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Josip Peruzović
Born · October 14, 1947
Died · July 29, 2018 (70 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Split, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Bio
Josip Hrvoje Peruzović better known by his ring name of Nikolai Volkoff, was a Croatian-American professional wrestler who was best known for his performances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Although the Volkoff character was often portrayed as a villainous Russian, Peruzović originated from Yugoslavia. In the 1970s, he was Bepo of the Mongols tag team, one of the masked Executioners and feuded with Bruno Sammartino over the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship as Volkoff. In the 1980s, he was known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and later with Boris Zhukov as The Bolsheviks. In 1990, he turned face and embraced America, briefly feuding with Zhukov and newly-turned Iraqi sympathizer Sgt. Slaughter. In 1994, after a hiatus, he returned as a destitute and desperate character, exploited by Ted DiBiase as the first member of his Million Dollar Corporation.
Daisy Derkins and the Dinosaur Apocalypse
Self (as Nikolai Volkoff)
4.0
2021
350 Days
Self
5.4
2019
WrestleMassacre
Randy's Father
2.0
2018
Cool As Hell 2
Nikolai
4.0
2017
Sweet Daddy Siki
6.0
2017
The Sheik
7.4
2014
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
Nikolai Volkoff
10.0
2014
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
Nikolai Volkoff
10.0
2009
WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams
Nikolai Volkoff
7.1
2009
Giants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains II
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
2008
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
2007
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Count Zarkoff
0.0
2007
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 2
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
2006
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 1
Nikoli Volkoff
0.0
2006
Legends Never Die
0.0
2006
Grand Masters of Wrestling: First Blood Vol. 1
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
2006
World Wrestling Legends: 6:05 - The Reunion
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
2005
WWE Hall of Fame 2005
Nikolai Volkoff
7.0
2005
Wrestling Then and Now
Himself
0.0
2002
WWE WrestleMania X-Seven
Nikolai Volkoff
8.7
2001
Heroes of Wrestling
Nikolai Volkoff
1.0
1999
WWE Raw
Nikolai Volkoff · (12 episodes)
6.7
1993
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
Nikolai Volkoff
7.1
1992
WWE The Main Event IV
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1990
WWE Survivor Series 1990
Nikolai Volkoff
8.2
1990
WWE SummerSlam 1990
Nikolai Volkoff
6.3
1990
WWE SummerSlam Fever
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1990
WWE WrestleMania VI
Nikolai Volkoff
8.4
1990
WWF SuperTape
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1990
WWE Demolition
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1989
WWE Survivor Series 1988
Nikolai Volkoff
8.5
1988
The Best of the WWF: volume 17
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1988
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '88
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1988
WWE SummerSlam 1988
Nikolai Volkoff
7.4
1988
WWE Los Angeles Wrestling: August '88
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1988
WWE WrestleFest
Nikolai Volkoff
5.0
1988
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: July '88
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1988
WWE WrestleMania IV
Nikolai Volkoff
7.4
1988
WWE Royal Rumble
Nikolai Volkoff
6.9
1988
WWE Survivor Series 1987
Volkoff
8.9
1987
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1987
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '87
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1987
WWE WrestleMania III
Nikolai Volkoff
7.5
1987
The WWF's Even More Unusual Matches
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1987
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: January '87
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1987
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1987
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '86
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1986
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '86
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1986
The British Bulldogs
Nikolai Volkoff
4.0
1986
The Best of the WWF: volume 9
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1986
WWF Wrestling Challenge
Nikolai Volkoff · (47 episodes)
6.8
1986
WWE Villains of The Squared Circle
Nikolai Volkoff (Ringside)
0.0
1986
The Best of the WWF: volume 7
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1986
Wrestling's Living Legend Bruno Sammartino
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1986
WWE Detroit Wrestling '86
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1986
WrestleMania II
Nikolai Volkoff
6.4
1986
Tag Team Champions
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1986
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '85
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1985
The Wrestling Classic
Nikolai Volkoff
6.1
1985
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '85
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1985
Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Nikolai
0.0
1985
WrestleMania
Nikolai Volkoff
6.6
1985
WWE War to Settle the Score
Nikolai Volkoff
10.0
1985
WWF's Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1985
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '84
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1984
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: October '84
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1984
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '84
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1984
NWA The Last Tangle in Tampa
Nikolai Volkoff
0.0
1980