Real name: Josip Peruzovic
Home: Moscow, USSR
Membership: Partners with the Iron Sheik, the Bolsheviks, the Million Dollar Corporation
A.K.A.: Boris Breznikoff, Executioner#3, Nickle & Dime Volkoff
Finisher: Bearhug
Background: With the US, Europe, and most Asian countries now engaged in a superhuman race, the USSR was no exception. Dozens of men (and some women) were created or forged through the 1960's and well up to the 90's.
Among the dozens was weightlifter Josip Peruzovic. Volunteering for the process, the young man found his strength tripled. His IQ was down about fifty points, but he wasn't it much anyway.
He was unleashed on the world but quickly threw in with "Classy" Freddie Blassie...mostly due to the few dollars he tossed the newly dubbed Nikolai Volkoff's way. In the Russian strong man, Blassie found a gent with inhuman strength and unwilling to question him.
Partnering him up with the Iron Sheik, the two were his top enforcers but after a while Blassie sold his interest in Volkoff's contract to the infamous "doctor of style" Slick. In 1987, the Iron Sheik was brought to justice. Slick decided to add another Russian to the mix and partnered him with the not quite as infamous (or Russian) Boris Zhukov. The team stayed together for most of the 80's before Volkoff's programing went a bit off kilter and his love of all things Russian was replaced with all things American.
Volkoff decided to see the world, but he found himself broke. In stepped "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase but that account is settled elsewhere.
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