10 greatest heel WrestleMania victories

Sometimes, the bad guy wins
Sometimes, the bad guy wins

#9 The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff - WrestleMania 1

The foreigners stole the show
The foreigners stole the spotlight

This one may seem a little bit random, but hey, sometimes that’s what WrestleMania is all about. Of course, there’s no way Vince McMahon could’ve known his back in the 80s when he booked the finish of this match, but it’s still fun to look back and consider what the process of arranging this bout would’ve been.

The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff, who were managed by Freddie Blassie, were a classic evil foreign tag team. Together they were virtually unstoppable, and they managed to prove that on the grandest stage of them all. Sheik & Volkoff managed to topple the US Express at Madison Square Garden, capturing the Tag Team Championships in the process.

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