10 Forgotten Final Matches Of WWE Legends
3. The Iron Sheik
Raw on March 10th 2008, teaming with Nikolai Volkoff against Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo
Despite contesting his last match over 15 years ago, the Iron Sheik still lives his gimmick in 2023.
Being born in Iran and joining WWE in the 80s was only ever going to have one outcome: devious foreign heel! Fortunately, he was one of the best to do it; the perfect foil to squeaky clean babyfaces like Bob Backlund, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and Hulk Hogan. He'd even get a run with the WWE Championship before being pulled over in New Jersey and fired.
Sheik bounced between WWE, WCCW, and WCW before coming back to the 'E as Colonel Mustafa to back Iraqi sympathiser Sgt. Slaughter... because Iraq and Iran are the same thing, aren't they WWE? Was this booking any worse than the Heroes Of Wrestling event in 1999 where Sheik wrestled? There's no winners in answering that question...
Against all odds, Sheik was involved in WWE matches in the 21st century. First, he'd win the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania X-Seven because he wasn't cleared to take a bump. His final match took place on a special edition of Raw that was based around WrestleMania rematches, just not the ones people wanted to see.
Sheik teamed with old ally Nikolai Volkoff against Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo of U.S. Express. We'd be spared having to see the bout take place by Jillian Hall of all people, who interrupted the legends to sing a song. Respectful as ever by WWE... The history books show the match as ending in a no contest, with the debacle marking Sheik's last dalliance in the ring.