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“He was the one of The Sheik's many nephews, and he was badgering him to train him and to get him into the business. And The Sheik kept saying, 'No, no, no,' he didn't want to do it, he just didn't think it would be a good life. But Terry, he was getting in a lot of trouble with the law, falling in with the wrong people, and The Sheik thought, 'Well, maybe I could save him from this by getting him into the wrestling business.” - Brian Solomon, author of “Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling’s Original Sheik.