Sankramentro...you listen when I say English! Tausand Tausand! I hated him as a kid but I watch this now and laugh my ass off. He was awesome. Savage is my favorite at promos but The Sheik is next for sure.
@@saiyaniam No way we understood it at 10 russia vs usa thing middle east issues nothing new come on you had TO be intuned back then no cell no ipad computers etc maybe it was cause i grew up in a big city i was intuned starting at 9 you dont remember above issues thats what made it better
The best part is that Vince pays all these “professional” writers to write for today’s “sports entertainers” and they still aren’t 1/100th as good as Sheiky baby spitballing a classic interview from the top of his head.
Epic Memer I agree. Bryan Danielson has shown what a great promo he can be without a script. Heck even Roman Reigns telling us he had leukemia was genuine and he can speak really well when he doesn’t have to remember lines that the writers gave him.
Agreed they should give them liberties again, honestly , they’re trying to sell to kids , but kids aren’t entertained in wrestling like before. The people who are still into it are the older generations who remember the glory days. These kids never seen greatness in the squared circle they don’t know how to appreciate it.
The greatest of his promos. Gene yelling pick up the cotton and Glenn Frey is playing at the same in the background while the Sheik is rambling. RIP Legend 🐫
Akuma4u totally agreed WWE is dying not because of ufc and boxing But because it lacks originality Good characters Good stories Good matches Good wrestling Is all you need
I forgot about "Helly Belly Jim" 😃 And it caught me off guard again and made me laugh out loud and choke on a Jaffa cake. That's the Sheik's legacy right there.
I doubt any of them are allowed to say anything like this on air any more. Vince McMahon would erase them from existence if they said half the stuff the old school wrestlers did.
anthologyofinterest1 - Oh they did! He was super popular. Him and Nikolai Volkoff were the top team for a while. The routine they did at the beginning of the match with Nikolai singing the Russian anthem and Sheik telling everyone to shut up and “Iran number one, USA hah-tooy!!” And would spit was genius
I'm so glad these Sheik promos have been recommended to me. I was a WWF but never really paid much attention to him. He's the funniest thing I've seen in years. Comedic brilliance.
I was thinking the exact same thing. This promo is pure classics 80s to begin with but having that classic track at the end it just the icing on the cake for 80s fans.
He was the best, riling up the US fans with his anti-American rants. And calling him Gene Mean. So good. And Gene was his best man at his wedding, they were good friends. Makes you look at his performance at a whole other level.
The Iron Sheik would have made those mountain men from deliverance humble....and he would have broken their backs and put them in the camel clutch...thereby making them broke back mountain men from then on
God, I love this guy. Every sentence he spoke in this promo was wonderful. Sheik, you helped make the WWF awesome in the 80s. Dude, the music at the end haaahhhaha
To all the young people out here you listen to this over and over again. The Iron Sheik was the original Rock on the mic! This man was pure gold! "YOU ARE ABSOLUTE RIGHT GENE MEAN!" Who can say "pick up the cotton" in 2021? That's right, not many!
The best part is he came to America not knowing much if any English and ended up living the American dream and busted his ass, he had drug issues for sure, but he was always a hard worker. What happened to his daughter and how he took it was heartbreaking though. The respect the rock showed him when jabroni was officially made a word in the dictionary and made sure sheik was credited for the word.
Growing up we all hated the Sheik. As an so-called Adult I absolutely love what the Sheik did in front of the mic and in the ring. The Gene Mean the great American Jew, The HellyBelly Jim, picking up the cotton, Camera Man Zoom.
BAHAHAHA Gene sells the “pick up the cotton”!! Lolololol
God how timew have changed. I agree with change. But this is sooo more entertaining 😆😆
Not racist cuz he's talking bout a white guy.
I don't think there's a better promo than this...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@mumblety96 there are so many good ones check out the one with Steve corino and how describes shiek s promo on jewish people it's beyond gold
"YOU ABSOLUTE RIGHT GENE MEAN!"
Great comment + 450K crack party = Absolute gold
@mike bond lmao you right!!!
