These days, the real life Hossein Vaziri is something of a minor celebrity amongst wrestling fans and fans of pop culture alike, thanks to his cheerfully profane online presence, a Twitter account engaged in churning out the retired wrestlers usual schtick. Youll have seen it or seen it retweeted or shared plenty of times: vague, almost sexual threats against Hulk Hogans person, and the persons of any other wrestler he doesnt like; constant jabbering about Miley Cyrus/Justin Bieber/whichever other celebrity du jour is in the headlines; occasional plugs for merchandise or media associated with his name; that kind of thing. Rinse and repeat. The Iron Sheik stays current for the same reason that any elderly celebrity, slightly off their game but game for a laugh, might be a fixture of the talk show circuit or have their interviews eagerly perused for mal mots: William Shatner, David Hasselhoff, were looking at you. In this case though, the 74-year-old Vaziri isnt the man behind the amped up persona thats his management team, twin money-hungry self-promoters Page and Jian Magen. That schtick were talking about? Theyve taken the broken down ravings of a cracked out, disabled pensioner and processed them into random tweets to sell product. A decade ago, the victim of botched surgery that left his knees worse than when he went under the knife, a broke, alcoholic and crack-addled Vaziri would be recorded in shoot interviews, blethering aggressively about all manner of subjects. People inclined to forget that they were looking at a man gone far, far down the rabbit hole thought they were hilarious. Enter the Magens, old family friends who apparently helped him out of a tough spot back then, and have been helping themselves ever since. Pretty much everything Iron Sheik related in the media since 2006 is the brainchild of one of the brothers, not Vaziri. Vaziri himself has no access to the myriad online platforms that promote his alleged outbursts, and wouldnt know what they were or how to use them if he did. These days, befuddled, wheelchair-bound and in constant pain from chronic injuries and medical conditions, the Iron Sheik himself, ironically, isnt actually the Iron Sheik at all. The man you think you follow on Twitter is a work: the invention of a pair of hustlers from Toronto, intent on selling t-shirts and DVDs.