Volkoff
By Scott Keith on 11 December 2014
I'm watching WrestleMania I, and I had forgotten how over Windham and Rotundo were. Great looking team, and a decently entertaining match.
I'm looking at Nikolai Volkoff, however, and I'm not sure I enjoy anyone's total body of work less. Am I nuts, or is he just the absolute drizzling shits in every single match he's ever been in? Terrible selling, no moveset to speak of, and I can't even recall if he had a finisher other than hitting his opponent with Blassie's cane. Amazingly, he was still somehow not as bad as Boris Zhukov, but since no one remembers poor Boris, that's irrelevant.
Thoughts?
Vince really really liked Volkoff for god knows what reason. He was actually pushed as half of the Mongols years before as well and did shots in Mid-South and other places, and he was always terrible. Although his press slam backbreaker finisher was pretty good when he used it. But I'm with you, I never saw anything in him and there's no secret stash of Volkoff matches to make you think he's anything other than a super-generic Russian big man.