Soon after, The Iron Sheik moved to the tag team division and teamed with Nikolai Volkoff. The foreign pairing went on to win the World Tag Team Championship in 1985 at WrestleMania, defeating the ...

Although Volkoff is probably best known as the evil Russian who teamed up with The Iron Sheik to become a World Tag Team Champion, he actually had his first match in 1968 against Bruno Sammartino.

Many online wound up making similar jokes by invoking one of Hogan's old rivals, The Iron Sheik (real name Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri). Most variations of the joke involve the late Iron Sheik ...