Stories of the Legendary Iron Sheik

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Dave LaGreca and Thunder Rosa are ready to hear some more incredible stories of the one and only Iron Sheik. They are joined by WWE Hall of Famer, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Brett Azar who portrays Sheik in "Young Rock" on NBC, and Keith Elliot Greenberg who basically wrote the book on all things Iron Sheik.

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0:00.0	This is the busted open podcast. You can listen to the full show Monday through Saturday
0:07.1	from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern on serious XM fight nation channel 156.
0:13.7	Welcome to the busted open podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca. On today's episode,
0:19.4	myself and Thunder Rosa talk more about the career and life of the Iron Sheik and
0:25.2	boys we have some great guests. How about this? WWE Hall of Famer, Jake the
0:30.9	Snake Robert, also Brett Azar who plays the Iron Sheik in Young Rock. We'll join us
0:37.9	on the podcast today and historian Keith Elliott Greenberg with some stories
0:43.7	that I didn't even know about the Iron Sheik. All that right now on the Busted
0:48.7	Open podcast. Jake the Snake Robert, sir how are you and thank you for the
0:55.9	time. I'm doing absolutely fabulous fixing to hop in my monster truck and
1:02.6	drive it to Jacksonville. I just enjoy my sunny day with my wife and it can't
1:09.8	get much better. It's good to see that and and it and it brings up you know
1:14.8	one of the reasons why we brought you on this morning and that's the Iron Sheik
1:18.4	because he he traveled that road you know drug and alcohol being you know
1:24.4	losing his daughter and just hitting rock bottom and and getting and trying to
1:29.3	find life again and having that wife and that support system that kind of brought
1:34.2	him back and it was good to at least see at the end of his life that he kind of
1:38.9	found found some happiness again. That's that's so good man. I mean she
1:44.2	was what he was and definitely a character beyond all characters you know he
1:50.2	was something else. I know I've been thinking about him quite a bit since since
1:54.5	his passing and he reminded me of a story I've got got for you with him. We were
2:00.7	driving this is back in 1975. Whoa. Yeah and he was new to wrestling and he was
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