Iron Sheik gets excited and impersonates a camel.

LA promo, 3/31/84

[@hg4712]

This single promo is more entertaining than the entire wwe today

[@PSGamer-fm5vt]

Dude gave a better promo than 90% of people who only speak English

[@JaylonTruelove-rz8jc]

So true 👍

[@rush6055]

You d**n right brother! Those guys were apart of something great. You can't make up characters like that. The wrestling promos and wrestling itself is a joke now. Those days will never come again

[@realrecfake8966]

This proves that the Attitude era isn't the only era that can teach this generation how to cut a promo. Iron Sheik de Rrrell chompwon Not Huk Howgun!!

[@natep9997]

LMFAO

[@mthom0861]

the 80's > attitude era. that attitude era had a handful of iconics but midcarders were all time greats in the 80's.

[@allwightallwong5045]

PJM I agree. Stone Cold had the biggest ovations ever besides Hulk Hogan and Sting. I saw them all live. When Austin came out and his music started playing I literally thought the roof was going to tear off!!! Hulk as well back in the rock and wrestling era fucking insane

[@YurManDavid]

PJM no, there’s actually a ton of AE legends

[@James-xx4kb]

All wight all wong I’m a big Sting fan but his ovations were NOT even close to Hogan’s or Steve Austin’s

[@stevedrums1675]

Between Tiger Chung Lee somehow getting booted out fo the interview, Blassie's nodding and "Bali, bali!", Sheik being Sheik and Gene almost cracking up, this has to be one of the funniest promos ever.

[@dante666jt]

What a strange concoction of personalities in one frame! I think it might be the drugs

[@Grandmastergav86]

This is why cocaine and steroids should be mandatory in wrestling

[@mackermaldrill2656]

...and why not!

[@The_Bad_Guy.]

Haha yep. There's a reason why iron sheik, Ric flair, macho Man, roddy Piper and guys like that were the best promo cutters ever.

[@aodhablackheart]

@@The_Bad_Guy. Yeah it's because they were awesome at promos. smh

[@The_Bad_Guy.]

@@aodhablackheart yeah and they were coked out of their minds. Cocaines a hell of a drug. You obviously don't know this.

[@aodhablackheart]

@@The_Bad_Guy. Well not personally I don't, no :D But I think they deserve credit for being awesome at promos as well, instead of cunts always giving it "lol coke and steroids". Like that makes you a great promo man.

[@ccie12933]

Love Blassie tugging on Tiger Chung Lee's shirt until Lee gets the idea that he needs to leave.

[@DixiePokerAce]

When the Ayatollah Blassie tells you to get lost, you beat it.

[@mettinmehmed]

Freddie Blassy was a class act, when Sheiky was cutting that promo Blassy was saying "Bally Bally" in the back! That made me LMAO Proper

[@mettinmehmed]

F Khan lol

[@TheVicious5150]

Mettin Mehmed blassie was a savage lol

[@zumaanandrade3486]

What does bally bally mean?

[@alexandersilady4751]

@@zumaanandrade3486 He was actually saying "Helly Belly", which was because Blassie thought it was really funny that Sheiky called Hillbilly Jim "Helly Belly Jim" in his Iranian accent so he made it into a chant during Sheik's promos.

[@ghw1985]

Iron shiek for real was a UNIT , he put many ppl to shame, promo and in the ring and as a legit tough guy

[@fkhan577]

"I PROMISE ALL DA IRANIAN PEOPLE ALL DA AHRAB PEOPLE ALL THE LATIN-AMERICAN" Sheik for president 2020

[@keithpasculli7465]

And all Italian people my paisons and all Jewish people!!

[@thisguyrighthere3]

@@keithpasculli7465 i dont think hes down with the jewish people tho

[@keithpasculli7465]

@@thisguyrighthere3 But he always referred to Mean Gene as Gene Mean and called him an intelligent Jew businessman

[@spanishrock]

"Wet back mil mascaras" 😆 damn blassie

[@jasonsackett8171]

I thought I was the only one who caught that!!

