Josip Peruzović
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
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
Mid-South Wrestling
The WWF's Amazing Managers
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
WWE Old School
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '84
NWA The Last Tangle in Tampa
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: January '87
Tuesday Night Titans
WWF Prime Time Wrestling
WWF SuperTape
Wrestling's Living Legend Bruno Sammartino
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: October '84
WrestleMania III
WrestleMania IV
WrestleMania 2
WWF All-Star Wrestling
WWF's Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: July '88
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '85
WWE WrestleMania VI
WrestleMania
WrestleMania
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
WWE Los Angeles Wrestling: August '88
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87
Heroes of Wrestling
WWE Royal Rumble
The Best of the WWF: volume 9
WWE Villains of The Squared Circle
Cool As Hell 2
The Sheik
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
The British Bulldogs
WWE WrestleMania IV
The WWF's Even More Unusual Matches
WWE Detroit Wrestling '86
WrestleMassacre
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '84
WWE Demolition
WWE War to Settle the Score
The Best of the WWF: volume 17
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
Giants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains II
WWE Hall of Fame 2005
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
Tag Team Champions
WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '88
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
WWE The Main Event IV
WWE SummerSlam 1988
WWE SummerSlam 1990
WrestleMania II
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '85
The Wrestling Classic
WWE WrestleMania X-Seven
Daisy Derkins and the Dinosaur Apocalypse
The Best of the WWF: volume 7
WWE Survivor Series 1990
WWE Survivor Series 1987
World Wrestling Legends: 6:05 - The Reunion
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '87
Sweet Daddy Siki
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '86
WWE WrestleMania III
WWE Survivor Series 1988
Legends Never Die
350 Days
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
WWE WrestleFest
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '86
WWE SummerSlam Fever
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 1
Wrestling Then and Now
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 2
Grand Masters of Wrestling: First Blood Vol. 1
