Josip Peruzović

Known for ActingBorn 1947-10-14Died 2018-07-29Split, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1

WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event

Wrestling's Most Embarrassing Moments

WWE War to Settle the Score

Tuesday Night Titans

WWE WrestleMania X-Seven

WWF Prime Time Wrestling

WWE Hall of Fame 2005

WWE WrestleMania VI

WWE Survivor Series 1987

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event

WWE Survivor Series 1988

WWF Superstars

WWE Survivor Series 1990

The Sheik

WWE Hall of Fame

WWE WrestleMania III

WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams

WWE WrestleMania IV

WWE SummerSlam 1988

WWE Royal Rumble 1992

WWE SummerSlam 1990

Raw

WWF Wrestling Challenge

WWE Royal Rumble 1988

WrestleMania

WrestleMania II

Sweet Daddy Siki

The Wrestling Classic

Wrestling's Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest!

350 Days

WWE WrestleFest

Wrestling Then and Now

The British Bulldogs

WrestleMassacre

Daisy Derkins and the Dinosaur Apocalypse

Cool As Hell 2

Heroes of Wrestling

Giants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains II

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1

Grand Masters of Wrestling: First Blood Vol. 1

Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 2

Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 1

Legends Never Die

World Wrestling Legends: 6:05 - The Reunion

WWE SuperTape: Volume 1

WWE SummerSlam Fever