#3 Nikita Koloff
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The success of Ivan Koloff, who came in as a foreign heel and ended the eight-year reign of Bruno Sammartino, gave the wrestling business a lot of ideas. One among that was the character of Nikita Koloff, the nephew of Ivan Koloff. Nikita found some solid success during his stay in the Jim Crockett promotions and made good use of the Ivan Koloff angle.
However, not many knew that Nikita actually hailed from Minnesota. The real life Nelson Scott Simpson, Nikita showed some great professionalism to protect his Russian gimmick and even went on to learn different languages so that he could keep kayfabe alive.
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