[@JerichoBrand]

Olympic Tautatorium !!! Hahahaha sheik is a legend , real shooter

[@michaelrubin4832]

Blassie said in his book he hated mascaras

[@bruinjer]

The Olympic Auditorium was a great place for wrestling, boxing and punk rock shows. It was grungy, humid, infested with rats..... it was awesome!! Freddie was a legend (in that building).

[@not_ian5543]

Don’t mind me, just watching this promo on repeat

[@carbonation28]

he made the best promos because he honestly believes everything he says. Iron sheik was the best

[@bassshred37]

definately

[@keithpasculli7465]

EXACTLY!!!!!

[@michaelallanrubin2376]

He does believe it you are wrong

[@dogukantopal4809]

@@michaelallanrubin2376 he does for the camera mostly you can find footage of him being and normal old man, grandpa

[@michaelallanrubin2376]

Now he is an old man but he was very nuts read comments in floleys book about it

[@binko969]

Classy Freddie Blassie was the best. Nothing better than when he would yell, Bali! Bali!

[@lawrenceashley3439]

If I'm not mistaken, "Bali Bali" is classical Persian for pencil neck geek!

[@juliecorona9744]

❤️at 0:45 He said “68 MEXICO CITY!!🇲🇽 🇲🇽👏🏼💪🏼💪🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 you are the best Iron Sheik!! 😃Thank you for all the childhood memories you gave us in 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@shaolin1derpalm]

The more I watch of the pre-wrestlemania ww F the more I feel that Sheikh is one of the best promos in the business of all time.

[@scottdavidson7001]

I can't believe he called him a " wet back."...wow

[@hooksncrosses3419]

I know. How times have changed. 😂

[@defaultusername123]

Scott Davidson anything to sell tickets back then

[@sarvet5]

Back when everyone didn’t get offended

[@foamactionnetwork2743]

@@sarvet5 People got offended, but nothing would happen to those who said it

[@sarvet5]

FoamActionNetwork no people could actually joke around back then and not get offended.Not like the sensitive crybabies of today’s world

[@thomaskrisa9132]

What a character, still going strong in a wheelchair

[@jimmieperry3418]

"DON'T INTERRUPT ME!!!!!!"

[@JohnMoog-ug6bk]

RIP Sheikh, 1 of the greatest heels ever

[@steveeisenhowereisenhower7130]

the greatest days of wrasslin. the sheik best promo guy of all times

[@blake7871]

Watch with the closed captioning on. Tears from laughter!

[@toddhodgson]

Good call. It thinks he says "Dothraki" at one point.

[@linjean]

Truly hilarious 😂😂😂

[@Acuonda1]

OMG, thanks for the suggestion I never laughed and cried so hard before that.

[@Limoni1]

Best of all time, always looked forward to watching The Iron Sheik, he was the king on the mic, love when he called Mean Gene, Gene Mean

[@boblopez5000]

I remember seeing a promo where Blassie said Mil Mascaras wore the mask because he had scars all over his face from crawling under barbed wire fences to get across the border. Crazy shit they used to say in wrestling promos.

[@raohdensetsu]

Bob Lopez jajajaja

[@defaultusername123]

Bob Lopez cash is king lol.

[@elvecinodeltio5960]

Lmao is this shit even true?

[@JosuhaoMiranda]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@feelingsogood6073]

They used to rub refried bean tacos in Mexican American wrestlers faces in sw championship wrestling. Growing up as a Chicano I thought that was disrespectful and a waste of delicious food.

[@hanks72]

I love the Sheik!!!! A true living legend.

[@capncarter028]

Mean Gene has to almost kill himself to keep from laughing everytime the Sheik has to cut a promo with him

[@defaultusername123]

John-Michael Carter 1:47 he was about to laugh

[@cjaquilino]

The camera operator had to zoom in and cut Gene outta the shot v

[@seanthebaptist6757]

Gene Mean

[@keithpasculli7465]

He would be visibly trying not to laugh when Sheik would refer to him as intelligent American Jew like yourself but Mean Gene always have Sheik his due respect

[@rossbittner6831]

True! There are videos of Promo outtakes where Mean Gene loses it with the Iron Sheik

[@tonymarts427]

Did you see the look on mean Gene's face when the Sheik ended the interview with those noises and the things he did with his lips? Classic...

