Below is what Harley Race had to say about The Sheik he says he wrestled him on Tv but not in a cage....
 
Harley Race: The Original Sheik, let me tell a quick story about him. I started my career driving Happy Humphrey who weighed 785 pounds. I met the Sheik in Cleveland, Ohio with Humphrey. I got married in Cleveland, Ohio. I wrestled the Sheik on TV in Cleveland. My wife thought it was the worst thing that she ever witnessed. Left Cleveland and came home. My wife was killed in a automobile accident. I was 17 at the time. The Sheik who hadn't known me until that date found out about this and for a year thereafter, once a month, I had a cheque from the Sheik. After I made it back into wrestling and back to work, the man would never take one nickel of it back. So in my opinion, the Original Sheik was as nice as a person as I ever met.
 
Below is the site were he answers about The Sheik and many more great questions....
 
http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingHarleyRace/race_chat-can.html