grappler

He also conceived the sounds that are produced by the giant beskar anvil — struck by a “Time Grappler” in a high bell tower — which Britell created by striking the pipes in Gilroy’s basement in Manhattan.

In a documentary about his life called “The Sheik,” he said he became attracted to wrestling as a teen and as a grappler in the Iranian Army.

And, many years later, after Bret signed a contract guaranteeing him control over how his in-ring character was written out of the WWF’s storyline, McMahon flipped the script without telling Bret and had the grappler lose in historically humiliating fashion during a championship match in Montreal.

But that conversation led her to enrol at the training academy of Lance Storm - a legendary Canadian grappler widely regarded as one of the most technically gifted wrestlers to have competed.

He found some answers for the Florida grappler, going low and grabbing the lead several times, but ended up on the wrong side of a 9-8 decision in the only championship match featuring a D.C.-area wrestler.