The Iron Sheik passed away today at 81... which to even imagine he lived to 81 is amazing considering the litany of health problems and the out-of-control party lifestyle this man lived.
He's another guy if I search old articles on this blog his name comes up often. I was a big fan of the Iron Sheik since I was a little kid watching wrestling.
He's always in those "Twitter Awards" Olympic medal awarding ones I used to write a lot.
It says on his twitter, that Sheikie, joined twitter in 2009 and posted 32.5 thousand tweets from 2009 to 2023. Wow... that's quite a few .... I will say he is probably the most prolific and beloved twitter persona of all time. I will miss him forever.
Today, in the vein of those Twitter Awards articles I used to do a lot... I would like to give the Iron Sheik the all-time most-greatest in-memoriam Gold Medal for Twitter which will remain his forever. No one will ever be better at tweeting than this man was.
Tweeting wasn't even what he was known for though. He was the most-hated heel in Wrestling for a good decade or more. He was a reviled Sheik from the Araby out to destroy the apple pie loving America people... hack patooie!
Now... All Rise for the singing of the Soviet National Anthem!
Russia NUMBER ONE!
Iran NUMBER ONE!
USA? Hack! PATAW!
He's up there now with the Classy Ayatollah the Freddie Blassie and the Nikolai. He's survived by his family and by Sgt. Slaughter.
In the words he coined in the twitter-verse whenever a celebrity he liked passed away... I would like to say...
Goodbye Iron Sheik... I will miss you and love you forever...
......Bubba.
