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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningEd FarhatFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchEdward George FarhatStatisticsRing name(s)The SheikThe Sheik of ArabyBilled height5 ft 11 in (180 cm)Billed weight247 lb (112 kg)BornJune 7, 1924Lansing, MichiganDiedJanuary 18, 2003Williamston, MichiganBilled fromThe Syrian DesertDebut1950Edward George Farhat (June 7, 1924 – January 18, 2003) was a professional wrestler best known as The Sheik (or The Original Sheik to distinguish him from the wrestler the Iron Sheik of the 1980s). He was the owner and operator of Big Time Wrestling, one of the most successful promotions during the 1960s. He is also one of the originators of what would eventually become the Hardcore wrestling style.Contents1 Career2 Finishing and signature moves3 Previous Managers4 Championships and Accomplishments5 Trivia6 Sources[edit]CareerEdward Farhat was born to a family of Lebanese immigrants in Michigan. He was a star football player in high school and college for the University of Michigan and served in the army during World War II before he became a foreign heel as The Sheik of Araby or later, just The Sheik. He started out wrestling in the Midwest and later in Texas but his biggest match was one he didnt wrestle in. He was set to face NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz in Chicago for his title but Thesz had a reputation for exposing and embarrassing gimmick wrestlers so Farhat bailed from the ring and hid under a bus. The publicity from the event helped push the Sheik character to a more prominent level. He went to New York for Vincent J. McMahon where he teamed with Johnny Valentine and Bill Curry in feuds against Mark Lewin and Don Curtis as well as the team of Antonino Rocca and Miguel Pérez in Madison Square Garden. He would return when McMahon formed the World Wide Wrestling Federation to feud with Bruno Sammartino in the WWWFs major markets in the late 1960s.The Sheiks wrestling was centered around his character of a rich wild man from Syria. He would lock on normally mundane holds and refuse to break them, leading to submission. He used hidden pencils to cut open his opponents faces. Often, the tactic would backfire and the opponent would get the pencil, leading to the extensive scarring on Farhats forehead. The other illegal move was his fireball that he threw into his opponents faces and they would sell as if their face was burnt severely. He didnt speak on camera and had two different managers during his career to cut promos on his behalf. His first manager was Abdullah Farouk but when he managed full-time in WWWF, the Jewish Eddy Creatchman became his manager. He kept in character even around his own family, only breaking character around business partners. The character was very easy to go from territory to territory with and Farhat was often brought in as a special attraction for big shows or by NWA promoters who were fighting opposition promotions.His biggest feud was his seemingl

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