MVP recently appeared on the “Cheap Heat with Peter Rosenberg” podcast to discuss his memories of the late Iron Sheik. As we previously reported here on eWn, The Iron Sheik passed away at the age of 81 last week.
During the podcast, MVP recalled the first time he met the Shiek where he gave him some of that “sticky-icky” (marijuana) and what Shiek’s reaction to the gesture was.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On first meeting The Iron Sheik: “The very first time I met the Iron Sheik was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at a TV taping. I recall earlier that day asking Teddy Long about Sheiky Baby because I wanted to smoke with him. He said, ‘Yeah, he’s cool, man, go holla at him.’ I said, ‘Alright.’ You know, I had some sticky-icky that I wanted to share with the legend. The medicine. I saw him and I walked up and I said, ‘Sheiky Baby, I have some medicine for you.’ He goes, ‘God bless you. Thank you. God bless you. You have medicine for the Sheiky Baby?’ I gave it to him. I didn’t get to smoke with him that day, but I gave it to him. Later on, I ran into Teddy, and Teddy said that when he saw Sheiky he said, ‘Hey, Sheiky, MVP was looking for you. He’s got a little something for you.’ Legendary, forevermore, I will be known as The Gimmick Man, because Sheiky said to Teddy Long, ‘Gimmick Man? I talked to him, he have present for me.’”
On his friendship with Sheik: “Every time I saw Iron Sheik after that, if I didn’t have any, I would find some just to pay tribute to the legend, to give Sheiky Baby his medicine. After that we became pals. I mean, once I even had him do my voicemail for me. It was funny. You call me up and Sheiky Baby was my voicemail message, and the number of people that thought they got the wrong number or were confused — because he never called me MVP. Never. It was always PVM, MPV. He never got MVP.”