[@neilsmith9066]

Rip To an Absolute Legend!

[@bruinjer]

Freddie was the king of Los Angeles... he was a legend here in the 60s, and 70s

[@roaming740]

Might be his best promo ever

[@xtraspecialmango]

Sheiky Baby is coked out of his mind! :)

[@mackermaldrill2656]

...and loving it!

[@Anubisxian]

A to the Z bubba!

[@keithpasculli7465]

He already get excited!!!!!!!

[@FedorMachida]

"Wetback" lololol I haven't heard that term in a long time.

[@DrewKane]

GENE MEAN THE MEAN SHEIK KNOW ALL INTELLIGENT AMERICAN FAN FOR THE INTELLIGENT ITALIAN, IRANIAN, INTELLIGENT JEW ALL KNOW IRON SHEIK IS CALIFORNIA BEST WRESTLER FOREVER.

[@brianjansen3103]

Reminds me of the classic strongman from the circus

[@rayhanes1347]

The thumbnail alone is legendary 😄😄 I like how the guys hand is on his shoulder trying to calm him down

[@c76046]

hahahaha he said Ayahtollah Blassie.. he's f*cking hilarious but making it looks so serious.. Rip Blassie..

[@keithpasculli7465]

Bali Bali!!!!

[@brixtonmystery]

DAY BEFORE I WAS BORN!!! lol. I'm honored that this promo, somehow, by universe's cosmic force, engineered by Sheik of course, helped me see life. Thank you Sheik

[@rawsupershow123]

ph1484 i'm born on the same day lol

[@allwightallwong5045]

Was born 11 days before this promo aired

[@azendantforces1897]

This promo make your mother into the labor!!! Thank this man for making you safely into this world 🌍

[@strooomon]

Genius abounds. Absolutely brilliant.

[@TurboLemon]

Blassie going with an ayatollah gimmick is still one of the most bizarre character arcs I can remember.

[@Brokenkingpins]

This is the best Blassie promo ever.

[@bird2084]

R.I.P Iron Sheik 💔

[@zodiac6968]

Pencil Neck Geek!

[@karitakon]

One of the greatest heels ever

[@Maestoso28]

genius promo.

[@joemarchand8313]

Blassie basically telling Tiger Chung Lee to get the He!! out of here.

[@vintagemxer9165]

Okerlund - wait a minute wait a minute Blassy - BE QUIET!

[@behradmotahari1245]

the iron sheik speaks persian 🇮🇷❤️ 1:16

[@arthuridis]

I wish it was 1984 again. This was so good.

[@20FreeWill]

It's amazing the only thing I remember about him is his pointy shoes, to a 6-7 year old his craziness seemed perfectly normal lol

[@stefanosprokopis6974]

HE spoke 400 hundred words I understood only 4.

[@THECLARENCES]

Long live the memories of the late, great Freddie Blassie & Gene Okerlund. xoxo The Clarences

[@randquadrozzi1280]

I'm screaming but I'm not going to get excited says the iron sheik. Ayatollah blassie was a great addition.

[@radvlad1431]

😂😂😂 sheikh was the best!

[@someorclad9738]

I can't understand a word he's saying, but damn I'm fucking pumped. Now that's an alpha right there.

[@slimjimm8]

LOOK AT ALL DA MEDALS!!

[@jmata4237]

Damn! Miss those days, love skeikee baby, always great promos

[@guaromiami]

I bet there wasn't a single theater nerd backstage trying to hand Iron Sheik a script to memorize for this promo.

[@troy9972]

R.I.P Iron Sheikh

[@clone12tmx]

0:34 The reporter's face. "I can't fucking believe this guy right now.."

