Ivan Koloff

[Necro]

Championships and accomplishments

• American Championship Wrestling
  • ACW United States Championship (1 time)[11]
• Atlantic Coast Wrestling
  • ACW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Vladimir Koloff[11]
• Cauliflower Alley Club
  • Iron Mike Mazurki Award (2013)[12]
• Championship Wrestling from Florida
  • NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Pat Patterson (1), Masa Saito (3), and Nikolai Volkoff (1)[1]
  • NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Florida version) (1 time)
• Coastal Real Extreme Wrestling
  • CREW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• CWF Mid-Atlantic
  • CWF Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Sean Powers
• George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Frank Gotch Award (2009)[13]
• Georgia Championship Wrestling
  • NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (7 times) – with Ole Anderson (5), and Alexis Smirnoff (2)[1][14]
• Great Lakes Wrestling Association
  • GLWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[11]
• High Volume Pro Wrestling
  • HVPW Hall of Fame (2014)[15]
• International Wrestling Alliance
  • IWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Maurice Vachon[1]
• International Wrestling Association (Montreal)
  • IWA International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• Maple Leaf Wrestling
  • NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version) (1 time)
  • NWA Television Championship (Toronto version) (2 times)
• Masterz of Mayhem
  • MoM USWA North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[11]
• Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling/Jim Crockett Promotions
  • NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (4 times)[1]
  • NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Don Kernodle
  • NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Championship (2 times)[1]
  • NWA Television Championship (3 times)
  • NWA United States Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Krusher Khruschev (1), Dick Murdoch (1)
  • NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Nikita Koloff and Krusher Khruschev (Baron von Raschke with Krusher injured) (1), The Barbarian and The Warlord (1)
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid Atlantic version) (5 times) – with Nikita Koloff (1), Nikita Koloff and Krusher Khruschev (1), Ray Stevens (1), Don Kernodle (1), and Manny Fernandez (1) (substituting for Rick Rude who had left for the WWF[1]
  • NWA United States Tag Team Championship Tournament (1986) – with Krusher Khruschev[16]
• Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Alliance
  • MAWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[11]
• NWA Charlotte
  • NWA Charlotte Legends Championship (1 time)
• Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
  • (Class of 2011)[17]
• Southern Championship Wrestling
  • SCW Hall of Fame (Class of 1999)[18]
• Virginia Wrestling Association
  • VWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[11]
• Western Ohio Wrestling
  • WOW International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[11]
• World Wide Wrestling Federation
  • WWWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[1]
• World Wrestling Association
  • WWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[1]
• World Wrestling Council
  • WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[1]
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2015)[19]

Theme:



MSG - Pedro Morales vs. Ivan Koloff




Dusty Rhodes vs Ivan Koloff (Coffin Match, October 24, 1980)




Ivan Koloff vs Pat Patterson




Bruno Sammartino vs Ivan Koloff - Steel Cage Match




Ivan Koloff vs Nikita Koloff UWF 11th October 1990

 

[Alexa]

The best Canadian to ever be a Russian, am I right? Seriously, though I know he was ahead of my time and all, but he was a great example of a "monster heel" without having to have a silly monster gimmick. The man basically just beat the hell out of you, and didn't care. On a personal note, I did get to meet one time at a convention before he passed away, and he was a pretty awesome person to talk to.