Volkoff is most known for his time in the WWE from the 1970s to the 1990s, winning the WWE Tag Team Titles on multiple occasions, notably with fellow Hall of Famer The Iron Sheik at the first WrestleMania in 1985.
Volkoff will go down as one of the most famous foreign villains in pro wrestling history with his Russian persona, although Volkoff (real name Josip Nikolai Peruzovi) wasn’t actually Russian and was Croatian.
Volkoff was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 and last appeared for WWE in a backstage vignette with Rusev and Lana in 2014, singing the Russian National Anthem as he would famously do before his matches.
Former WWE star Brian “Christopher” Lawler passed away on Sunday at the age of 46 after reportedly hanging himself while he was currently in jail for a DUI charge.
The news was confirmed by Memphis Wrestling News’s Facebook page, who issued a statement from the Lawler family and notably Brian Lawler’s father, WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler.
Lawler is most known for his time in WWE in the late-1990s to the early-2000s as the Grandmaster Sexay character in the Too Cool team with Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi, winning the WWE Tag Team Titles in 2000.
Lawler also worked for the USWA promotion in the mid-1990s, with several major rivalries with the likes of Jeff Jarrett and others.
Lawler’s last big role for WWE was in 2011 as part of the build to the Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole at that year’s Wrestlemania in Atlanta, then went on to make sporadic reunion appearances with Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi in the years that followed.
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