Posted on 07/29/2018 3:50:00 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
Volkoff began wrestling in 1967 and embarked on a career that lasted nearly 40 years. He spent the bulk of his time in the WWF and World Wide Wrestling Federation, Vince McMahon Sr.'s precursor to the WWF. He also spent time with the American Wrestling Association in the 1970s.
Volkoff and The Sheik were one of the premier heel tag teams of the 1980s under the management of Classy Freddie Blassie. The pair won the WWF Tag Team Championship once before breaking up. Volkoff later teamed with Boris Zukhov as part of The Bolsheviks for the remainder of the 1980s before leaving the company in 1990. He briefly returned in 1994 and 1995 as a member of the Million Dollar Corporation before retiring...
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The glory days...Tommy ‘Wildfire’ Rich and ‘Junkyard Dog’.
Damn. Brickhouse Brown died the same day, too!
https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/brickhouse-brown-passes-away-after-battle-cancer-262671
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