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"The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff (born Oreal Perras on August 25, 1942, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former Canadian professional wrestler who once held the WWF World Heavyweight Championship.
Perras was raised on a dairy farm in rural Ontario along with his six brothers and three sisters.
Since first watching professional wrestling on TV at the age of eight, he wanted to become a wrestler, and would often wrestle with his brothers growing up. At age 18, he left high school and joined Jack Wentworth's wrestling school in Hamilton, Ontario, where he would lift weights and learn wrestling holds. Ivan stood 5' 7 1/2" tall, and weighed approximately 270 pounds. Towards the end of his career he dropped a considerable amount of weight and was tipping the scale at 205 pounds.
Perras debuted as an Irish rogue heel character named Red McNulty, billed from Dublin, Ireland and wrestling with an eyepatch. For the next three years, he wrestled around the Toronto area, eventually quitting his regular job to wrestle in the north-western area of Canada. There, Perras acquired much wrestling experience, and from there he made his first trip to Japan.
Actors: Eddie Guerrero (actor), Bill Goldberg (actor), Gerald Brisco (actor), Jamie Gibson (actor), Shane Douglas (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Ted DiBiase (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Scott Bigelow (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Marcus Bagwell (actor), Jimmy Hart (actor), Bret Hart (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Bobby Heenan (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Bret Hart (actor), Matt Hardy (actor), Jeff Hardy (actor), Mick Foley (actor), Terry Funk (actor), Mike Durham (actor), Tony Chimel (actor), Steve Austin (actor), Adam Copeland (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Michael Coulthard (actor), John Hennigan (actor), Mike Hegstrand (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Mark Calaway (actor), Carlos Colón Jr. (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Michael Buffer (actor), Steve Borden (actor), John Cena (actor), Kurt Angle (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Muhammad Ali (actor), Steve Austin (actor), Marcus Bagwell (actor), Antonio Banks (actor), Dave Bautista (actor), André the Giant (actor), Adam Copeland (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Terry Funk (actor), Sal Guerrero (actor), Harry Fujiwara (actor), A.C. Connor (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Solofa Fatu Jr. (actor), Eddie Fatu (actor), Rodney Anoai (actor), Terry Brunk (actor), Shelton Benjamin (actor), Mark Calaway (actor), Carlos Colón Jr. (actor), Mike Durham (actor), Jeff Hardy (actor), Oscar Gutiérrez (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Jimmy Hart (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Steve Borden (actor), John Belushi (actor), Howard Finkel (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Terry Funk (actor), John Cena (actor), Mike Chioda (actor), Steve Corino (actor), Ted DiBiase (actor), Shelton Benjamin (actor), Wayne Farris (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Hulk Hogan (actor),
Genres: Sport,Actors: André the Giant (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Kurt Angle (actor), Chris Benoit (actor), Steve Austin (actor), Earl Hebner (actor), John Cena (actor), Mike Chioda (actor), Mick Foley (actor), Mick Foley (actor), King Kong Bundy (actor), Bret Hart (actor), Owen Hart (actor), Mark Calaway (actor), Jim Hellwig (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Ric Flair (actor), Harry Fujiwara (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Barry Darsow (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Ted DiBiase (actor), Brian Adams (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Barry Darsow (actor), Adam Copeland (actor), Eric Bischoff (actor), James E. Cornette (actor), Mike Hegstrand (actor), Barry Darsow (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Documentary, Sport,Actors: Jim Ross (actor), Dusty Rhodes (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Larry Pfohl (actor), Joe Laurinaitis (actor), Mike Hegstrand (actor), Teddy Long (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Earl Hebner (actor), James E. Cornette (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Mike Kimmel (actor), Tony Schiavone (actor), Mike Rotunda (actor),
Plot: This video features highlights of some of the matches from the Third Annual Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup tag team tournament. The tournament took place from April 22-April 23, 1988. Most of the matches of this large tournament are left out, and a lot of the matches are edited pretty short to fit on a two hour tape. Teams included on the tape are The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal), The Midnight Express (Eaton and Lane), The Four Horsemen (Anderson and Blanchard), The Fantastics (Rogers and Fulton), Lex Luger and Sting, The Jive Tones (Whatley and Conway), Ivan Koloff and Dick Murdoch, Larry Zbyszko and Al Perez, The Varsity Club (Rotunda and Steiner), The Powers of Pain (Warlord and Barbarian), Jimmy Valiant and Mighty Wilbur, The Sheepherders (Miller and Williams), Kendall Windham and The Italian Stallion, and Ron Simmons and Steve Williams. I won't tell the matches as that will give away the winners (since this was a single elimination tournament). Other matches on the card are NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Nikita Koloff, The Midnight Rider (Dusty Rhodes) vs J.J. Dillon in a bloody Texas Bullrope Match, and Jimmy Garvin vs Kevin Sullivan in a Prince of Darkness Death Match (both wrestlers had hoods over their heads and couldn't see). Finally, the tape goes back to January 24, 1988 for the finals of the Third Annual Bunkhouse Stampede. Battle royales had been held at several house shows in the weeks leading up to this event, and the winners of each battle royale entered this battle royale final, held inside a steel cage. The match is joined in progress on the tape, so I don't know if some wrestlers had already been eliminated. The wrestlers on the tape are Arn Anderson, Road Warrior Animal, The Barbarian, Tully Blanchard, Ivan Koloff, Lex Luger, The Warlord, and the winner of the first two Bunkhouse Stampedes, Dusty Rhodes.
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