the thumbnail 😂😂😂 Long live Sheiky Baby!

The funniest Sheik moment for me was in 1988 in AWA when they aligned Iron Sheik with Sheik Adnon Al-Kaissie stating it was part of the signed truce between Iran and Iraq to end their war in the 80's.

@Rjensen2

Жыл бұрын

Who says Verne Gagne was behind the times?

@terminallumbago6465

Жыл бұрын

@@Rjensen2 I remember Shawn saying in his autobiography that when he and Jannetty pitched Verne the idea of being the Rockers he asked them if the fans would confuse the name for rocking chairs. For context, this was the late 80s.

@Rjensen2

Жыл бұрын

@@terminallumbago6465 So, what?

@terminallumbago6465

Жыл бұрын

@@Rjensen2 I was referring to Verne being behind the times

@drwhowhatwhere

Жыл бұрын

It was considered "peace for our times"

Jim and Brian didn't mention the true crime moment of Shiek's daughter being killed by her boyfriend. And then Shiek was going to try to kill the guy at trial, but his family talked him out of it.

Jim is good enough that he invokes nostalgia from me explaining things that I never heard about

Freddy Blassie was lowkey the star of this too. I loved seeing him cheesing and laughing the entire time 😂😂😂😂😂

@Mr-ed5ep

Жыл бұрын

So true, he really created an aurora of hate and knew what to say.

Them doing Iron Sheik & Dusty & Lawler makes me hope we’ll get a “Superstar” Billy Graham one.

@blkpanther11

Жыл бұрын

Totally Agree

@rudemark1715

Жыл бұрын

They'll just shit on him now. Plus he supported that idiot Canadian wannabe pay them to let me wrestle Hannibal. Billy Graham sux.

@msw8966

Жыл бұрын

Poor Superstar is on his death bed.

@terminallumbago6465

Жыл бұрын

I’d love one on Snuka, Andre, and Vader if they haven’t already been done.

@eternalharmony7546

Жыл бұрын

I would love a terry funk one or Jim Duggan

Iranian Jim Cornette is possibly the greatest art I’ve ever seen in my life

@SteelSunday

Жыл бұрын

Ayatollah Corny

Being a child of the 80s, I remember being terribly confused by Hacksaw and Iron Sheik getting busted together....wasn't long after that, was watching a Celtics game on TBS and Dusty and Flair were sitting together....I began to suspect wrestling might be not be all it said it was.....

@tobiasfarragut292

Жыл бұрын

Getting busted on the road together in the cover of night on a lonely interstate Highway is one thing but Jesus Christ how tf did Crockett not lose his shit over these two enjoying the lakers Celtics series together smh😅 wtf

@samspurgeon4222

Жыл бұрын

@@tobiasfarragut292 I always wondered that too....Skip Caray was calling the game, and he even said something like "uh, aren't those guys enemies?" and laughed... I assume he was smart to the business as they say. Im guessing if it was anyone other than Crockett's 2 biggest stars they would have been in deep shit. Funny enough, this was also when Dusty was always showing up to do promos on the tv show wearing a Celtics jacket, because I remember Flair cutting one of his wild promos yelling about that jacket and wanting to destroy it 😂

@tobiasfarragut292

Жыл бұрын

@@samspurgeon4222 he said “If you wear that CELTIC GREEN JACKET!!…me and Tully are gonna stuff it down yer throat!!” Something like that

@citizenbeeswax7985

Жыл бұрын

Wow flair and dusty at a Celtics game? Maybe that happend during one of flair’s short stints as a baby face?

Jim talks about the Iron Sheik's drug abuse at the 45:36 mark likely severely hindering his mental state but I think that there's more to that. I mean, Sheik's daughter, Marissa being murdered back in 2003 was utterly devastating. I don't know how any father can recover from not only the loss of a child, but losing said child in a such a violent way. This is why, I feel horrible at laughing at Sheik's late in life reinvention as a lovably vulgar and eccentric grandfather because I don't know if that's just Sheik playing up his "foreign menace" gimmick for comedic effect or something deeper.