[@goochpyro]

I went to that show at the Olympic and it was the best night of wrestling ever. People lost their minds that night

[@Martillo81015]

Legendary promo and what made sheik so great was that he wasn’t acting and this was he real accent and bad English

[@blacklung5370]

Sheiky baby 🤣❤

[@jasonlib9209]

at the Los Angeles Olympic Tototorium

[@mja6305]

I see Sheikh's promos and when he talks Persian I feel proud being an Iranian, but then I look at my country in due time and get depressed

[@davekn74]

I haven't seen Iron shiek get this fired up besides when he wanted to suplex, break his back, put him in the camel clutch, and make him humble to beetlejuice on the howard stern show

[@bws205]

that was the funniest howard stern episode by far....i was dying

[@eslamdaineh6456]

One of the best promos in history

[@amax2098]

Mean Gene rocking the comb over.

[@Anubisxian]

RIP the Gene Mean! World Class!

[@NewportBox100s]

This guy was such a bad ass!

[@NightWarriorAlive]

Blassie knows every, brick, every stone, in that Olympic Auditorium- he sure does; had a big history in that building. This was the time when WWF was invading the California territory.

[@WhatAboutThemApples]

The California Territory(both the LA and San Fran ones) folded in the early 80s infact when they did the WWF already expanded there I think by 1982(AWA took over San Fran, WWF Southern Cali)

[@adrianhproductions9842]

The sheik was awesome

[@catjudo1]

I don't know which is better... Freddie Blassie going off on "pencil neck geeks", the Iron Sheik ranting like a madman or Mean Gene trying to keep a straight face through it all.

[@JasonL77]

You won’t hear a promo like Blassie’s anymore. I’m sure ol’ Freddie got himself a lot of heat by using the term “wet back”. Even in the 80s, that would have pissed some people off.

[@michaelhunziker7287]

Chico Santana didn't care one bit

[@daleschroeder5582]

the iron shieks camel clutch hurts😁 told my girlfriend put that hold on me nearly broke my back she freakin loved it watching me in severe pain😁 that snapperhead

[@quinnmccully4689]

"I so excited I stand up talk!"

[@gypsymothgillis3537]

My hero

[@JBone400]

I'm already excited!

[@mikejejenich7116]

Sheiky. Baby. !!!! Lmfaoo

[@JoseGarcia-kg3pe]

Rip Sheik

[@johntoes52]

Freddie..."Hully gully, hully gully" lmao

[@SaturnStarOfDavid]

Glassy eyes. Yeah he high. Go sheik.

[@gingerriviera3654]

YES! This is awesome.

[@eddieagostini450]

Absolutely awesome!!!

[@jonyrodz]

Iron Sheik make all you Jabroni's humble!

[@TheeCoachg]

Sheik was LIT AF here. You can see it in his eyes 😂😂😂😂😂🙏🏾

[@riggins5028]

Freddie Blassy a real OG

[@EarlDogg]

Blassie started HOT!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@mattboland7063]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug. LOL.

[@WayneBacchus-yv1rw]

The GOAT!

[@jasonarment836]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[@Potalot]

nobody had hes charisma nobody was even close .. the greatest ever wrestler and promo artist of the best era, and he was iranian hahahahaha

[@zumaanandrade3486]

I,m gonnna kick Chump Hogan just like i kick a lazy camel. camel sound

[@JQLLC]

Tiger Chung Lee almost breaks character.

[@earlpipe9713]

Someone brought the high octane sporting fuel to work at the WWF this day

[@vincentdimurro8246]

Freddie Blassie calling mil mascaras a wet back holy shit you can't say that today.

[@thewkovacs316]

blassie went out of his way to make people hate him

[@tonymarts427]

Ayatollah blassie, LOL!!!

[@lajas44]

Blassi told Tiger Chung Lee to split when Sheik entered the room.

[@thewatcher8939]

1:51 - 1:53 : I want this to be my new ringtone

[@KenPSI]

No one did it better than Mean Gene Okerlund.

[@tiprat5051]

precisely.. Exactly!

[@specialk3357]

Stop urine testing wrestlers 😂 We need the circus back in town!