Nikolai Volkoff
Arriving in the AWA in 1987, he would begin teaming with Boris Zukhov under manager Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie and together would defeat the Midnight Rockers for the AWA World tag team title in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on May 25, 1987. After defending the titles for almost five months with victories over Wahoo McDaniel &amp; D.J. Peterson on August 10, Zukhov jumped to the World Wrestling Federation in October as part of The Bolsheviks with Nikolai Volkoff.