"The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff - SAS CLASSIC
The Steve Austin Show
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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"The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff has plenty to say about winning the WWWF title from Bruno Sammartino, working tag with The Superstar Billy Graham, fighting the Iron Sheik on a commercial airplane, raising hell with Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer, and getting clean thanks to the help of Nikita Koloff! You'll hear about kicking drugs, and starting his own ministry too!
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| 1:03.6 | What's good everybody is producer Sean with another classic episode of the Steve |
| 1:07.0 | Austin show episode number 179 today with the Russian bear Ivan Koloff, original air date December 23rd, 2014. |
| 1:15.6 | Ivan Koloff very much a legend in the professional wrestling, having won the |
| 1:20.1 | W. W. W.F. title from Bruno Samarino in 1971 after Bruno held the title for many years. |
| 1:28.0 | So Stephen Ivan do talk about that as well as just a lot of stories about Ivan Koloff and his time in the |
| 1:35.7 | NWA territory particularly Jim Crocker Promotions and the Mid-Atlantic. |
| 1:40.3 | Also some discussion about Nikita Koloff, of course his wrestling nephew because Ivan and Nikita and |
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