@dree35

Жыл бұрын

People don't mind they business his narcotic abuse doesn't involve them at all lmaoo

@PiCheZvara

Жыл бұрын

They said it in the documentary that he let it all out during the HOF speech. So really what from our POV was an old crazy guy babbling was really an old guy after years of hardships and after a whole life of not being the guy who needs to jump into every conversation, finally having a release, which probably was something he legit needed as a human being. Really this documentary reveals so much about many things including how Sheik pretty much became a joke as an old man when really he was legit, a solid man and anything but a joke.

@augustushaynes1311

4 ай бұрын

@@PiCheZvaraI don’t think his HOF speech was considered a joke. If anything, most guys would’ve gotten gently escorted off-stage if they had gone on forever the way Sheiky did. Instead, they more or less allowed him to do his thing, which was a show of respect.

This and the Dusty Rhodes one both left me crying by the end in a good way lol

@weegie18

Жыл бұрын

Cried when they told the story of his daughter.

He said “I dont wanna talk about politicians but left Iran” leads me to believe its deeper than they told

@81rbutler

Жыл бұрын

yeah they went over that part waaaaaaay too quickly

It's good to see a doc on someone that's still around,let's give the iron sheik his flowers 💐

@JohnNeumeister-xn3vm

Жыл бұрын

Umm they did Bret/Mick/Shawn/Booker/Austin/Mysterio/Edge/DX/Angle/Goldberg/Taker/Charlotte/Lawler/Kane/Jake/Shiek...16 out of 29..17 if you count the NWO...Most of them ARE alive

@Getwright-

Жыл бұрын

He meant someone from sheiks era. So people like Sheik, Dusty, lawler. If its a documentary on Charlotte flair of course shes alive. There’s significantly less as old as the Sheik. (Due to age and how hard wrestlers can be on there health)

@JohnNeumeister-xn3vm

Жыл бұрын

@@Getwright- Not the way I read it but if thats the way you read it..ok

I always said that the Iron Sheik had balls of steel to stand in the middle of Madison Square Garden and scream Iran #1 and spit on the ring after saying USA. I legit thought someone would kill him.

Hulk Hogan vs the Iron Sheik had a really good, bloody brawl for the WWF World Title about a month or two after Hogan won the belt.

Imagine Sheik being on the Dairy Queen trip with Corny.

Slaughter was the best WWF worker of the early 80s. His feud with Backlund was also one of the best of Bob’s title reign.

@brucemichaelgrossman4913

Жыл бұрын

The street fight with Pat Patterson was insane.

Imo nobody has benefited more from the invention of Twitter than Shieky Baby 😂

Lawler painting Jim as Khomeini is legendary 🤣

Glad they didn't show the face off interview with The Iron Sheik and New Jack where he asks Jack to get him some "medicine"

@blkpanther11

Жыл бұрын

I Heard About That Would've Been Priceless

@TheeCoachg

Жыл бұрын

Or when him,New Jack and Honky Tonk Man were in a motel and moon’d the camera

I want more Sheik and Cornie stories lmao

The Iron Sheik is the best bad guy

Ive enjoyed almost all these Bio's , but Jim and Brian breaking them down makes them even better ! If these get put out on DVD , These reviews should be an added bonus .

Ayatollah Cornetti!

They also missed out on his few WWF world title defenses, one against Tito Santana in January 1984

Was not expecting the Fort Wayne name drop lol hello from there

Sheik always positive 😂

Wait.... did this special not talk about his daughter's murder?! That happened in 2003, amidst his issues at the time - they covered it in The Sheik doc a few years ago, which is when I first heard of it & I was horrified something like that disappeared in the shadows of all his weird antics & issues of the time. Also feel like it goes without saying her murder possibly exacerbated those issues.

