There have just been a handful of star wrestlers in U.s. history as dreaded and detested as The Sheik. Not to be confounded with The Iron Sheik (a honest to goodness local of Iran), the first model was renowned for a severe, bleeding style that saw him principle occasion far and wide against adversaries, for example, Bobo Brazil, Bruno Sammartino, Andre the Giant, Abdullah the Butcher, and the Funks. In the wake of resigning from the ring, he started to prepare another era of novel grapplers, including Rob Van Dam and his nephew, Terry "Sabu" Brunk.

In spite of the fact that charged as Syrian, Ed "Sheik" Farhat was of Lebanese plummet, brought up in Michigan. He was well-known for his commitment to the wrestling code of kayfabe, dropping his lunatic demonstration just around his closest relatives. As a general rule, however, The Sheik was a respectable and fair man – amid his fight with Brazil, numerous wrestling stadiums were isolated, so Sheik, in a wild craziness, would tear down the fencing wire differentiating the crowd area.