From: v070qg5d@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric M Chmiel)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Quiz #2( NWA)
Date: 16 Apr 92 05:29:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <1992Apr16.010734.14987@muddcs.claremont.edu>, byau@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ben) writes...
>about the other russian, how about that guy uncle ivan brought in to go 
>against Nikita..  i think he was introduced as Vladimer Ustinov, but of
>course we know he wasn't russian cuz' he resurfaced a while later as 
>....
>THE WARLORD

   Whoaoooaa!  Let's go back to square one here.  The Russian's name was 
Vladimir Petrov (umlaut over the "e").  He was a big man, but I never heard
anything about him being the Warlord.  Can anyone confirm this?  The guy you
are confusing him with is Soldat Ustinov, another Russian character who wrestled
in the AWA a few years back.  Here's another unconfirmed rumour...I heard from
a friend that Soldat Ustinov went on to become Tony Rumble, the Boston Bad Boy.
Rumble currently manages IWCCW champion Tony Atlas and the Tasmaniacs, but I
don't believe he was Ustinov.  Can anyone confirm _this_ one?  BTW, I would
love to see Atlas and the delightfully obnoxious Rumble turn up in WCW.

>about the New Breed.  I really hated seeing that team not get pushed as 
>hard as it got.  what happned to them?  I know Champion went out, and 
>Royal was left against the Midnight Express or something.  and then
>Champion came back.. but I don't know where royal went.  and then they got
>some stupid guy to make the NEW NEW BREED.
> 
>sucks.
>i thought champion and royal were a LOT better than midnight express with
>stan and bobby.
>they weren't teeny-bopper magnets either, like the Midnite Rockers.
> 
>ben


     The New Breed were a truly great tag team.  And they *were* getting a push
in the NWA.  But then they were both seriously injured in a car wreck and were 
out of wrestling for many months.  It's tough to push a tag team when they're 
laid up in traction in a hospital in North Carolina.  They returned briefly, but
then Royal retired (due to inures???) and Champion continued on for a few 
weeks before leaving the NWA.  I don't know anything about a NEW New Breed.
    Are you ready for this?  New Breed WERE a better team than the Midnight 
Express.  They were like the Moondogs are now in the USWA.  They beat guys
brutally, I mean *brutally*, and you could see by their opponents reactions that
they were truly in pain.  Their flying manuevers were second to none, and their
interviews were classic. They used to do imitations of other wrestlers 
interviews that were among the true classics of interviews.  One time, they did
the Road Warriors so well that in the following segment, Animal said during his
own interview "I know there aren't two young snot-nosed punks coming out here
making fun of the Road Warriors interviews, cuz if there was we'd come out here
and kick their teeth down their stinkin' throats!" Remember, the Road Warriors
eren't even involved in an angle with New Breed at the time.  I think Animal
was so surprised that New Breed imitated LOD so well, that he just tossed the 
comment in.
                                             Those were the Days,
                                                           -Eflow
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