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* ClusterFBomb: Many of his interviews
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: He ended the 6-year championship run of Bob Backlund, capturing the world championship in the process.
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* ClusterFBomb: Many of his interviews
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* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: He endedthe Bob Backlund's 6-year championship run of Bob Backlund, title run, capturing the world championship in the process.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: He ended
* IsThisThingStillOn: Wrestling/JimCornette tells a story from back in the territory days, he and the Sheik were working for a promotion which had a commissioner who was not "smart" (aware of {{kayfabe}}), and therefore imposed a number of limitations on the show, for instance, anyone who was not a licensed announcer was not allowed on the mic. Cornette was working as the announcer, and the Sheik tried to take the mic off him. As they struggled over the mic, Cornette warned him about the commissioner, and, just as Cornette lost his grip, Sheik screamed "OH, FACK DEH KOMEESHUNUR!" at the top of his lungs into the mic.
* ProWrestlingIsReal: When he gets really excited in his interviews, he seems to forget he doesn't have to maintain Kayfabe anymore.
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* HatingOnMonday: Nary a Monday will pass without at least one "FUCK THE MONDAY" on his Twitter feed. Usually several.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Besides gaining one hell of a beer belly, he looks exactly the same as he did in the 80s.
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* Angrish: Let's just say he focuses far more on the subject itself than how he actually conveys it.
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* Angrish: {{Angrish}}: Let's just say he focuses far more on the subject itself than how he actually conveys it.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He was quite slim and had hair on his head without the mustache in his amateur wrestling days and when he took up pro wrestling he worked as a face.
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* Badass: Was a bodyguard for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family for several years.
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* Badass: {{Badass}}: Was a bodyguard for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family for several years.
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* Badass: Was a bodyguard for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family for several years.
* BadassTeacher: Was an assistant coach to the USA team for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
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* IHaveManyNames: Great Hossein Arab, Ali Vaziri, the Iron Sheik, Shasta Mustafa, Col. Mustafa
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* IHaveManyNames: Great Hossein Arab, Ali Vaziri, the Iron Sheik, Shasta Mustafa, Col. MustafaMustafa.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: Was the Amateur Athletic Union Greco-Roman wrestling champion at 180.5 pounds.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: Was the Amateur Athletic Union Greco-Roman wrestling champion at 180.5 pounds.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Did this to Wrestling/HulkHogan on Website/{{Twitter}} in 2015, after the revelation of a racist tirade made by Hogan:
--> "I should have broke the jabroni Hulk Hogan fucking leg when I had the chance."
--> "I should have broke the jabroni Hulk Hogan fucking leg when I had the chance."
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* CharacterFilibuster: His promos, even by professional wrestling standards. [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny "Gene Mean"]] Okerlund would frequently have to cut him off...or try to, only to get a quick "don't interrupt!"
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* CharacterFilibuster: His promos, even by professional wrestling standards. [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny [[{{Mondegreen}} "Gene Mean"]] Okerlund would frequently have to cut him off...or try to, only to get a quick "don't interrupt!"
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* CharacterFilibuster: His promos, even by professional wrestling standards. "Mean" Gene Okerlund would frequently have to cut him off..or try to only to get a quick "don't interrupt!"
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* CharacterFilibuster: His promos, even by professional wrestling standards. "Mean" Gene [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny "Gene Mean"]] Okerlund would frequently have to cut him off..off...or try to to, only to get a quick "don't interrupt!"
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->''Insane. Completely, utterly and [[CrazyAwesome wonderfully]] insane. That's the only way we can describe the Iron Sheik, who in recent years has gone from forgotten ColdWar wrestling villain to [[FunnyForeigner the nutty Iranian grandpa]] we all wish we had.''
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->''Insane. Completely, utterly and [[CrazyAwesome wonderfully]] wonderfully insane. That's the only way we can describe the Iron Sheik, who in recent years has gone from forgotten ColdWar Cold War wrestling villain to [[FunnyForeigner the nutty Iranian grandpa]] grandpa we all wish we had.''