@quentinkaasa47

Жыл бұрын

They got to it in the last 10 minutes or so. It happened about 20 years ago now, so it felt weird with them bringing it up so late, before the program wrapped up. They really should have cut out some of the stuff in the middle, about Sheik dropping the title to Hogan. It was a pivotal moment in history for sure, but it wasn't nearly as big of a deal as what Hogan did afterwards with Piper.

Dusty and Graham's bullrope match was pretty bloody

I remember in 1978/79 when he was in the WWWF as the Great Hossein Arab, managed by Fred Blassie. And he would twirl the Persian clubs, and my dad said "Those Goddamn things are probably hollow!"

The Iron and Hacksaw story was fking huge. It was in the news cycle for a moment minute

There was another Sheik documentary that involved his wife called From A to Z

For me this was by far the best of the season

@terminallumbago6465

Жыл бұрын

I think Dusty’s was my favorite imo.

Sheiky Baby!!! Great heel. Very entertaining.

I have been going back to watch old wrestling as the current stuff sucks and my first time seeing Precious Paul not as a manager was in a Persian club challenge against the Sheik. Both of them really grew on me between those two and Hacksaw jim duggan and Ernie ladd it made me realise just how much i had missed outside of the WWF.

Classy Freddie Blassie was awesome!!!! Ayatollah Blassie!! Great manager gimmick!!! He was my favorite manager of all time at a time when there were some greats!!

Why didn't they just turn Hacksaw heel and have him come out with Sheik saying he's been converted like they did with Sgt Slaughter?

Jim selling ads may be my favorite thing of all time.

His wife seems so sweet, my lord what she has been through. The daughter being murdered was just horrific, I can’t imagine that pain. As a kid I loved the “bad” guys. My brother and I got in so much trouble for standing for the Russian national anthem. The bad guys were fun and interesting.

The Iron Sheik was my favorite wrestler as a kid (I loved the heels and he was the best). When The Sheik beat Backlund for the belt....I was in heaven!! This doc was a bit vanilla however. I did not really learn anything - except for Verne Gagne's wife given him the moniker!! I never knew that!!! Still it was a decent watch.

"Back when men were men! And sheep were scared." Haha

@TotallyFarked999

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of something Al Bundy would have said about Wanker County. I know I've heard the joke before on some popular thing

I liked iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff back in the day. They were some great heals.

I like when they dig into the history of WWE guys when it comes to their work outside of WWE.

Hulk Hogan was my favorite wrestler as a kid and Iron Sheik is my favorite wrestler as an adult.

the iron sheikhs family was featured on his documentary film a few years back. movie was really popular.

I remember hearing that when The Iron Sheik was working in Dallas that he helped train the Von Erich boys. I also remember that the way they tried to explain Sheik becoming Col. Mustafa was because Sarge had renamed him.

The Sheiky's Howard Stern segment made me laugh so hard that i literally cried 🤣😭

Hogan and Slaughter had a bloody match in 1991.

@quentinkaasa47

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. That was the bloodiest WrestleMania match up to that point. Not sure if Flair/Savage surpassed it a year later.

@Halbared

Жыл бұрын

@@quentinkaasa47 They had another one in the summer. Hogan wore fatigues. I think it used to be on the Wrestlefest video.

I hated the Iron Sheik when I was a kid, but what a life he led. Just watched the WWE Legends of the Sheik, condolences to his family and rest in peace to one of the all time greats.

His Hall of Fame speech was the best!😂 just kept going on when they played his music to leave 😅

@marvinleong5902

Жыл бұрын

Then Mean Gene has to step in to end his speech hahaha

So I saw this last night, had no idea what to expect and I must say I was really impressed, tbf they skipped ahead a bunch of times but I guess from an editing stand point there was only so much they could keep in.

