![]() Since there were no tattoo parlors in Iran, he went to a brothel and paid a prostitute to ink his flesh.īut that was the extent of the exchange. He also got "90" tattooed on his right forearm, the only mark on his body except for the Islamic crescent he’d add in the United States. To achieve this, for 40 weeks in a row, he traveled an hour-and-a-half to a special mosque where he asked Allah to intercede. But he was neither curious about these diversions nor interested in sampling them himself.īy high school, he had one goal: wrestling at a competitive weight of 90 kilograms, or 200 pounds. Later, when the family relocated to Tehran, he looked through the windows of restaurants and bars and saw customers sipping beer. In his hometown of Damghan, there were no drugstores, so the elderly would occasionally relieve their ailments by smoking opium. Throughout his childhood, he was called "Khosrow," for the Persian king known as “Khosrow the Just” and “Khosrow of the Immortal Soul.” He blames the confusion on the fact that his family alternated between the Western calendar and the Solar Hijri calendar used in Iran and Afghanistan. Although his passport reads March 15, 1942, he celebrates his birthday on Sept. The Sheik isn’t exactly sure when he was born. “The drug thing was so embarrassing,” says Tanya, “especially to someone who was an extreme athlete most of his life.” He was going to quit drugs, particularly crack, a vice that gripped him as his professional wrestling career-and his funds-waned. And, as a tribute to Marissa, he made a pledge that he hoped would strengthen the family. “I lost my sister and I don’t want to lose my father.”Īpparently touched by the words, The Sheik maintained his composure. “You can’t kill him ‘cause they’ll put you in prison,” Tanya whispered. So the entire clan surrounded the former bodyguard for the Shah of Iran, boxing him in near the wall, and refused to allow him to carry out his plan. Despite his recent surgery, The Sheik was strong and skilled enough to barrel through a court officer or two, spit out the blade and draw some blood. ![]() In court, The Sheik’s Minnesota-born wife, Caryl, warned the rest of the family about her husband’s homicidal intentions. “She’s such a good girl,” Reynolds would tell police, “but she wouldn’t calm down.” When everyone left, Reynolds strangled Marissa, then pulled the blanket up to her chin, like she was asleep. They argued slightly, but not to the degree that any of their guests were alarmed. He also told his daughters that he’d always be there to protect them.īut in May 2003, as The Sheik recovered from knee replacement surgery, Marissa was partying in the apartment she shared with Reynolds. ![]() “We do Greco-Roman, freestyle,” he says of the wrestling practiced in the family’s living room. As their father, a one-time World Wrestling Federation (currently World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE) champion, stood over them, the sisters would lock up, push and pull on one another and go for single- and double-leg takedowns, the way The Sheik did when he trained in his native Iran.
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