{"id":12808,"date":"2023-06-08T22:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2023-06-08T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:35:10","slug":"the-iron-sheik-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/08\/the-iron-sheik-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Sheik Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/06\/iron-sheik-dead-wrestling-star-hossein-khosrow-ali-vaziri-was-81-1235410489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Iron Sheik Dies: Wrestling Star Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri Was 81<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/greg-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greg Evans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Iron Sheik &quot;Dis Vennesday, VHATEVER!!&quot;\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1p2nfP39xik?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The man born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri but known to millions of pre wrestling fans as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-iron-sheik\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Iron Sheik<\/a>\u00a0has died. He was 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His death was announced on his&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_ironsheik\/status\/1666462933604265990\" target=\"_blank\">official Twitter page<\/a>. \u201cIt is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of The Iron Sheik,\u201d the announcement reads, \u201cbut we also take solace unknowing that he departed this world peacefully, leaving behind a legacy that will endure for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cause of death was not disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/06\/iron-sheik-dead-wrestling-star-hossein-khosrow-ali-vaziri-was-81-1235410489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline The Iron Sheik Dies: Wrestling Star Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri Was 81 By\u00a0Greg Evans The man born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri but known to millions of pre wrestling fans as\u00a0The Iron Sheik\u00a0has died. He was 81. His death was announced on his&nbsp;official Twitter page. \u201cIt is with great sadness that we share the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}