Shawn Daivari was born on April 30th 1984 in Minneapolis, MN. He's the middle child with one older and one younger brother. Born a full blooded Iranian, Shawn's Mother and Father immigrated to the United States from Tehran in the 70's where they hoped to find more opportunity for themselves and for the children they had planned to raise.
At age 15 Shawn began training to become a professional wrestler. Wrestling at small independent shows in front of crowds of 20 to a 200 people. Shawn perfected his craft wherever he could, often driving hundreds of miles on his own dollar just to get some ring time, then driving all through the night to get home just in time to shower and head off to school.
In August of 2004 Shawn signed a contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment where he was seen performing on a regular basis on their cable TV blockbuster Monday Night RAW on the USA Network, The CW Networks flagship show Friday Night Smackdown, or WWE's newest TV venture Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on the Sci-Fi channel. Since signing with WWE Shawn has had the opportunity to work with many of the industry's top performers on live events, international tours, and pay per views including Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan and many others.

In early 2008 Daivari completed several succesfull tours of the Orient wrestling for All-Japan Pro Wrestling. There he worked with the likes of Japanese wrestling stars Keji Muto, Kaz Hayashi, Kenski Sauski and was part of the largest heel stable in Japan, the Voodoo Murderers.

 
June 2008 Shawn Daivari signed a contract to wrestle for TNA Wrestling. Daivari, now going by Sheik Abdul Bashir on TNA broadcasts can be seen every Thursday night on SpikeTV on TNA's weekly broadcast show, TNA iMPACT! as well as on TNA live events and pay-per-views.