Mean gean was best man at sheiks wedding
*Gin Mint
Sankramentro...you listen when I say English! Tausand Tausand! I hated him as a kid but I watch this now and laugh my ass off. He was awesome. Savage is my favorite at promos but The Sheik is next for sure.
It's "Helly Belly Jim" for me.🤣 R.I.P. Iron Sheik🕊
There was nobody that could do it better. Had the energy, the attitude, and the skill to back it up in the ring. RIP Iron Sheik
Gene Mean lol RIP Sheiky baby
HellyBelly Jeem could do it better..
@@matthewfreeman33 Gin Min!!!
Ernie Ladd cut some good promos too! Especially the ones on Dusty(Dirty) Rhodes, lol! Shieky Baby rocks! RIP to them all!
As a kid I used to think he was irritating. As an adult, I find him hilariously entertaining
Was going to make this same comment
Definitely
As a kid alot of what he was saying would go over your head, as an adult you can understand all the interesting quirks
@@saiyaniam No way we understood it at 10 russia vs usa thing middle east issues nothing new come on you had TO be intuned back then no cell no ipad computers etc maybe it was cause i grew up in a big city i was intuned starting at 9 you dont remember above issues thats what made it better
@@moesyzslak2939 Nothing to do with politics. It's his personality, his use of language. Aren't you great for understanding global politics at 9 lol
The best part is that Vince pays all these “professional” writers to write for today’s “sports entertainers” and they still aren’t 1/100th as good as Sheiky baby spitballing a classic interview from the top of his head.
At least a few of the guys on the roster now could probably cut a decent promo if it weren't for scripts.
Epic Memer I agree. Bryan Danielson has shown what a great promo he can be without a script. Heck even Roman Reigns telling us he had leukemia was genuine and he can speak really well when he doesn’t have to remember lines that the writers gave him.
Agreed they should give them liberties again, honestly , they’re trying to sell to kids , but kids aren’t entertained in wrestling like before. The people who are still into it are the older generations who remember the glory days. These kids never seen greatness in the squared circle they don’t know how to appreciate it.
You know that's right baby !
@David Butler it's been something I've heard him called for decades. Nothing gay about it brother.
He’s an incredible promo despite how rocky his English is. Dude just understood the business.
Man knew how to make $$…
He played the English language like a musician.
as a kid you hated him. as an adult you realized what a damned genius he was
his twitter was gold
@@neotheone7923 yeah it wasn't run by him though an agent typed all that stuff
I loved this guys character when I was a kid
I never hated The Iron Sheik. You don’t have the many fights I got into with other Kids because of that fact.
@@nsxdarin its still real to me damn it
I can't believe their isn't a cable network that puts the old wrestling shows on 24 hours a day. I'd never stop watching.
I was hoping that’s what the WWE Network would be, instead we get awful shows like “The Bump”, and re runs of documentaries over and over again.
I’d watch that. Also Sheik could just have a reality show himself!!
Damn now I need it.
Peacock has a lot of shows
Genius idea. I'd watch probably watch it over a lot of today's programming
Gotta love the ending with Sheiky Baby going nuts with jazz playing in the background.
Wrestling Scholar Bernkastel you belong to the city by Glenn fry
Wrestling Scholar Bernkastel PICK UP THE COTTON, WITCH OF MIRACLES!
Lovely stuff
They tried to play him off like they do during the Academy Awards.
Glen Frye, of the legendary Eagles (and not the Philadelphia troop).
"Pick up the cotton" followed by the You Belong to the City 🎷 is just gold
Also, Coming Up….The Macho Man Hahahahaha!!!
Christ he called (Hillbilly Jim) "Farmer Pig Boy" that's epic.
😂😂😂😂 followed by pick up the cotton. GOLD !
From 0:59 it's pure gold.
You know anytime that camera zoomed in on the Sheik it was to hide Mean Gene laughing!
The greatest of his promos. Gene yelling pick up the cotton and Glenn Frey is playing at the same in the background while the Sheik is rambling. RIP Legend 🐫
was the Glenn Frey track on the original broadcast lol i'm crying
It s genius.
