Wrestling legend Iron Sheik as relevant and unhinged as ever By . Kirsten Fleming. Published April 30, ... Iranian-born Vaziri makes a slightly less dramatic entrance than during his WWF heyday, ...

The wide world of wrestling is no stranger to tender geopolitical fault lines. At the first WrestleMania in March 1985, tag team partners The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff ratcheted up the Cold ...

The Iron Sheik knocked on embattled Mayor Rob Ford’s office door Wednesday. The wrestling legend’s unexpected entrance at City Hall amid Ford’s ongoing crack cocaine scandal captured the ...

The Iron Sheik maintained that AWA promoter Verne Gagne offered to pay him money to break Hogan's leg in the match as retaliation for Hogan walking out on the promotion. However, the match went ...

A policewoman in her late twenties stops to greet Vaziri — better known as 1980s pro-wrestling villain the Iron Sheik — with a reverent “Hello, Sheik,” while a group of fortysomething guys ...

The Iron Sheik died Wednesday at the age of 81, according to his Twitter account. He became a WWE champion in 1983 and was elected to the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.

The Iron Sheik, whose real name was Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 after an in-ring career that spanned four decades, starting in 1972.

The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport’s biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died ...