Russian Team

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The Russian Team was a professional wrestling team in the 1980's that attempted to prove their Soviet dominance over their opponents.

[edit] History

The Russian Team was formed in December 1984 in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions. It consisted of Ivan Koloff, Nikita Koloff and Krusher Khruschev.

They were named the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champions and won the NWA World Tag Team Titles twice. They feuded with Dusty Rhodes, Magnum T.A. and the Rock 'N Roll Express.

They also had many hard fought matches against the Road Warriors, who could match up in strength and size.

During their feud with Magnum T.A., Nikita won the United States Title in a best of 7 series. Then in October 1986, Magnum was injured in a car wreck and his career was over. Nikita left the Russian Team and joined Rhodes forcing Ivan and Krusher to feud with them.

Krusher left in December 1986 and Ivan replaced him with Vladimir Petrov to get Nikita. Ivan and Petrov continued to call themselves the Russian Team until they added Dick Murdoch a few months later.