It's like thier trying to drown out the Shiek's innane rambling with elevator music. Hilarious
Should have played Cotton Fields by CCR
TV peaked at this point 😂
Shieky always cheers me up when I'm having a bad day. He's truly the best entertainer
Totally. 😃
His videos cure cancer.
Essactly
HE IS CHAMPEEN OF DA' VORLD!!!
Same here
Can’t think of the last time I watched a feature film that provided as much entertainment as this clip does in one minute and forty seconds.
I was having a bad day at work until UA-cam decided to recommend this to me.
Omg... Mean Gene lost it at "Pick up the cotton." 😂😂😂
I lost it at Halle Berry... Took me a minute to realize he was saying HillBilly.
He was saying Hellybelly Jim, which I guess is sort of midway between Halle Berry and Hillbilly.
Get it right, it was "Gene Mean."
“PICK UP THE COTTON!?!?!?
Sheikisms:
1.Wrestley = recently
2.helly-belly= hillbilly
3.Tat-a-torium = auditorium
4.palace = please
5.Side of fries = satisfied
6..Corny = corn
7.Champ-Win= Champion
8.Alluvasuns = all of a sudden
Sancra- manto
Tau sand, tau sand
We gonna found out...
You would make a fortune if you published a book that translates Sheik-speak!
Thanks
Iron Sheik knows that Halle Berry Jim is an all American Boy and will wrestle him in the California.
In the California state capeetal Sankramento!
thefly21 I won’t mind wrestling with Halle Berry :)
thefly21 I wish it were the actress I’d like to wrestle her 😍!
With "thousands thousands." Or something like that. LOL
@@hf6150 😄😄
Helly belly gym.
I thought it Halle Berry Geam.
Hero of the pig people.
vaaat evvver
Helly Belly Jean
thats how I heard it.
I read this before hearing it, I thought you were referencing the shiek's favorite gym... he's got a solid core.. ;)
The Sheik gets real when the headgear comes off.
this is a true wrestling character,.. original and real.. they dont make them like this anymore
Akuma4u totally agreed
WWE is dying not because of ufc and boxing
But because it lacks originality
Good characters
Good stories
Good matches
Good wrestling
Is all you need
Plenty better and better than ever, fuck the day a leg drop was ok
@@stickykitty Its ironic because ufc and boxing are just as scripted and fixed too.
Hell yeah
I think they still do. The Miz was original and real, and so was Kurt Angle, and so was Umaga.
The GOAT! The entire current WWE lineup don’t have 1/2 the mic skills this man had.
Iron Sheik was a legend. RIP.
I forgot about "Helly Belly Jim" 😃 And it caught me off guard again and made me laugh out loud and choke on a Jaffa cake. That's the Sheik's legacy right there.
Funny as a 12 year old.
Epic lulz at 49. 😂
Gene Mean
Sankramentos
Hilly Belly Jim
Pig People
Pick up the Cotton
Typical Shieky nuggets of gold ..the Joey Diaz of wrestling
"The Joey Diaz of Wrestling". That description is fucking tremendous.
Johnny Stubbs couldn’t agree more
Clean that muffler 😂😂😂
Here you go, 5 (more like 4) good names for a punk band
Big apple
He got triggered when men gene said you speak English. I SPEAK MY LANGUAGE FIRST THEN I SPEAK ENGLISH
Tbf it was a very racist thing for Gene Mean to do. In fact I'm going to rant about in on my tumblr account all night. :P
Intelligent Jew American!
Attention current generation of wrestlers: This is how it's done.
Agreed
I doubt any of them are allowed to say anything like this on air any more. Vince McMahon would erase them from existence if they said half the stuff the old school wrestlers did.
80s and 90s were the best although early 2000s were also pretty good. It’s when things got into the 2010s that things turned to shit.
So much to work with these days
McMahon needs to fix wrestling
Recently discovered Sheik promos, my god he is top 5 promo guy ever.
*"PICK UP THE COTTON"*
cue muzak
Gene mean lost it lol
I noticed in these videos the camera man zooms in on the sheik because Gene is trying his best to keep from laughing lol
😂😂😂
"towsin..towsin american flags..." lol
"...and dat maykah me seek!!!"
