Tragic Details About The Iron Sheik

The Iron Sheik was a big name in professional wrestling, but he paid a heavy price for the fame. This is the tragic real-life story of The Iron Sheik.

In an industry of scripted events, plotlines, and characters, it would be easy enough to imagine that the Iron Sheik is actually just some dude from Ohio. This couldn't be further from the truth. According to Lew Freedman's book Pro Wrestling: A Comprehensive Reference Guide, the future Sheik really spent his early days in Iran's capital, Tehran.

The honorific of his wrestling character wasn't very accurate, though, because his family was actually quite poor. According to Bidoun, Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri was born in 1943 to a pistachio-farming family. He spent his early days without amenities such as running water, and as he grew up, he had to go through mandatory military service. This was presumably no picnic, but as a silver lining, it did give him ample time to hone his wrestling craft and even become the army's wrestling champion.

Keep watching to see the Tragic Details About The Iron Sheik.

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Youth in poverty | 0:08
The fall of a hero | 0:51
A difficult job | 1:44
Stolen medals | 2:29
Staying in character | 3:16
A big mistake | 4:15
Struggles with addiction | 5:07
Struggles with depression | 5:57
Pain | 6:59

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