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 ...

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 ...

The parallels between Alison Brie’s “GLOW” character Zoya the Destroya and real-life WWE Hall of Famer Nikolai Volkoff are unmistakable. So when news broke that Volkoff died Sunday just as Netflix’s ...

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 ...

Nikolai Volkoff, the WWE star known for playing a flamboyant Soviet/Russian character from the 1960s through the '90s, has died at age 70. His death came just days after being released from a hospital ...

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.

Nikolai Volkoff, real name Josip Nikolai Peruzovic, passed away Sunday morning at age 70, WWE has confirmed. Born in Croatia, Volkoff first worked for the New York territory -- then known as the World ...

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 ...