Post by CW .org .info .net on Mar 27, 2023 12:48:27 GMT -6
Nikita Intv
* first and foremost is the ministry. I'm heavily involved in ministry and travelling globally and so far, to date,
75 different nations. Using wrestling as a platform to share what the Lord did to my life in 1993 as I gave my
life to Christ. The transformation began and so that's a part of what I'm doing. In fact, I was just recently
with the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and The Total Package Lex Luger and we were down in the Bahamas
together. Lex and I were in the prison there in Nassau not because we were arrested or anything, but to share
our stories. So they actually let us out when we were done, so that was a good thing."
* about the rumors he was approached to join the WWF in the mid 1980s. Koloff answers with a surprising story.
"The closest I came was when Krusher Kruschev, Barry Darsow, was with us as our third man. He made it
known that he was going to go to New York and he wanted me to go with him and he wanted me to become
his partner for a team that would be called Demolition. As he approached me with that, it wasn't a belaboring
decision because, as we alluded to earlier, I worked extremely hard on developing the character of
Nikita Koloff and the thought of just throwing that in the trash can and taking on this whole new persona,
this whole new character, quite frankly didn't appeal to me because of all the time I put into this character
and knowing it would just be over.
Koloff says that he's unsure when Bill Eadie officially joined the group. All he knows is that he was
originally approached on it.
* WWF has never contacted him. any calls for DVD commentary? Has that happened? Nikita says no.
"It actually fascinates me because I haven't. In fact, just recently, the one and only wrestling figure
of Nikita Koloff has become available through the (WWE) Legends Classics or whatever they're called.
Through Jakks or whatever. I know the guys asked me to come out to California and do the thing.
They told me then there had been three to four to five years that they approached Vince about doing a
Nikita Koloff figure and every time he said, (abruptly) "No." I mean just flat out. No.
And then a couple of years ago, they were persistent and just continued to ask then out of the blue,
they said it was just bizarre. He said, "OK. That's fine." And so they jumped on it as quick as they
could. They jumped on it, contacted me, signed the contract, and it took two years to get it to the
market place. So I've got a WWE Legends Wrestling Figure that's now available which is humorous
to me, because to my knowledge, and you would probably know way better than me, but to my
knowledge, myself and Steve Borden are the only two guys who never worked for Vince McMahon."
* first and foremost is the ministry. I'm heavily involved in ministry and travelling globally and so far, to date,
75 different nations. Using wrestling as a platform to share what the Lord did to my life in 1993 as I gave my
life to Christ. The transformation began and so that's a part of what I'm doing. In fact, I was just recently
with the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and The Total Package Lex Luger and we were down in the Bahamas
together. Lex and I were in the prison there in Nassau not because we were arrested or anything, but to share
our stories. So they actually let us out when we were done, so that was a good thing."
* about the rumors he was approached to join the WWF in the mid 1980s. Koloff answers with a surprising story.
"The closest I came was when Krusher Kruschev, Barry Darsow, was with us as our third man. He made it
known that he was going to go to New York and he wanted me to go with him and he wanted me to become
his partner for a team that would be called Demolition. As he approached me with that, it wasn't a belaboring
decision because, as we alluded to earlier, I worked extremely hard on developing the character of
Nikita Koloff and the thought of just throwing that in the trash can and taking on this whole new persona,
this whole new character, quite frankly didn't appeal to me because of all the time I put into this character
and knowing it would just be over.
Koloff says that he's unsure when Bill Eadie officially joined the group. All he knows is that he was
originally approached on it.
* WWF has never contacted him. any calls for DVD commentary? Has that happened? Nikita says no.
"It actually fascinates me because I haven't. In fact, just recently, the one and only wrestling figure
of Nikita Koloff has become available through the (WWE) Legends Classics or whatever they're called.
Through Jakks or whatever. I know the guys asked me to come out to California and do the thing.
They told me then there had been three to four to five years that they approached Vince about doing a
Nikita Koloff figure and every time he said, (abruptly) "No." I mean just flat out. No.
And then a couple of years ago, they were persistent and just continued to ask then out of the blue,
they said it was just bizarre. He said, "OK. That's fine." And so they jumped on it as quick as they
could. They jumped on it, contacted me, signed the contract, and it took two years to get it to the
market place. So I've got a WWE Legends Wrestling Figure that's now available which is humorous
to me, because to my knowledge, and you would probably know way better than me, but to my
knowledge, myself and Steve Borden are the only two guys who never worked for Vince McMahon."