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Professional Wrestler. Amateur Wrestler. Born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri. The Iron Sheik rose to fame in the 1980's as one of the greatest heels in the wrestling world. He captured the WWF World Heavyweight Championship in December of 1983, ending Bob Backlund's 5 year long reign. The Sheik would lose the title to Terry Bollea, AKA Hulk Hogan at the MSG on January 23, 1984. In 2005, The Iron Sheik was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. He became a popular figure in the 2000's for his infamous rants & tweets on various topics and subjects.

Vaziri was a Shia Muslim and a former soldier in the Imperial Iranian Army. He married American Caryl Peterson on March 21, 1976; the best man at the wedding was "Mean" Gene Okerlund (whom the Sheik often referred to as "Gene Mean" in his broken English). His eldest daughter Marissa Jeanne Vaziri was murdered by her boyfriend Charles Warren Reynolds after an altercation in May 2003 at the age of 26. Reynolds was taken into custody and later convicted of the crime. Reynolds himself died in prison on May 31, 2016. Vaziri had two other daughters as well as five grandchildren.

Despite promising to repair his family, Vaziri was unable to successfully quit drugs following Marissa's death. Vaziri was reported to have been extremely angered after his daughter's death to the point where he considered retaliation against her killer.[49] In 2005, the family believed Vaziri was a danger to himself and others and forced him to enter rehabilitation; an employee allegedly snuck in cocaine for him. In 2007, Peterson walked out on Vaziri after several failed attempts to make him quit drugs. She returned two years later on the condition that Vaziri sever ties with a friend who helped him acquire them. In 2013, Vaziri said he had been off cocaine for four years.

In August 2013, Iron Sheik's managers Page and Jian Magen crowdsourced $40,441 to write, direct and produce a documentary, Iranian Legend: The Iron Sheik Story Originally, the documentary was scheduled for a 2008 release under the title Iron Sheik: From A to Z.Sheik's documentary was released in 2014 under the title The Sheik. On November 6, Vaziri challenged the then-Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, to an arm wrestling match at his office.

Starting in the late 2000s, Vaziri became known for his Twitter account, which features violent, profanity-ridden Tweets denouncing various pop culture events. He did not write the Tweets himself; his managers, Jian and Page Magen, handled the account.

Vaziri died at home in Fayetteville, Georgia, on June 7, 2023. The Iron Sheik’s cause of death was cardiac arrest with congestive heart failure and hypertension as contributing factors.

The Iron Sheik’s gravesite is in Peachtree City, Georgia at Westminster Memorial Gardens.