Bret Hart’s longtime connection with the late Iron Sheik was first made in the early 1970s when an Iranian amateur wrestler — real name Hossein Khosrow Ali…
“I always had that special relationship with him. He was a character.”
In 1983, the Iron Sheik won the WWF heavyweight title from Bob Backlund before dropping the belt to Hulk Hogan a few weeks later. He also won the promotion’s tag team championship in 1985 with Nikolai Volkoff at the first WrestleMania. “Like cartoon wrestling, it was so easy. There were good guys, bad guys and they were the total bad guys. It didn’t matter what happened.”
“He would turn out these guys because he could pick their best qualities and show them what to do if they wanted to be professional wrestlers,” Hart said. “He always tried to toughen them up and show them what they needed to know the ring.”“He was actually a very pro-American guy in real life,” he said. “If you knew him, you knew what a good man he was. He had his good qualities. He was a real friend to the end and he was always a friend to me.
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