Author: Houston Mitchell / Source: latimes.com
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 Peruzovic, died at his home in Maryland. His wife, Lynn, said that he had been in the hospital with heart problems, had been released recently and that when she went to give him medicine he was not responsive.
As Volkoff, Peruzovic was best known as a former tag team champion with The Iron Sheik during the height of the Cold War. Volkoff was billed as being from Russia (Peruzovic was actually born in Yugoslavia), but drew some of the loudest boos and catcalls of the era when he would tell the ring announcer to make this announcement: “Mr. Volkoff…
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