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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

tag team The Kansas Jayhawks with Dutch Mantel. In 1986, they lost to Ivan Koloff and Krusher Khrushchev in a tournament final to determine the inaugural...

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

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...

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...

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...

ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. Hoops, Brian (January 18, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/18): Ivan Koloff defeats Bruno Sammartino for WWWF title". Wrestling Observer Figure Four...

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...

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...

means that it lasted between 15 and 45 days. The exact date on which Ivan Koloff was awarded the championship by Dick Slater took place between December...

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...

Jim Crockett Promotions under his Warlord name and began teaming with Ivan Koloff with Paul Jones as their manager. In 1988, he then formed a permanent...

The Iron Sheik, Jimmy Snuka, Ray Stevens, The Masked Superstar, and Ivan Koloff. The stable was disbanded when Anderson reformed The Minnesota Wrecking...

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