According to ESPN, before wrestling he was a bodyguard for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran. He almost made his country's Olympic wrestling team in 1968. Vaziri eventually moved to the US ...
He “was the very embodiment of a traditional masculine character.” So Ashraf Pahlavi remembered her father Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. “Although I feared my father, I shared some of his ...