professional wrestler, better known by the ring name "the Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff, where he was billed from Russia and, following the dissolution of the...

renamed him "Nikita Koloff", the Russian Nightmare, and teamed him with "uncle" Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle, a turncoat American. Koloff was briefly trained...

long matches between the two. Other rivals included The Iron Sheik, Ivan Koloff, and Jesse Ventura, who would refer to Putski as "Puduski" when commentating...

Champions Don Kernodle and Ivan Koloff, both recently returned from the World Wrestling Federation, plus Ivan's nephew Nikita Koloff whom they were training...

Japan during the early 1990s. Koloff made his professional wrestling debut in 1991 teaming with his storyline uncle Ivan Koloff for Smoky Mountain Wrestling...

Koloff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ivan Koloff (1942–2017), Canadian wrestler Kolby Koloff (born 1996), American Christian...

Nikita Koloff after turning on Ivan Koloff's group. Facing Nikita Koloff in a series of Russian Chain Matches, they eventually kayfabe injured Koloff's neck...

versus Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda, Al Perez, Russian Assassin, and Ivan Koloff in a Tower of Doom match, The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers)...

years, since he was inducted before world champions like Randy Savage or Ivan Koloff, pointing him as the "floor for inductees". Ware spent his early days...

United States Tag Team Championship from Ivan Koloff and Kruscher Kruschev before losing the belts to Koloff and Dick Murdoch. In particular, Garvin feuded...

short by injury. He had feuds with Abdullah the Butcher, The Sheik, Ivan Koloff, Hans Schmidt and Killer Kowalski. He founded All-Star Wrestling in 1967...

Patterson in May 1978. In mid-1978, Anderson formed a tag team with Ivan Koloff. In June 1978, the duo defeated Thunderbolt Patterson and Tommy Rich...

teamed with Ivan Koloff to beat Rhodes and Road Warriors to win the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship at a live event on 12 February. Koloff and Powers...

Starrcade on November 28, 1985. In April 1986, Magnum began feuding with Ivan Koloff, who had started proclaiming that his nephew, Nikita, would become the...

for the newly created title, which was won by Krusher Khruschev and Ivan Koloff on September 28, 1986. In 1988, Crockett sold JCP to Ted Turner, who...

Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions in late 1987, they were joined by Ivan Koloff. The Powers of Pain then began feuding with the Road Warriors. During...

heels to be portrayed as "foreign" (e.g., Gunther, Alberto Del Rio, Ivan Koloff, The Iron Sheik, Rusev/Miro, Jinder Mahal, and Muhammad Hassan). In the...

He appeared during an altercation between The Russian Assassins and Ivan Koloff, saving the latter. His first match came shortly after in a television...

Heavyweight Championship, and The Rock 'n' Roll Express and the team of Ivan and Nikita Koloff in a Steel Cage Match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship. In...

side in both events along with The Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, and Paul Ellering. Koloff, Rhodes, and J. J. Dillon sustained serious injuries in the...

Warlord, Lex Luger, Road Warrior Animal, Steve Williams, Mighty Wilbur and Ivan Koloff had qualified for the Bunkhouse Stampede final. The final participant...

and Ivan Koloff. He made his professional debut on January 1, 1990, against ACW champion L.A. Stevens in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He wrestled Ivan Koloff...

America and formed a tag team with Ivan Koloff and won the NWA World Tag Team Title. When Koloff's "nephew" Nikita Koloff arrived in late 1984, Kernodle helped...

years. On July 9, 1985, the team debuted in JCP against the team of Ivan Koloff and Krusher Khrushchev, whom they defeated to begin their first reign...

American citizen in 1974. Hey was trained as a professional wrestler by Ivan Koloff. He debuted in 1965 under the ring name "Dale Valentine", billed as being...

team title from Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle. They feuded with them and Ivan's "nephew" Nikita Koloff until losing the title to the Koloffs in early 1985...

NWA World Tag Team Championship as part of a three-man team with Ivan and Nikita Koloff (although the NWA no longer recognizes any former tag team champions...

several days later, defeating Ivan Koloff in a Texas Death Match. He held the championship until October, when Koloff defeated him in a rematch. Jones...

The Road Warriors and Dusty Rhodes defeated The Powers of Pain and Ivan Koloff when The Barbarian accidentally hit his partner, The Warlord, with a...

Backlund's early challengers for the title included Spiros Arion, Mr. Fuji, Ivan Koloff, George "the Animal" Steele, and Ken Patera, and had his first high-profile...