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Vince McMahon has never been shy to use political and world events and hatred around the world for the U.S. as means to promote angles. During the first Gulf War in 1991, they had Sgt. Slaughter turn heel by saying he was supporting Saddam Huissan and Iraq. And of course now they have La Resistance waving French Flags in the ring and bad mouthing America every week. And one of the most famous, who can forget back in the mid 1980's during the peak of the cold war, you had the Iron Shiek and Nikolai Volkoff. The Iron Shiek was an Iranian wrestler coming down to the wring every week and waving an Iranian flag and screaming about how great the Iotola was. And Volkoff always POed whatever arena he was in by singing the Soviet national anthem before his matches.

Those were the days. B-) One of my co-workers at a job I was at, he went to the Civil Arena to see the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff wrestle and after Nikolai sung the anthem of the USSR, my co-worker told me the story where he took his coke, lobbed it at the ring and hit the Iron Sheik in the head. He was tossed out of the Civil Arena for that. B-) It must have been around 1984 or 1985.

I also remember King Kong Bundy and Big John Studd too.

I saw Shiek and Volkoff in the mid 80s. When they sang the Soviet anthem, the crowd tossed thousands of wrappers at them & nothing happened. When Hulk Hogan started flexing after his match I threw one hotdog wrapper at him and got tossed out of the arena.

I always hated the good guys.

Anyone recall Championship Wrestling from Florida back in the '70's? Tim Woods. Bobby Shane ("I don't want you bad mouthin' me on TV, you understand?'). Ed Graham. And a host of others. That was entertaining wrestling. At the time I thought it was head and shoulders above McMahon's WWWF.

John Studd, I believe, died some years back. I don't know what happened to Bundy, but I did see him on an episode of "Married With Children"!

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