He trained hard, wrestlers telling stories of him doing squats while his peers were just standing around. Being such an adept grappler aided Vaziri in going from Greco-Roman wrestling to the world of spandex and steel chairs. While Flair had plenty of work to do in terms of the physical side of the business, Vaziri's amateur background had him much further ahead in the process. When he and with me in the training, he nothing special. Vaziri says of The Nature Boy, "God bless him. Vaziri wasn't impressed with the early work of a man who would later become a Hall of Famer. Verne Gagne soon invited him to help train out potential pros. In the '70s, he served as an assistant coach for the U.S. The wrestling mat offered a kind transition. Fearful of what might happen to him, Vaziri soon left for the United States. Takhti was too strong, too popular to end his life like that. The government called it a suicide, but Vaziri didn't believe that story. No wrestler was more famous and beloved in Iran than Gholamreza Takhti. The Sheik shows Vaziri at this stage in his life through grainy footage where one sees him take men down like a gator lurking in the water. His American-dream tale is an extraordinary one.īefore he began to wear his trademark curled mustache and don a keffiyeh on his way to the ring, The Iron Sheik was a young man wrestling in Tehran, Iran. He was a handsome, sleek, hard-bodied athlete and one of the best at the Greco-Roman game. He was once a bodyguard for the Shah in Iran, won the WWE title and helped launch pro wrestling's boom period. Vaziri's life, though, has been much fuller than most. It show people that you need to live in the good and the bad to have full life." Of his movie, he says, " It show everything in my life. Rather than make The Sheik some glossed-over retelling of his life, Vaziri wanted to inspire people with both his triumphs and his stumbles. This way my job to teach them how to become the real Iron Sheik class. Nobody know how I become most hated man on the TV and how I become the legend of the Earth. Most people only know Iron Sheik the wrestler. I am Olympic coach, world class wrestler, have to leave my home country of Iran to come to the America to live America dream. On what inspired him to play the subject of this documentary, he said: But it's The Iron Sheik who is the heart of the film, a funny, blunt man taking us back to his birthplace. It's a story that took eight years to shape into movie form. Family friends Jian and Page Magen, along with director Igal Hecht, helped Vaziri do that shaping.
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