Nikolai Volkoff
Titles Won:
- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)
- WWF Tag Team Championship – with The Iron Sheik
- WWWF International Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Geto Mongol
He was a Yugoslav-born American professional wrestler who was best known for his performances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Although the Volkoff character was often portrayed as a villainous Russian, Peruzović originated from Croatia.
In the 1970s, he was Bepo of the Mongols tag team, one of the masked Executioners and feuded with Bruno Sammartino over the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship as Volkoff. In the 1980s, he was known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and later with Boris Zhukov as The Bolsheviks. In 1990, he turned face and embraced America, briefly feuding with Zhukov and newly-turned Iraqi sympathizer Sgt. Slaughter. In 1994, after a hiatus, he returned as a destitute and desperate character, exploited by Ted DiBiase as the first member of his Million Dollar Corporation.
Notable Feuds
vs. Bruno Sammrtino
vs. Bob Backlund
vs. Corporal Kirchner
w/ The Iron Sheik vs. Jim Duggan
vs. Sgt Slaughter
Other Notable Achievements
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship – with Ivan Koloff
NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship
NWF World Tag Team Championship – with Geeto Mongol
MCW Hall of Fame (Class of 2009)
NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship – with Chris Markoff
Mid-South North American Championship
New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2013
NAW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
NCW Heavyweight Championship
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version) – with Boris Volkoff
UWA Heavyweight Championship
WWWA Heavyweight Championship
WWA Heavyweight Championship