@@ohyeah1994, LaMon nwawrestler I love at :20 when he says "da state capitTTAALLL sank-a-ra-mento"
Two things I learned:
1) The capital of California is Sancramento
2) Halley Belly Jim was a thing in wrestling
Don't forget the Corporal Koreshner!
Halley Belly Jim was with the pig people. They pick up the cotton.
The Sheik is fucking awesome. He just made Gene Mean humble.
This may be the most unintentionally funny promo of all time.
Schultz's promo was intentionally funny.
Most unintentionally funny is a toss up between Luger's Superbrawl Saturday and Jumpin Jeff Farmer.
Precisely
@@deasttn Exactly
We need more wrestlers goin crazy off the script, being sounded off by an 80s saxaphone riff.
I just watched this four times in celebration of Persian New Year
The 80s had no idea what to do with this man's talent
anthologyofinterest1 - Oh they did! He was super popular. Him and Nikolai Volkoff were the top team for a while. The routine they did at the beginning of the match with Nikolai singing the Russian anthem and Sheik telling everyone to shut up and “Iran number one, USA hah-tooy!!” And would spit was genius
@@Best_Wrestling_Promos Come try my club!!!
How? He was literally champion of the world.
He's a household name today because of his 80s run.
@@HoustonIsImmortal No, he's a household name today because of his shoot interview from 2005/6 and the Howard Stern Show.
I'm so glad these Sheik promos have been recommended to me. I was a WWF but never really paid much attention to him. He's the funniest thing I've seen in years. Comedic brilliance.
VintageMXer 100%, Gene Mean !
Pick up the cotton!!!
"...the pig people..." Hilarious!
Meanwhile somewhere in Chicago, Al Bundy and Steve Rhodes are walking the cold windy streets looking for a rare Barbie doll.
😂😂😂
That was a good episode
Let's rock!
FFS 😂 got me dying
John Smith hell yeah! Amazing how you pieced that together
Gene mean and him were best friends. Gene was the best man at his wedding.
RIP LEGEND one of my favorite promo artists to come watch from the good old days
Lmfaoooo the music and the pick up the cotton line took me out!
Love how Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City" closes out Sheiky baby's promo about Hillbilly Jim.
I was thinking the exact same thing. This promo is pure classics 80s to begin with but having that classic track at the end it just the icing on the cake for 80s fans.
That added a nice touch. Glen Frey with the voice of The Iron Sheik
You belong in the state capeetal of Sankramento in the California. With the thousand thousand.
@@theflyxx I'm fucking crying over here 😂😂😂💀
This is some of the best fucking entertainment!
He was the best, riling up the US fans with his anti-American rants. And calling him Gene Mean. So good. And Gene was his best man at his wedding, they were good friends. Makes you look at his performance at a whole other level.
100%. If we’re talking the word “entertainer”, I don’t know how Sheik isn’t the GOAT...
truly... I think it was a year or 2 ago when he showed up in my twitter feed. man...
"Pick Up The Cotton?" "Exactly!"
😂😂😂
"Hellybelly Jeem pickg up deh cotton!" 🤣
Blow dries his moustache at 4:00 am while Undertaker is trying to sleep. Legend
Every time I click on an Iron Sheik video, I know it's going to be a riot!!!
Pick up the cotton! Love it.
"WELL I PREFER TO A SPEAK MY LANGUAGE FIRST, AND THEN ENGLISH!"
I actually thought he said "I prefer to speak MY ENGLISH first and THEN English..." LOL!!!
Hilly Billy Jim and the pig people will be humbled.
ICEGOD2 Swine????
The mountain men of Deliverance would have been squealing like pigs had the Iron Sheik gone on that camping trip.
lol he said that cause Muslims aren't allowed to eat pig
The Iron Sheik would have made those mountain men from deliverance humble....and he would have broken their backs and put them in the camel clutch...thereby making them broke back mountain men from then on
I love the Shiek's interviews lol
Good lord this is the peak, Glenn Frey blasting over Iron Sheik threatening everyone within a thousand foot radius
After all these years, I still have no fakkin' idea what Iron Sheik was saying.