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* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Boy, is he ever.
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* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Boy, is he ever. Arguably downgraded to FunnyForeigner in his Twitter years.
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* FinishingMove: The Camel Clutch.
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* FinishingMove: The Camel Clutch. Outside of Latin America, he's better known for the move than its innovator, Gori Guerrero. He's not even a close second in Latin America though, that honor going to Wrestling/ElSanto and successors.
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*** ...and to Chris Hardwick of [[Series/AtMidnight @midnight]]:
--->Go fuck yourself! Have a nice day.
--->Go fuck yourself! Have a nice day.
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*** Brought back recently by Rusev, another ForeignWrestlingHeel.
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* OddFriendship: With Prime Time Amy Lee, whom he served as a manager to, going so far as to pop up behind her in WEW, an all women's {{garbage wrestling}} promotion. This also made it easy for him to show up in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, another all woman not ''quite'' garbage wrestling promotion when she was its commissioner.
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* OddFriendship: With Prime Time Amy Lee, whom he served as a manager to, going so far as to pop up behind her in WEW, Women's Extreme Wrestling, an all women's female {{garbage wrestling}} promotion. This also made it easy for him to show up in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, another all woman not ''quite'' garbage wrestling promotion when she was its commissioner.
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** With BrunoSammartino IRL, the two once beat the crap out of five pro football players who made the mistake of calling the then 51-year old Sammartino a "washed up old man" and tried to push him around. Sammartino was holding his own until the Sheik, who was in the showers, heard the commotion, and the two proceeded to curbstomp the morons.
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** With BrunoSammartino Wrestling/BrunoSammartino IRL, the two once beat the crap out of five pro football players who made the mistake of calling the then 51-year old Sammartino a "washed up old man" and tried to push him around. Sammartino was holding his own until the Sheik, who was in the showers, heard the commotion, and the two proceeded to curbstomp the morons.
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* OddFriendship: With Prime Time Amy Lee, whom he served as a manager to, going so far as to pop up behind her in WEW, an all women's {{garbage wrestling}} promotion. This also made it easy for him to show up in Wrestling/{{WSU}}, another all woman not ''quite'' garbage wrestling promotion when she was its commissioner.
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* CheapHeat: As a ForeignWrestlingHeel, this came with the character for Sheikie Baby. However, he took cheap heat UpToEleven sometime in the late 90s when working an NWA show with a majority Jewish crowd. There is no footage of the insane promo he cut, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2-KqnSXso but here it is as retold by Steve Corino.]]
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* CheapHeat: As a ForeignWrestlingHeel, this came with the character for Sheikie Baby. However, he took cheap heat UpToEleven sometime in the late 90s when working an NWA Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA show with a majority Jewish crowd. There is no footage of the insane promo he cut, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2-KqnSXso but here it is as retold by Steve Corino.]]
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* CheapHeat: As a ForeignWrestlingHeel, this came with the character for Sheikie Baby. However, he took cheap heat UpToEleven sometime in the late 90s when working an indie show with a majority Jewish crowd. There is no footage of the insane promo he cut, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2-KqnSXso but here it is as recited by Steve Corino.]]
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* CheapHeat: As a ForeignWrestlingHeel, this came with the character for Sheikie Baby. However, he took cheap heat UpToEleven sometime in the late 90s when working an indie NWA show with a majority Jewish crowd. There is no footage of the insane promo he cut, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2-KqnSXso but here it is as recited retold by Steve Corino.]]
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* CheapHeat: As a ForeignWrestlingHeel, this came with the character for Sheikie Baby. However, he took cheap heat UpToEleven sometime in the late 90s when working an indie show with a majority Jewish crowd. There is no footage of the insane promo he cut, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2-KqnSXso but here it is as recited by Steve Corino.]]
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* LegionOfDoom: Part of wrestling original legion of doom alongside the Original Sheik until the group was reduced to just Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors Hawk and Animal.
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* LegionOfDoom: Part of wrestling wrestling's original legion of doom alongside the Original Sheik until the group was reduced to just Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors Hawk and Animal.