@richardstetson8221

Жыл бұрын

I agree someone in the comments said they stopped watching the a&e docs cus they put in the bare minimum but I disagree they have to fit the story in a 2 hour show with commercials so they have to keep it moving I thought they did a good job with it I wasn't expecting them to show him acting crazy on Howard stern and shoot interviews that we can watch on KZread

Was a great documentary. Really incredible story his amateur career. Was a wrestler who lived his gimmick in real life he become his gimmick. I still say wwf would have succeeded without him but I can’t take away his important and impact on the the wrestling business . I’m willing to bet 100 grand wasn’t much money to him at that time, really seems out of line to ask him that. I don’t see the Duggan and shiek arrest being a black eye on the industry that really destroyed sheiks career cost him a lot of money. He’s another important wrestler that helped develop wrestling into a mainstream sport. I still say throughout the 80s and 90s wrestling was on as grand a stage as nfl nba mlb.

@LuckyStrike01

Жыл бұрын

Him and Duggan getting pulled over was a HUGE deal when it happened. You had local newscasts that never reported on wrestling(or making fun of it somehow) covering the story all over the US. Back then kayfabe was in full swing so it wasn’t about the drugs the big deal was that a heel from Iran and the all American babyface were traveling together and friends. That was big big news. Nowadays nobody would care because kayfabe pretty much died around 1996 after the curtain call, Vince Russo, and the attitude era killed it. Back then there was no such thing as shoot interviews and podcasts.

@johnnyargon5454

Жыл бұрын

I don't think kayfabe was in full effect in 1987. Everyone had to know it was a work by that point.

@LuckyStrike01

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnyargon5454 people suspected but really until the internet a couple tv specials in the late 90s and the attitude era flat out telling everyone there was always plausible deniability on the wrestlers end. The only ones that really KNEW it was a work were in the business already, related to someone in the business or one of the few smart fans out there that subscribed to the dirt sheets and/or were trying to break into the business themselves. Most intelligent people suspected but the wrestlers and their families protected the business and kayfabe with their lives because breaking it would cost them their livelihood. Dr D lost his job protecting in in the wwf, Vader was arrested in Saudi Arabia and Richard belzer retired to “Che Hogan” his home in France paid for by Hulk Hogan after choking him out on tv. You have to keep in mind that wrestling as a whole was something that mostly unintelligent people really went nuts over and believed and the ones that pretty much figured it was a work still had that plausible deniability because some stuff really looked legit. I don’t know if you were alive in 87 but I was and kayfabe was still in full swing and that arrest was huge news because every newsroom or small time newspaper in the country wanted to be the first to tell everyone wrestling was “fake”.

@johnnyargon5454

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that one old news reporter seemed really offended. I feel for sheik cause it did kind of ruin him.

@whodat1884

Жыл бұрын

At no point was wrestling comparable to the NBA or NFL lmao not in payment, not in commitment, not in skill, not in any way lol

Not only did Verne hire Shieky to break Hogan's leg for 100,000 bucks , I heard that Verne was possibly trying to pay Brody around that sum to beat the shit out of Mr. T right before the main event of Mania 1 to sabotage the event . But Ive heard several versions of that story with different promoter's names like Bill Watts . So ...who knows if there is any truth to that . But also we do all know every territory was freaking out about Vince at the time hurting their biz . So its not far fetched .

@Rjensen2

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe there are people that actually believe this. Verne's ego was such that he couldn't admit that Hogan's leaving had an effect on the AWA.

I looked at the iron shiek being col. Mustafa the same as hulk hogan being mr. America.

I'm gonna have to buy me some Shady Rays now and stare right at the sun for hours!!!! Lmao😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The Corny Sheik, love it 🤩😂

@J.D.1.

Жыл бұрын

That's a Corny Ayatollah

Please, we need some follow-ups to some of the questions asked in this video.

That ad at the end had me rolling

I remember Bobbby's line. Still makes me laugh today.

The sheik 🇮🇷 vs. sgt slaughter. In a bootcamp match. At msg. Was a bloodbath. 👋

The reason I remember for him being called Col. Mustafa was that the Iron Sheik had been banned from the WWF. Piper as I recall called him out on commentary during one of his first matches much like he did Tony Atlas saying that he wasn't supposed to be there.

@JCD489

Жыл бұрын

Was because their stable was meant to be military. Sgt slaughter , col masts Fa and General Adnan.

I remember hacksaw Jim Dugan in the car like it was yesterday. Wow! Time flies.

I’m 39 and my brother was a year old and we had iron sheik and Hillbilly Jim action figures this was in 1987-88 lol.

The Golden Sheik was Kenny Omega’s uncle Larry Dubesky.

Don Callus' Golden Sheik

Haha for me Sheik shaving Gene's mustache would have hurt the business more than breaking Hogan's leg.

Hahaha the agent story was fantastic.

I thought this one was good as well but I also didn't know much about him

Shieky Baby! He confronted and demanded a match with his arch nemesis "CAPITOLA REDANECKA DICKA MUUUURDOCK!"

Artwork. Dope. Kudos 👍

Great episode. I heard Jimmy Snuka gave The Iron Sheik the suggestion to wear the pointy boots?

Saw the Iron Sheik in 1984 at a WWF show....we were standing by the heels entrance and sheiky baby came out to have a look at crowd (I guess) and he turned a gave a lil wave to us...i feel bad today😅but he was the first adult i ever flipped off...i was maybe 11 ...he turned around just walk back in the lockeroom...Andre was there too....never saw a man get in a car twice at one time

Damn I loved Post Toasties as a kid and the Shady Ray's promo is the best!

His name was changed to col mustafa because they was meant to be an army you had General Adnan in the stable too. Shiek is a title not a name , so the name change isn’t really that bad. No reason it couldn’t still be the same character.

@tafua_a

Жыл бұрын

It would have been cool if they called him "Colonel Vaziri" or "Colonel Khosrow", since Mean Gene often introduced him with his full name.

"Ahh... Mrs. Cornette... make-a the arch for the Sheik."

Strangely enough the Ayatollah that is painted on the cartoon pic for the video looks more like Khomeini's son and also his grandson who ironically is a dissident cleric who doesn't like the regime.

So ya know how great sheik was as a heel when I was young in the 80s I was in grade school my dad knew wrestling was a show they choreographed things an. Characters weren't real but when iron sheik came on my dad would cuss holler tell at the tv wanting somebody to beat his ass ..good times I miss the old days of wrestling when it was "kinda' believable they just don't have it anymore 😢

I’m buying Shady Rays because of Jim’s comments. Hilarious!

as someone from Evansville. it does indeed suck. lol

The boots TERRIFIED me as a 7 year old, I thought they were hard plastic or metal and would cut and blind the babyfaces with even a simple kick.

In tears at the shady rays promotion

I think the Golden Sheik was Big Steve Petitepas from the maritime territory of Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling.

Still have his rubber 1986 LJN action figure

Should've just said Iron Sheik beat Duggan in Puerto Rico, with the loser having to be the winner's chauffeur

Top of the day to everyone in the cult of Cornette!

Really great to revist the story of Shieky baby!!!!

The Iron Sheik's shoot interviews are the stuff of legend!!! & only legends have seen the shoot Interview with Iron Sheik, New Jack, & Honky Tonk Man!!! XD

2:40 It's the same principle as Ancient Aliens. Real historians would get in the way of the story by telling the truth.

I love the term Jim said " He was suicided " lol !!

"Gene Mean intelligent jew"~ Iron Sheik

I was 14 when duggan and the sheik made national news getting caught together it was a very big deal to all wrestling fans miss the 80’s

FINALLY some Iron Sheik

Shady Rays got me good.

(Grabs turkey by neck)" stupid chicken patooi!"

Yeah, the Col. Mustafa stuff didn't make sense. I think Vince was downplaying the age demo of who was watching in 91, probably thinking the older fans from Hulkamanias peak were long gone by then.

A bloody incident match in WWE, was The Magnificent Murocco and? I think it was actually in the WWF magazine.