Nikolai Volkoff, real name Josip Nikolai Peruzović, best known as the evil Russian who teamed up with The Iron Sheik to become a World Tag Team Champion, has died. He was 70. “WWE is saddened to learn ...

Nikolai Volkoff, the burly wrestler whose brash Soviet persona and physical embodiment of Communism made him one of the most hated figures in professional wrestling, has died at the age of 70, World ...

(WBFF) -- During the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, there was perhaps no more evil character in professional wrestling than Nikolai Volkoff. He was a 300 lbs., barrel chested Russian, who along ...

Sunday was a sad day for fans of World Wrestling Entertainment as two of its former superstars, Nikolai Volkoff and Brian Lawler, died. WWE Hall of Famer Nikolai Volkoff, real name Josip Nikolai ...

NPR's Don Gonyea and journalist Oliver Bateman remember wrestler Nikolai Volkoff, who died recently at age 70. He portrayed an evil Soviet but was actually a fiercely anti-Communist Yugoslav defector.

The iconic wrestler was mourned by his former tag team partner The Iron Sheik on Twitter on Sunday morning. “MY BEST FRIEND. MY PARTNER. MY BROTHER.” he wrote. “WE GET MORE HEAT THAN ANYONE ON EARTH.

Nikolai Volkoff, real name Josip Nikolai Peruzović, best known as the evil Russian who teamed up with The Iron Sheik to become a World Tag Team Champion, has died. He was 70. “WWE is saddened to learn ...