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 today ...

The Iron Sheik, the notorious pro-wrestling villain who warred with Hulk Hogan in the 1980s and whose gimmick capitalized on U.S. tensions with Iran, has died at 81. The Sheik’s death was announced ...

File photo: The Iron Sheik appears during 140: The Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2009. The Iron Sheik, born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, died Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at age 81. (AP ...

The Iron Sheik has died, and his longtime fans are waiting for a response from Hulk Hogan. The legendary wrestling champion's (real name Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri) death was reported on Twitter. In ...

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 ...

Hossein Khosrow Vaziri, the Iran-born wrestler known as the Iron Sheik, who channeled America’s hatred of his homeland to build a career as one of the most despised ring villains of his era, died ...

Wrestling legend Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, best known by his ring name The Iron Sheik, has passed away at the age of 81. Sheik’s personal Twitter account confirmed the news, noting that he passed ...

On American TV in the 1980s, the only Iranian who was a bigger star than Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri was Ayatollah Khomeini. They appeared on different channels: Khomeini, the cleric turned autocrat, ...

Women allegedly fainted in the aisles of movie theaters back in 1921 while watching sex symbol Rudolph Valentino in the romantic action adventure “The Sheik.” Eighty-one years after the film was ...

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 ...