Nikita Koloff debuted with Crockett Promotions during June 1984, tutored by “Uncle Ivan” Koloff as part of a contingent of rule-breaking Russian rowdies. For the next couple of years, they often ...

This is the 10th part of a series on the legendary “Russian Bear” Ivan Koloff. Ivan Koloff, whose illustrious career began in the early ‘60s in his native Canada, maintained a full-time schedule until ...

As Cold War tensions ran high in the 1980s, Ivan Koloff was an evil Soviet character hated by wrestling fans throughout the U.S. He had bloody brawls against The Road Warriors, Dusty Rhodes, The Rock ...

Ivan Koloff, the former WWE wrestler known as “The Russian Bear,” died on Saturday after battling liver cancer. He was 74. “WWE is saddened to learn that Ivan Koloff, best known to the WWE Universe as ...

Former WWE champion Ivan Koloff has died following a battle with liver cancer. He was 74. WWE confirmed the news on Saturday via Twitter. Known as “The Russian Bear,” Koloff (Oreal Perras) was one of ...

The professional wrestler known as the bearded nefarious character “The Russian Bear” Ivan Koloff is dead. He was 74. The news was confirmed in a statement released by the WWE: “WWE is saddened to ...

Every hero needs a villain, and for Bruno Sammartino in WWE’s golden age, that evil was manifested in Ivan Koloff. During Koloff’s reign of terror in the 1970s ...

It is said that horrible things arrive in sets of three and that phenomenon struck the wrestling world on Saturday morning. After news broke earlier this week that both George “The Animal” Steele and ...