10 Alternative Views On Wrestling’s Biggest Scandals

In 1987, ‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan and The Iron Sheik played polar opposites on WWF television. Duggan was a patriotic babyface, whereas the Sheik was portrayed as a foreign heel menace. Behind the scenes, the men were good friends and travel partners. When they were busted by police for drugs whilst riding together on the road, it caused some problems for the company that employed them. In ’87, the idea of wrestling being outed as ‘fake’ was appealing to the mainstream media, and they jumped all over the story.

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