As a kid I loved watching the WWF wrestling on Saturday mornings. The good guys vs. the bad guys and the feuds and battles of all those now classic names of the 80’s. I even was a die-hard fan of the short run WWF cartoon and had the rubber wrestlers to recreate the best matches at home.
Today the Lakewood Blue Claws (Phillies affiliate) hosted the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff. I would love to see these guys at Coca Cola Park!
I am posting two examples of Volkoff’s singing.. one looks like it was vintage 1980’s and the other was recorded tonight in Lakewood and posted by the Blue Claws on youtube.
From this:
To this:
While the first video brings back fond memories of youth.. I really like the second better.
Nikolai Volkoff, born on Oct 14th, 1947 in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia (as Josip Nikolai Peruzovic) was on the Yugoslavian weight lifting team until he defected to Canada while participating in a competition in Vienna. He received training from the legendary Stu Hart and made his wrestling debut in 1967. While playing a heel for most of his career, he later became a fan favorite and has stayed in the wrestling industry making appearances now and then.
The Iron Sheik, (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri), was born on March 15th, 1943 in Tehran, Iran as he was billed as a wrestler. He moved to the US in the 1970’s to partner up with Volkoff and become the most jeered wrestlers in the land. The Iron Sheik was also involved in a few incidents in the Lehigh Valley area but I can’t recall the specifics so I will spare you from that. I believe Jimmy Snukka and Hacksaw Jim Duggan were involved..
So the Blue Claws hit the jackpot with this promotion in my eyes! I would love to see more celebrity visits to The Coke. Can we trade a couple bobble head nights or jersey auctions for something like this?
OinK!
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