The Iron Sheik

[Chris]

• All-California Championship Wrestling
  • ACCW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• Century Wrestling Alliance
  • CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Class of 2016
• Georgia Championship Wrestling
  • NWA National Television Championship (1 time)
• International Association of Wrestling
  • IAW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • IAW Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Brian Costello
• International Wrestling Association
  • IWA Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
• International Wrestling Association
  • IWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• Maple Leaf Wrestling
  • NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version) (2 times)
• Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
  • NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA All-Star Wrestling
  • NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version) (1 time) – with The Texas Outlaw
  • NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship Tournament (1978) - with The Texas Outlaw
• National Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2008)
• NWA New Zealand
  • NWA New Zealand British Commonwealth Championship (1 time)
• NWA 2000
  • NWA 2000 American Heritage Championship (1 time)
• Pacific Northwest Wrestling
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bull Ramos
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him No. 134 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
  • PWI ranked him No. 96 of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with the Nikolai Volkoff in 2003
• World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment
  • WWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Nikolai Volkoff
  • WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Most Underrated Wrestler (1980)

 

[Chris]

On this day 38 years ago, the Iron Sheik became the WWF World Heavyweight Championship

 

[GARBAGE]

One of my favourite wrestling stories: WCW hired Sheik in the late 80s, and after disappointing the company with mediocre matches and not being the draw he used to, they kept him on house shows and entirely dropped an angle where he was taking Ron Simmons under his wing. They didn't use him once for an entire seven month span (not even on house shows), and...like, pretty much forgot he was under contract, so the contract rolled over and they had to pay him another year, which was a full $100,000. So they randomly booked him to lose a six minute match at the 1990 Great American Bash, and then work exclusively house shows until he left in early 91 to become Colonel Mustafa in WWF. So the story in summary goes he got $200,000 to barely do anything for two years, including spending a whole seven months away from the company.

 

[Necro]