Line #7 Wrestling/ShawnDaivari


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4	Dara Shawn Daivari (born April 30, 1984) is an American {{professional wrestl\|ing}}er, manager and producer best known for his work for Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Daivari. He debuted in 1999 at the age of 15 and worked in Midwest independents for years, as well as wrestling four matches for Wrestling/RingOfHonor. He arrived in WWE in 2004 as the manager for Wrestling/MuhammadHassan. After that ended in disaster, he worked as the manager for Wrestling/KurtAngle, Wrestling/MarkHenry and Wrestling/TheGreatKhali. He would later wrestle for [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] as Sheik Abdul Bashir, and for ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground'' as [=DelAvar=] Daivari. He has also wrestled for Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling and numerous other promotions.
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6	Along with his reign as TNA X-Division Champion, he is also a former Neo-Pro Cruiserweight Champion, a former ICW (Wisconsin) Tag Team Champion, a former AWR (Ireland) No Limits Champion and he was the inaugural VPW (England) Champion.
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8	!!"Magic Carpet Tropes":
9	* ArabOilSheikh: As Sheik Abdul Bashir, as the "sheik" in his name indicated, although he would eventually become more of a Muhammad Hassan derivative.
10	* BadassInANiceSuit: He wore a suit in his managerial role in WWE, even if he would ocassionally wrestle.
11	* BilingualDialogue: His pairing with Wrestling/MuhammadHassan featured Daivari speaking in Persian/Farsi and Hassan in English. In this case, there were several wrestlers besides Hassan that ''couldn't'' understand Daivari, which allowed Wrestling/ChrisJericho to [[FunWithForeignLanguages invoke this trope]] for their amusement.
12	* BloodKnight: His main reason to come to the Temple in ''Lucha Underground'': Dario Cueto liked to observe violence, Daivari liked to inflict it.
13	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In ''Lucha Underground'', he was never heard from again after Season 1. The only 'mention' of him since was a photograph of him appearing in Captain Vasquez's office alongside photographs of [[Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio Alberto El Patron]], Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, Hernandez and Big Ryck (other characters who stopped appearing after Season 1) under a Missing Persons banner.
14	* {{Expy}}: As Sheik Abdul Bashir, TNA made him a pretty blatant expy of Wrestling/MuhammadHassan, right down to a similar excuse for the gimmick (post-9/11 prejudice being the reason for him being a heel), and even engaging in some similar risqué stunts to (though never reaching the heights of) the ones that caused Hassan to be canned off WWE TV (such as having Bashir's theme start with the sound of ''an airliner taking off'' for a while).
15	* FinishingMove: Magic Carpet Drop, Flying Legdrop.
16	* ForeignCurseWord: Once called Wrestling/ChrisBenoit a "motherfucker" in Persian.
17	* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Sometimes billed from Tehran, Iran.
18	* AGlassOfChianti: In ''Lucha Underground''. Not wine, but Daivari was often seen sipping a glass of (what was probably very expensive) whisky, going along with his golden color motif in ''Lucha Underground''. He even was drinking a glass of the stuff inside the ring while waiting to start his first match against Texano!
19	* GoldColoredSuperiority: Both his ring attire and his title of "The Golden Warrior". Also, the whiskey he drank was a golden-brown color.
20	* HateSink: In ''Lucha Underground'', a combination of him being a {{Heel}} and not using the shows's flashy in-ring style led him to being one of the most hated people (if not ''the'' most hated person) in the Temple, to the point where fans openly cheered '''Texano''' over him. The only guy who got more hate at the time was Hernandez.
21	* IHaveManyNames: Besides going by just Daivari, there's his actual name Shawn Daivari, Khosrow Daivari, [=DelAvar=] Daivari, and Sheik Abdul Bashir.
22	* IWasBeatenByAGirl: [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]] defeated him for the MPW Cruiserweight Title.
23	* ImprobableWeaponUser: He'd perform a top rope splash while dropping a carpet on his opponent.
24	* InstitutionalApparel: As Sheik Abdul Bashir in TNA, he would wear a cut-off orange T-shirt evoking the image of the orange jumpsuits given to American prisoners, with them even having "POLITICAL PRISONER" emblazoned on them.
25	* {{Jerkass}}: Wrestling/JohnCena called Hassan and Daivari out on this.
26	-->'''Cena:''' These people don't hate you because you're Arab-American. They hate you because you're (censored) Asshole-American.
27	* OneSteveLimit: WWE renamed him Khosrow Daivari when he was in OVW, in part as a tribute to Wrestling/TheIronSheik, whose real first name that is, although the first name never made it to WWE TV, and as a way to avoid anyone possibly confusing him with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels. This was lampshaded by John Cena calling him a "bootleg Iron Sheik" on the December 12, 2005 episode of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]''.
28	* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Hassan and Daivari were angry about Arab-Americans being stereotyped as terrorists following 9/11.
29	* PowerStable:
30	** (in ROH): Wrestling/PrinceNana's The Embassy.
31	** (in TNA): World Elite, led by Wrestling/EricYoung.
32	** (in MLW Fusion): Wrestling/ContraUnit.
33	* RedBaron:
34	** (as Bashir): "The Middle-Eastern Nightmare"
35	** (as [=DelAvar=] Daivari in ''Lucha Underground''): "The Golden Warrior."
36	* StatusCellPhone: In ''Lucha Underground''. He was constantly texting and having conversations on his phone. It served double duty as a way to condescend to people by putting more attention to the phone than the person, as Dario Cueto found out.
37	* TagTeam:
38	** The Daivari Brothers/The P-Dogg Millionaires/The Sheiks, with his brother Ariya (sometimes billed as Mustafa)
39	** Weapons of Mass Destruction, with Sonjay Dutt.
40	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Sheik Abdul Bashir took the EvilerThanThou route, deciding to give the fans the mad Arab terrorist character they had accused him of being.
41	* WrestlingFamily: Has a younger brother, Ariya, that wrestles for WWE in their revived Cruiserweight division.

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