'He was a character,' Canada's Bret 'Hitman' Hart remembers the late Iron Sheik

Bret Hart's longtime connection with the late Iron Sheik was first made in the early 1970s when an Iranian amateur wrestler -- real name Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri -- came to Calgary to learn from promoter Stu Hart. It was in the infamous wrestling dungeon at the Hart family residence that promoter Stu -- with teenage son Bret helping out -- worked with the Iron Sheik to help him make the transition to the professional style. "I was mostly just used as a practice dummy, but I got to be one of th