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RIP to Nikolai Volkoff and Brian Christopher

Just read the news that was rumored all day: Brian Christopher, Grand Master Saxay of Too Cool fame and Jerry The King Lawler's son, passed away today.  Here's a link to the website that confirmed what many of us read about in the dirt sheets...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/brian-christopher-former-wwe-wrestler-dies-at-46-in-apparent-suicide/ar-BBLdvRc?ocid=spartanntp

This is an incredibly sad situation. Brian had a long history of substance abuse problems. WWE even one time used Brian Christopher in a very uncomfortable segment on WWE programming during the Michael Cole/Jerry Lawler feud. He was arrested just a couple days ago for a DUI, and then he was found hanging in his jail cell. You absolutely hate hearing this about anyone with issues like he had. My condolences to Lawler's family and those who knew him.

My favorite memories of Christopher obviously include him with Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi doing their post-match dances that lit the crowd on fire. Too Cool were a very good tag team in a hot time for tag team wrestling and were proof that with the right packaging that fame can be earned by anyone.

We also lost Nikolai Volkoff today at the age of 70 from apparent health complications involving dehydration from what I've read. Volkoff was the classic foreign wrestling heel. When I think of Volkoff, I remember him standing next to The Iron Sheik at WrestleMania singing the Soviet National Anthem, along with Sheik's "Russia #1. Iran #1. USA- HACK TOE!" As a kid, I also remember when they brought back Nikolai as a member of The Million Dollar Corporation in the mid 1990s.

RIP to both of these guys.


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