Jim Cornette Reviews A&E's Iron Sheik Biography 

Wow, that's pretty cool. Did your family intend to go to the LA Coliseum before the switch? Did you notice Lou Ferrigno and the Fonz?

​@@quentinkaasa47 If I remember correctly at the end of WM6 the tickets for WM7 went on sale and we got them that night.

My dad owned Mobil station off River and Higgins in Rosemont for decades. Just blocks from the Horizon and the wrestlers would always stop at his station for cigs, Pop, chips, etc. He said Shieky Baby was always very friendly and respectful

@@quentinkaasa47 Only problem is if you were there live then ya missed the legendary commentary between Gorilla and Bobby!

​@@dansokulski4039 he g** asf talking about sheiky baby

Can’t do that today. Everyone would cry and be offended

​@@eriksmith7829 Can't do it today because you'd have to probably find a Chinese wrestler. Think it could still work but if that guy lost you'd have some backlash from the Chinese market (however large or small that'd be). Imagine... "China #1!..." That'd be interesting at least.

​@theatagamer90 they made John Cena apologize for calling Taiwan a country. Further proof Cena represents everything that sucks about WWE today.

FACK HO KOGAN!

Sheiky baby was the first "hawk tuah" girl.

Saw thei Iron Sheik in Memphis back in the 80's

@@tonybob47 must've been a great experience.

I agree.

100% legit! The sheik was the ultimate heel.

Sorakichi Matsuda and The Terrible Turk would have had words with you, if they were still alive.

Sheik: "I don't know how I was in the car with him" lmao

Don't forget Brother Bruce.

@@quentinkaasa47 Eh, Bruce is good, but he's an often unreliable narrator, especially because of his sycophanting toward Vince. The good thing about Jim and Brian is that they swear no allegiances.

@@karma_coinMy comment was tongue in cheek.

@@quentinkaasa47 oh, well, derp on me

Same.

Man that visual should've been the thumbnail 😂😂😂 Long live Sheiky Baby!

Who says Verne Gagne was behind the times?

@@Rjensen2 I remember Shawn saying in his autobiography that when he and Jannetty pitched Verne the idea of being the Rockers he asked them if the fans would confuse the name for rocking chairs. For context, this was the late 80s.

@@terminallumbago6465 So, what?

@@Rjensen2 I was referring to Verne being behind the times

It was considered "peace for our times"

Getting busted on the road together in the cover of night on a lonely interstate Highway is one thing but Jesus Christ how tf did Crockett not lose his shit over these two enjoying the lakers Celtics series together smh😅 wtf

@@tobiasfarragut292 I always wondered that too....Skip Caray was calling the game, and he even said something like "uh, aren't those guys enemies?" and laughed... I assume he was smart to the business as they say. Im guessing if it was anyone other than Crockett's 2 biggest stars they would have been in deep shit. Funny enough, this was also when Dusty was always showing up to do promos on the tv show wearing a Celtics jacket, because I remember Flair cutting one of his wild promos yelling about that jacket and wanting to destroy it 😂

@@samspurgeon4222 he said “If you wear that CELTIC GREEN JACKET!!…me and Tully are gonna stuff it down yer throat!!” Something like that

Wow flair and dusty at a Celtics game? Maybe that happend during one of flair’s short stints as a baby face?

So true, he really created an aurora of hate and knew what to say.

Ayatollah Corny

Totally Agree

They'll just shit on him now. Plus he supported that idiot Canadian wannabe pay them to let me wrestle Hannibal. Billy Graham sux.

Poor Superstar is on his death bed.

I’d love one on Snuka, Andre, and Vader if they haven’t already been done.

I would love a terry funk one or Jim Duggan

People don't mind they business his narcotic abuse doesn't involve them at all lmaoo

They said it in the documentary that he let it all out during the HOF speech. So really what from our POV was an old crazy guy babbling was really an old guy after years of hardships and after a whole life of not being the guy who needs to jump into every conversation, finally having a release, which probably was something he legit needed as a human being. Really this documentary reveals so much about many things including how Sheik pretty much became a joke as an old man when really he was legit, a solid man and anything but a joke.

@@PiCheZvaraI don’t think his HOF speech was considered a joke. If anything, most guys would’ve gotten gently escorted off-stage if they had gone on forever the way Sheiky did. Instead, they more or less allowed him to do his thing, which was a show of respect.

