Top 10 Wrestlers who were in the Olympics

#4 The Iron Sheik

The Iron Shiek is a wrestling legend and a Twitter legend...

Before going off on tangents, abusing people, and threatening to make them humble - you know, being entertaining, The Iron Sheik was a gifted amateur wrestler, who competed to be on Iran’s Greco - Roman wrestling team for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. After moving to the United States, he also became the assistant coach to the United States team, accompanying them to the Summer Olympics in 1972.

In the same year, Verne Gagne invited Sheik to try his hand in professional wrestling, and a decade later, The Iron Sheik became one of the biggest - and most hated villains in professional wrestling history! Sheik also won the prestigious WWE Championship, before dropping the title to Hulk Hogan, and was embroiled in a long feud with The Hulkster, resulting in Hogan becoming the biggest babyface of the 80’s, and one of the biggest baby faces in wrestling history.

Now, of course, Sheik is a loving, affable character, who extends his invitation to teach today’s wrestlers some humility.