Friend Encounters is a weekly series featuring friends meeting celebrities.
Once again, I have a feature from the Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling FanFest. Held in St. Louis, it is a weekend of fun with wrestling legends.
This year, one of the legends was Nikita Koloff, making a rare appearance. There were about 25 wrestling legends there, but Koloff alone would have been enough to get Tony and me there. Koloff was a rising bad guy wrestler in the NWA. When he turned into a good guy, his fandom exploded. At the height of his popularity, Koloff stepped away to care for his wife who was battling cancer. Since then, he made a few random returns, but never for real stints. Koloff is a devout Christian, who changed his name legally from Scott Simpson to Nikita Koloff.
I am pretty sure Tony was a bit giddy meeeting Koloff at the SICW FanFest and I can't blame him. Koloff was about as big as it got during our early years of following wrestling. Fortunately, Koloff was extremely nice to us, talking for several minutes. Tony helped the situation by bringing up some specific matches, which impressed Koloff.
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