And I wouldn't have it any other way. RIP, Legend.
"You're absolutely right Gene Mean."
Never knew how good his promos was, up the with Macho, Hogan and Flair. Halley Belly Jim. Lol
God, I love this guy. Every sentence he spoke in this promo was wonderful. Sheik, you helped make the WWF awesome in the 80s. Dude, the music at the end haaahhhaha
If I ever go on a crack cocaine binge I want it to be with The Iron Sheik!
Lol
🤣🤣
Why would you want to smoke crack??
To all the young people out here you listen to this over and over again. The Iron Sheik was the original Rock on the mic! This man was pure gold! "YOU ARE ABSOLUTE RIGHT GENE MEAN!"
Who can say "pick up the cotton" in 2021? That's right, not many!
What makes this doubly better is You Belong to the City playing on the outtro. ❤
Love the 80's music they always played at the end. By the way, it's Glenn Frey, "You Belong to the City".
I nearly collapsed from laughter when You Belong to the City started playing
I love how he was super heel back then but now everyone loves these interviews XD
Mario Vasquez - Even back then it was a love/hate relationship. You just can’t actually hate the Iron Sheik. He’s too entertaining
Gene Mean gets me everytime 😂
That smooth jazz outro had me dying though!! Random as hell!
gotta be the most unique wrestler of all time
Maybe together with George Steele
Hellabelly Jim 😂
“You absolutely right gene mene” I lost It after that 😂
He always called him Gean Mean.
That's right Gene Mean. Man I really liked the sheiks promos. He was a laugh riot. The perfect bad guy. He and Macho Man were the best interviews.
The best part is he came to America not knowing much if any English and ended up living the American dream and busted his ass, he had drug issues for sure, but he was always a hard worker. What happened to his daughter and how he took it was heartbreaking though. The respect the rock showed him when jabroni was officially made a word in the dictionary and made sure sheik was credited for the word.
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER GOLDEN AGE OF WRASSLIN
I love the bump music as they go to commercial....
Most charismatic broken english ever ! R.i.P Sheik
I love how Gene fires him up...well you speak great english too Shiek lmao...boom off he goes...I'm dying 🤣
I'm gonna borrow that line. "Pick up the cotton, jabroni!" I hope Sheiky baby wouldn't mind. ☺️
Growing up we all hated the Sheik. As an so-called Adult I absolutely love what the Sheik did in front of the mic and in the ring. The Gene Mean the great American Jew, The HellyBelly Jim, picking up the cotton, Camera Man Zoom.
Gene Mean lol...RIP Sheik. I love you man...an inseparable part of my childhood.
They always had to zoom in on the shiek because gene couldn't keep it together without laughing during his promos. Classic shieky baby. 🐫 🇮🇷
I need to watch this everyday for the rest of my life. RIP Gene Mean!
- you speak good English too, sheik
- WELL, I PREFER TO SPEAK MY LANGUAGE FIRST AND THEN ENGLISH!!!
@@IggyZgalf 😂
Iron sheik gotta love him
I just love the fact that the music starts once he said "Pick up the cotton." 😂
Greatest heel in wrestling history
@@jimdellavecchia4594 Sheik and Piper
The ultimate heel. And the great Gene Mean. RIP Mean Gene. Miss you guys so much.
the hilly billy jim and the gene mean!!! i love him so much, what a superstar!!!!!!!!!
Legend
"I see tousand tousand American flag, and that make me sick!"
😂
"Gene Mean" just never gets old LOLOLOL
'Hellybelly Jim' I LOVE it!
Two of the best who ever did it right there.
The best part of this promo is when "You Belong to the City... You Belong to the Night" saxophone starts playing!
It never struck me before how much Bas Rutten looks like a chilled out Iron Sheik.
Bwaaahaaaaa he does!!
@@Rightsideup
Absolute brilliance would be to hear Bas do this impersonation.
Awesome promo by Iron Sheik. Cant make em like that. Hands down does one of the best promos.
The Hallybelly Jim