Cried when they told the story of his daughter.

Umm they did Bret/Mick/Shawn/Booker/Austin/Mysterio/Edge/DX/Angle/Goldberg/Taker/Charlotte/Lawler/Kane/Jake/Shiek...16 out of 29..17 if you count the NWO...Most of them ARE alive

He meant someone from sheiks era. So people like Sheik, Dusty, lawler. If its a documentary on Charlotte flair of course shes alive. There’s significantly less as old as the Sheik. (Due to age and how hard wrestlers can be on there health)

@@Getwright- Not the way I read it but if thats the way you read it..ok

The street fight with Pat Patterson was insane.

yeah they went over that part waaaaaaay too quickly

I Heard About That Would've Been Priceless

Or when him,New Jack and Honky Tonk Man were in a motel and moon’d the camera

I think Dusty’s was my favorite imo.

They got to it in the last 10 minutes or so. It happened about 20 years ago now, so it felt weird with them bringing it up so late, before the program wrapped up. They really should have cut out some of the stuff in the middle, about Sheik dropping the title to Hogan. It was a pivotal moment in history for sure, but it wasn't nearly as big of a deal as what Hogan did afterwards with Piper.

Reminds me of something Al Bundy would have said about Wanker County. I know I've heard the joke before on some popular thing

I agree someone in the comments said they stopped watching the a&e docs cus they put in the bare minimum but I disagree they have to fit the story in a 2 hour show with commercials so they have to keep it moving I thought they did a good job with it I wasn't expecting them to show him acting crazy on Howard stern and shoot interviews that we can watch on RU-vid

I can't believe there are people that actually believe this. Verne's ego was such that he couldn't admit that Hogan's leaving had an effect on the AWA.

Was because their stable was meant to be military. Sgt slaughter , col masts Fa and General Adnan.

Oh yeah. That was the bloodiest WrestleMania match up to that point. Not sure if Flair/Savage surpassed it a year later.

@@quentinkaasa47 They had another one in the summer. Hogan wore fatigues. I think it used to be on the Wrestlefest video.

Him and Duggan getting pulled over was a HUGE deal when it happened. You had local newscasts that never reported on wrestling(or making fun of it somehow) covering the story all over the US. Back then kayfabe was in full swing so it wasn’t about the drugs the big deal was that a heel from Iran and the all American babyface were traveling together and friends. That was big big news. Nowadays nobody would care because kayfabe pretty much died around 1996 after the curtain call, Vince Russo, and the attitude era killed it. Back then there was no such thing as shoot interviews and podcasts.

I don't think kayfabe was in full effect in 1987. Everyone had to know it was a work by that point.

@@johnnyargon5454 people suspected but really until the internet a couple tv specials in the late 90s and the attitude era flat out telling everyone there was always plausible deniability on the wrestlers end. The only ones that really KNEW it was a work were in the business already, related to someone in the business or one of the few smart fans out there that subscribed to the dirt sheets and/or were trying to break into the business themselves. Most intelligent people suspected but the wrestlers and their families protected the business and kayfabe with their lives because breaking it would cost them their livelihood. Dr D lost his job protecting in in the wwf, Vader was arrested in Saudi Arabia and Richard belzer retired to “Che Hogan” his home in France paid for by Hulk Hogan after choking him out on tv. You have to keep in mind that wrestling as a whole was something that mostly unintelligent people really went nuts over and believed and the ones that pretty much figured it was a work still had that plausible deniability because some stuff really looked legit. I don’t know if you were alive in 87 but I was and kayfabe was still in full swing and that arrest was huge news because every newsroom or small time newspaper in the country wanted to be the first to tell everyone wrestling was “fake”.

Yeah that one old news reporter seemed really offended. I feel for sheik cause it did kind of ruin him.

At no point was wrestling comparable to the NBA or NFL lmao not in payment, not in commitment, not in skill, not in any way lol

That's a Corny Ayatollah

It would have been cool if they called him "Colonel Vaziri" or "Colonel Khosrow", since Mean Gene often introduced him with his full name.

Then Mean Gene has to step in to end his speech hahaha

Outlived Hall, Anvil, Davey Boy, New Jack, Hennig, Warrior…. Sheiky Baby is up there with Keith Richards in terms of longevity compared to substances consumed.