WE loved to hate him

Scandar Acbar?

Also went by Seldom Bin Laid & was a master of the two-handed, nut twist.

He used to work out in the same gym I did in the '80's here in Dallas.

When wrasslin in Iowa he staid at my friends dads house. My friends dad was an international ping pong player from Iran.

One night my friend was driving the iron sheik and andre the giant from independence (where he lived) to cedar rapids where thier match was. The fought each other..... they also did coke the whole way.

Andre got busted tat night and taken to the CR police department. They used leg shackles as hand cuffs.

Cool story.
Now the shiek is on tour with the comedians of Howard Stern.

#4 Did he wear those pointy shoes in the gym? LOL

#5 Did your friend's dad make Andre sit in the bed of the pickup? Seriously, WTF did he sit? That guy was LARGE.

^^^ nope.But he did have a Brooklyn accent.

#7 I dunno didn't ask. I was in college and was high at the time and my friend was a manager of a godfathers pizza. I was more interested in the pizza than his story.

Later that night we went to get really grilled in the mental health institute cemetary.... it was creepy.

The graves had numbers not names, were not in symetrical order, and there is a tree missing all the bark on a huge limb where they used to hang people. The graves were also very shallow. We kept falling through onto wood slabs.

The sheik story just came back to me..... the cemetary part has been with me forever. They went back and stole a labotomized skull. I lost track of them after that.

Not sure if any of you guys listen to Howard Stern but he's a bit hit over there. He had his own show a few nights ago and he's on the comedy tour with some of Stern's staff. He is real cool guy and it was fun hearing his stories about the legends of wrestling.

#10 ref #6.

The short story.

DOH!!!!

Andre once passed out from drinking too many beers in the lobby of a hotel and they could not move him, so they covered him with a tarp and put a barrier around it till he came to.

Charlie

I traveled with Andre for awhile. I never saw him do cocaine but he could drink anyone under the table. The Iron Sheik (Khosroh Vaseri) is a different story.

I'm the sheik of Araby,
Your love belongs to me.
at night when you're asleep,
Into your tent I'll creep.
The stars that shine above
Will light our way to love.
You rule this world with me,
I'm the sheik of Araby.

Let me tell you 'bout Ahab The Arab
The Sheik of the burning sand
He had emeralds and rubies just dripping off 'a him
And a ring on every finger of his hands

He wore a big ol' turban wrapped around his head
And a scimitar by his side
And every evening about midnight
He'd jump on his camel named Clyde...and ride

Silently through the night to the sultan's tent where he would secretly meet up with Fatima of the Seven Veils, swingingest grade "A" number one U.S. choice dancer in the Sultan's whole harem, 'cause, heh, him and her had a thing going. You know, and they'd been carrying on for some time now behind the Sultan's back and you could hear him talk to his camel as he rode out across the dunes, his voice would cut through the still night desert air and he'd say (imitate Arabian speech) which is arabic for, "stop, Clyde!" and Clyde would say, (imitate camel voice). Which is camel for, "What the heck did he say anyway?"
Well....

He brought that camel to a screeching halt
At the rear of Fatima's tent jumped off Clyde,
Snuck around the corner and into the tent he went
There he saw Fatima laying on a Zebra skin rug
Wearing rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
And a bone in her nose ho, ho.

There she was friends lying there in all her radiant beauty. Eating on a raisin, grape, apricot, pomegranate, bowl of chitterlings, two bananas, three Hershey bars, sipping on a "R C" Co-Cola listening to her transistor, watching the Grand Ole Opry on the tube reading the Mad magazine while she sung, "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor?" and Ahab walked up to her and he said, (imitate Arabian speech) which is arabic for, "Let's twist again like we did last summer, baby." (laughter) You know what I mean! Whew! She looked up at him from off the rug, give him one of the sly looks, she said, (coy, girlish laugh) "Crazy baby".
'Round and around and around and around...etc.

And that's the story 'bout Ahab the Arab
The Sheik of the Burnin' sand
Ahab the Arab
The swinging Sheik of the burnin' sand

Russian - I could be bothching the story a bit. It could have just been the sheik doing the coke.

I still remember Andre doing a weigh in on a truck scale when they noticed he had a beer in his hand. His hand was so huge you could barely see the can.

They made a cast of Andre the Giant's hands and have them on display at the State Fair of Texas in the Science Museum. Damn he had huge hands.