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The professional wrestling global has misplaced one in all its iconic characters. The Iron Sheik, a staple of WWE and WCW from 1979-2010, died on Wednesday. He was once 81.
Born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri in Iran in 1942, Sheik went directly to grow to be a WWE Corridor of Famer. He was once a mythical wrestling heel and had notable rivalries with Sgt. Slaughter and Hulk Hogan. Sheik gained the WWF Heavyweight Championship in 1983 and was the one Iranian champion in WWE historical past.
The Iron Sheik additionally purportedly originated the phrase “jabroni” in wrestling parlance that was once later made well-known via Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
With information of his loss of life, the wrestling global paid tribute to Sheik:
