Josip Peruzović
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
84
Gender
Male
Birthday
1947-10-14
Day of death
2018-07-29 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Split, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Josip Peruzović
Biography
Josip Hrvoje Peruzović better known by his ring name of Nikolai Volkoff, was a Croatian-American professional wrestler who was best known for his performances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Although the Volkoff character was often portrayed as a villainous Russian, Peruzović originated from Yugoslavia. In the 1970s, he was Bepo of the Mongols tag team, one of the masked Executioners and feuded with Bruno Sammartino over the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship as Volkoff. In the 1980s, he was known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and later with Boris Zhukov as The Bolsheviks. In 1990, he turned face and embraced America, briefly feuding with Zhukov and newly-turned Iraqi sympathizer Sgt. Slaughter. In 1994, after a hiatus, he returned as a destitute and desperate character, exploited by Ted DiBiase as the first member of his Million Dollar Corporation.
Known For
Raw
WWF Wrestling Challenge
Saturday Night's Main Event
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
Mid-South Wrestling
WWE Old School
Demolition: Witness the Power
WWE Royal Rumble 1988
The Sheik
WWE Hall of Fame 2005
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
Tuesday Night Titans
WWE WrestleMania VI
Cool As Hell 2
WWF All-Star Wrestling
WWF Prime Time Wrestling
WWE WrestleMania IV
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '84
NWA The Last Tangle in Tampa
The British Bulldogs
Heroes of Wrestling
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Wrestling's Living Legend Bruno Sammartino
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 2
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: October '84
WWE Los Angeles Wrestling: August '88
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: January '87
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '85
WWE Detroit Wrestling '86
The Best of the WWF: volume 9
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
WWE War to Settle the Score
The WWF's Even More Unusual Matches
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: July '88
WWE Hall of Fame
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '84
The Best of the WWF: volume 17
Giants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains II
WrestleMania
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 1
Tag Team Champions
WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams
Hulk Hogan: Real American
WWE The Main Event IV
Wrestling's Most Embarrassing Moments
The Brains Behind the Brawn
Sweet Daddy Siki
WWE WrestleMania X-Seven
WWE Survivor Series 1987
Legends Never Die
WWE WrestleMania III
WrestleMania II
WrestleMania III
WWE SummerSlam 1988
WrestleMania 2
WWE Survivor Series 1988
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
WWE WrestleFest
The Best of the WWF: volume 7
WWE SuperTape: Volume 1
The Wrestling Classic
Wrestling's Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest!
Daisy Derkins and the Dinosaur Apocalypse
WrestleMassacre
WWE SummerSlam 1990
WWE Survivor Series 1990
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '86
350 Days
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '88
Wrestling Tough Guys
The WWF's Amazing Managers
WrestleMania IV
World Wrestling Legends: 6:05 - The Reunion
Villains of the Squared Circle
Villains of the Squared Circle
WWE SummerSlam Fever
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '86
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '85
Wrestling Then and Now
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '87
Grand Masters of Wrestling: First Blood Vol. 1
