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Busted Open

RIP Iron Sheik

Busted Open

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Aew, Bully Ray, Sports News, Ring Of Honor, Nxt, News, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, Dave Lagreca, Sports, Professional Wrestling, Leisure, Wwe, Njpw, Wrestling

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "Busted Open," host Tommy Dreamer reacts to the breaking news of The Iron Sheik passing away. Plus, the Magen twins join to reflect on the life of The Iron Sheik.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Tommy Dreamer, and you're listening to Busted Open.

0:03.0

And on today's episode, unfortunately, we have to break the news.

0:07.2

It literally came down live as we're on the air of the passing of my friend, the Iron

0:12.3

Sheik, former WWF World Champion, the man that ended the iconic reign of Bob Backlin.

0:20.5

But you know, bigger story than this that he was just this iconic man in the world of

0:25.8

professional wrestling that we lost today and kind of had a react to all of it.

0:31.0

I hope you all can share a funny thought, a funny message, or continue to carry on his

0:38.8

career, his life and his legacy of the Iron Sheik.

0:42.6

That's today's episode of Busted Open.

0:46.2

Unfortunately, we have some breaking news.

0:48.7

The Iron Sheik has passed away.

0:51.6

Sheik was my friend.

0:53.2

I'm literally just getting this as a commercial break.

0:56.3

It's, it sucks.

0:59.0

I'm kind of, I'm very sad, but like I said, I just got this news and now we got to come

1:06.5

on the air and talk about it.

1:07.7

Man, Sheik, it's, they posted a beautiful thing about his life on his Twitter man.

1:16.8

Like I said, when we were talking earlier, I just watched Sheik win the world title.

1:22.0

And now, you know, I was there alive as a kid and that was 1983.

1:29.4

It's one of his greatest accomplishments.

1:32.0

Sheik was a character besides being a great, amazing, iconic wrestler.

1:37.8

He then became this icon in the world after, you know, his time in WWE.

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