September 8th - Fire Editorial

Let's face it, if you were going to write a song about the breathless and shocked prose of the dirtsheets, it would probably be in the musical style of an early to mid 20th century musical, one of the ones about rugged machinery and the burly men who operate it. There may not be such musicals. There should be. I can imagine a procession of overalls and lunchpails.

Anyway, Ed Farhat was a tremendous character. A wild man and one of the earliest progenitors of hardcore in wrestling, and the kayfabe-keeping wrestling press of his day portrayed his appearances as akin to a declaration of war on a town. He was, apparently, a sweetheart.

For the sake of clarity, The Sheik is the uncle of ECW legend Sabu. I'm saying this to distinguish him from the Golden Sheik, who was the uncle of AEW legend Kenny Omega. And of course the Iron Sheik, who was presumably the uncle of someone.