Rants

Nikita Koloff in WCW 1992

By Scott Keith on 16 November 2018



What happened with Nikita Koloff in '92?  When he came back as a babyface he was on a roll, and hugely over.  It looked like he was on his way to winning the US title from Rick Rude, then Vader got switched in at Halloween Havoc, beat Koloff and that was it. 
He was gone not long after that.

So what happened?  Was he originally supposed to win the US title at Havoc, and what was the real reason they switched from Rude to Vader after building that feud for months?
Koloff was on a short term contract and got a pretty bad neck injury, so WCW decided to cut him loose.  There were definitely no long term plans for him, WCW already saw him as something of a flake.