TMPToW: Ivan Koloff
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame member and former WWWF World Champion “The Russian Bear” Ivan Koloff joins the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling to discuss his legendary career. Starting with his humble beginnings breaking into the wrestling business in Montreal through his most iconic career moments including defeating “the Living Legend” Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF Championship and his years as a member of the famed Russians tag team in Jim Crocket Promotions. Koloff, who is known to be the biggest missing piece to the WWE Hall of Fame describes in great detail his feelings for Vince McMahon continuing to leave him out of the HOF and what he does to this day to keep himself positive about his life outside of the business and the memories of his one of a kind career. Visit Ivan Koloff’s website at http://www.ivankoloff.com and also the official website of the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling, www.tmptofwrestling.com
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| 0:00.0 | They've worked in and around the wrestling business. |
| 0:07.0 | They've met hundreds of wrestlers. |
| 0:10.0 | They own thousands of DVDs and have watched millions of hours of wrestling. |
| 0:18.0 | They are prime time pause and chat, |
| 0:23.6 | the two-man power trip of wrestling. |
| 0:27.6 | The two-man power trip of wrestling. |
| 0:49.4 | I am Chad, and as always, I am joined by my tag team partner, |
| 0:54.0 | Primetime. John Paz, John. |
| 0:56.0 | How are you this evening? |
| 0:58.0 | Hello, Chad. I want to crush you. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, you're scaring me. You're scaring me into submission. You're scaring me to almost go and find a chain and have a chain match with you. |
| 1:09.0 | Because our guest on the program tonight is the Russian |
| 1:13.5 | bear Ivan Koloff. And what a great interview this was, Ivan Koloff, is an absolute uncrowned |
| 1:22.9 | world champion on every continent in the world. He's a former WWWF champion, and that's only scratching the surface to this guy's career. |
| 1:33.3 | John, what are your thoughts on the Russian bear, Ivan Koloff? |
| 1:37.3 | What a great interview with The Legend. |
| 1:40.7 | Dare I say possibly our biggest guest to date. |
| 1:45.1 | I think I can safely say that. |
| 1:47.6 | The former world champion, the man who beat Bruno San Martino after seven years, |
| 1:52.7 | and you can literally hear a pin drop in Madison Square Garden. |
| 1:56.6 | I mean, it was unbelievable to be able to get to talk to a legend of that magnitude. |
| 2:02.5 | We cover in detail the title change with Bruno San Martino and the WWWF. |
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