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* LegionOfDoom: Part of wrestling original legion of doom alongside the Original Sheik until the group was reduced to just Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors Hawk and Animal.
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* {{Kayfabe}}: How much he actually hates the wrestlers he's famous for running down in shoot interviews and on twitter may fall under this. While he apparently ''really'' doesn't like B. Brian Blair (for still mostly unknown reasons), other wrestlers that he's run down, when face to face with, he often blubbers, breaks down and cries and calls them "my brother." Roddy Piper and even Hulk Hogan have both implied it's an act, and say they get along with him just fine in real life.
** Sheikie Baby gave touching tributes to both Warrior and Randy Savage upon their deaths on twitter and in videos, despite years of talking trash about them.
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* SirSwearsALot: Looking at his post retirement interviews versus his promos when he was still a wrestler will cause many to you marvel at his restraint.
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* FakeNationality: Portrayed the The Great Hossein Arab in 1972 and the Iraqi Col. Mustafa in 1991.
* FanNickname: Sheikie Baby.
* FanNickname: Sheikie Baby.
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** SoLastSeason: It rarely qualifies as finishing move anymore unless a wrestler adds a particular variation to it or has some west Asian heritage or element to their gimmick.
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** With BrunoSammartino IRL, the two once beat the crap out of five pro football players who made the mistake of calling the then 51-year old Sammartino a "washed up old man" and tried to push him around. Sammartino was holding his own until the Sheik, who was in the showers, heard the commotion, and the two proceeded to curbstomp the morons.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Especially around the TurnOfTheMillennium.
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* SeriousBusiness: He was most active in TheEighties, when {{Kayfabe}} was at its strongest. One of his biggest criticisms about Wrestling/HulkHogan (and other notable {{Face}}s in the day) was that they would [[NiceCharacterMeanActor act like dicks toward the fans when not in a wrestling capacity]].
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* SeriousBusiness: He was most active in TheEighties, when {{Kayfabe}} was at its strongest. One of his biggest criticisms about Wrestling/HulkHogan (and other notable {{Face}}s in the day) was that they would [[NiceCharacterMeanActor act like dicks toward the fans when not in a wrestling capacity]]. He may well have had a point.
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* BoisterousBruiserBoisterousBruiser: The Iron Sheik was a lot meaner than most examples but nonetheless was loud, strong and always up for a contest.
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* ViewersAreMorons: This was often his attitude to the fans who booed him, insisting to "Mean" Gene that the ''intelligent'' wrestling fans agreed with whatever he was saying or doing to get boos. The exception being his Anti-America/Pro-Iran statements, where he didn't care.
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* HiddenDepths: One of Sheik's workout routines involves the use of a pair of instruments called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76BBsUMPXQ "Persian Clubs."]] (aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_club Indian Clubs or meels.) Apparently, nobody ''in the entire professional wrestling industry'' is able to pull off how to work these clubs properly ''except'' Iron Sheik himself... and Wrestling/MarkHenry.
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* HiddenDepths: One of Sheik's workout routines involves the use of a pair of instruments called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76BBsUMPXQ "Persian Clubs."]] (aka http://en.[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_club Indian Clubs or meels.meels]].) Apparently, nobody ''in the entire professional wrestling industry'' is able to pull off how to work these clubs properly ''except'' Iron Sheik himself... and Wrestling/MarkHenry.
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* HiddenDepths: One of Sheik's workout routines involves the use of a pair of instruments called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76BBsUMPXQ "Persian Clubs."]] Apparently, nobody ''in the entire professional wrestling industry'' is able to pull off how to work these clubs properly ''except'' Iron Sheik himself... and Wrestling/MarkHenry.
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* HiddenDepths: One of Sheik's workout routines involves the use of a pair of instruments called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76BBsUMPXQ "Persian Clubs."]] (aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_club Indian Clubs or meels.) Apparently, nobody ''in the entire professional wrestling industry'' is able to pull off how to work these clubs properly ''except'' Iron Sheik himself... and Wrestling/MarkHenry.
