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 ...

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 ...

WWE bad guy the Iron Sheik was spitting in the ring before the "Hawk Tuah Girl" was even born. - Credit: youtube; Bobby Bank/WireImage When the Iron Sheik died last year at 81, the pro wrestling ...

When the Iron Sheik died last year at 81, the pro wrestling villain left behind his finishing move, the Camel Clutch, scores of hilarious yet polarizing tweets, and a cut-and-dry POV toward life ...

Monday, June 3, marks 35 years since the death of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The enigmatic religious leader-cum-revolutionary, who passed away in ...

Brad Balukjian, a gangly, socially awkward elementary schooler, loved the Iron Sheik, a villainous character known to wave an Ayatollah Khomeini flag while screaming “Death to America” at matches.

Slaughter apparently saw a big-money opportunity to feud with The Iron ... Sheik, based on real-life tensions at the time between America and Iran. "We really never got any payback from what ...