WWE-Iron Sheik Dead

[PLRX]

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/iron-...-famer-dead-81

[The_Dude]

81 is a really good run for a pro wrestler though

[PLRX]

Originally Posted by The_Dude

81 is a really good run for a pro wrestler though

Thats a fact indeed.

[DJ_Critterus]

I'm in charge of the bars and bartenders for the River City Wrestling Con this weekend. I'm sure with all the current and former pro wrestlers who will be here, I'll hear a lot about the Sheik.

[Vandelay Industries]

Vaxxed?

[BaghdadBadger] So Trump duped him too? [/BaghdadBadger]

[6spdC6]

Years back I worked PT for a friend at his gas station/ garage.

They were holding a big wrestling show in Albany that night The Sheik and Hacksaw Jim Duggan were scheduled for a big match.

The match was nasty and it appeared the two had just about killed each other after exchanging a lot of verbal put downs. (Friends went to the match and told me that)

Well just before I closed the station car came in for gas. It contained the Sheik and Duggan sharing a doobie. I talked to them for about 5 minutes! They were the best of friends contrary to what it looked like at matches.

[Onebadcad]

He was a great character, born in iran, but moved to USA in early 1970s, he was a coach for our olympic teams.
His twatter account was AWESOME, he dropped more F-bombs than anyone.

[Black94lt1]

One of the greats, RIP

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

He was a great character, born in iran, but moved to USA in early 1970s, he was a coach for our olympic teams.
His twatter account was AWESOME, he dropped more F-bombs than anyone.

And he always finished his rants with "I will **** your ass!"

YouTube

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Years back I worked PT for a friend at his gas station/ garage.

They were holding a big wrestling show in Albany that night The Sheik and Hacksaw Jim Duggan were scheduled for a big match.

The match was nasty and it appeared the two had just about killed each other after exchanging a lot of verbal put downs. (Friends went to the match and told me that)

Well just before I closed the station car came in for gas. It contained the Sheik and Duggan sharing a doobie. I talked to them for about 5 minutes! They were the best of friends contrary to what it looked like at matches.

Great story, I think most of them get along very well, as they are road buddies and spend more time together than with their families.

I still remember ric flair stating that as a young wrestler, after every match, the hotel bar stayed open past closing time due to the wrestlers would not leave; he made it worthwhile for the bar staff.

It is a hard and stressful life, best plan is to make your money and get out in 10-15 years.

[Onebadcad]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...career-success

WWE Legend Hacksaw Jim Duggan Explains How Drug Arrest Hurt His Career
JUSTIN LABAR
MAY 8, 2012

WWE legend “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan thinks the fork in the road for his career came in 1987 when he got pulled over by the police.

Duggan was riding with The Iron Sheik when his vehicle was pulled over in a routine traffic stop. Duggan confessed to the officer they had marijuana in the car but Duggan didn't know The Iron Sheik had cocaine in his possession.

[Louie Detroit]

RIP George Farhat, he was a legend from Lansing. MI. A well loved dude.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

RIP George Farhat, he was a legend from Lansing. MI. A well loved dude.

Damn, you jarred my memory, I remembered him only slightly.
He was a great wrestler, an innovator of hardcore, and a very good promoter in Michigan,,, he does not get the credit he deserves.
He trained Rob VD, and the Steiners, among others.
Looks like the jab did him in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheik_(wrestler)

Legacy

Farhat
During the course of his in-ring career, The Sheik was seen as one of professional wrestling's biggest box office attractions. He later became regarded as a pioneer of hardcore wrestling, a style which became a major part of mainstream American professional wrestling in the 1990s. On March 31, 2007, The Sheik was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his nephew, Sabu, and Rob Van Dam, who he had trained. He is also credited with training Scott Steiner and independent wrestler "Machine Gun" Mike Kelly, among other students. Most notably, he and Freddie Blassie trained boxer Muhammad Ali before Ali's famous 1976 "boxer vs wrestler match" with Antonio Inoki in Tokyo.

As a promoter, Farhat developed a reputation for short-changing wrestlers and employees on pay. However, he would additionally become known as a benefactor to friends in need; according to Harley Race, after his wife died in an automobile accident and he was forced to take time off early in his career, The Sheik mailed him a check every week for a year until he could return to work.

His wife, and former valet, Joyce, died on November 27, 2013, in Michigan, after being ill for some time. She is buried with her husband at Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Williamston, Michigan. He was also the uncle of Michael Farhat, who wrestled as "Mike Thomas" in Detroit. Thomas died in 1978 at age 27. The Sheik's son Tom died on October 2, 2020, from kidney cancer at 57, and his eldest son Ed Farhat Jr. — who wrestled under the ring name "Captain Ed George" — died from complications of COVID-19 on March 22, 2021, at the age of 70.

In his later years, Farhat provided extensive interviews to a biographer with the intent of publishing a book on his life. These interviews provided a detailed non-kayfabe look into his career and character, which he previously took great effort in concealing from the public. Farhat had previously had a reputation for "living his gimmick"; he didn't answer promoter phone calls for "Ed", not even for potential bookings, telling the promoters "no Ed lives here". After his death, the interviews and draft of the book were sealed. A book about Farhat's life and career, titled Blood and Fire, was later released in April 2022 by ECW Press. Blood and Fire won the 2022 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Best Pro Wrestling Book award.

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by The_Dude

81 is a really good run for a pro wrestler though

Especially one as "excitable" as the Sheik.

[Onebadcad]

Originally Posted by dvarapala

Especially one as "excitable" as the Sheik.

That is VIDEO GOLD, have not seen better, unless hotties getting rid of clothing.