Q&A with Koloff - #5

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Q&A with Koloff, the devil's nightmare. A letter, and I'll put D, and they call me D-Rod as a nickname. D-Rod, all right. For Dalton, Roger.

D-Rod. I like that. I like that. And so you're 20 years old, and I know from what you sent me in the email, you're the Sunday School Director at your church there. Yes, sir.

Tell me about that. How long have you been doing that? I've been doing it for about 20 years, and they came to me and said, the guy that was doing the Sunday School Director was coming out, you know, he's getting older, and he said he was giving it up. So they came to me and asked me, and they said, well, we need a younger guy to do it. And I said, well, let me play about it, you know.

Okay. And I finally, you know, looked up the Lord that was leading me to do it, and I told them yes, and I've been doing it ever since. That's awesome. So do you oversee all of the Sunday School programs and stuff then? Yes, yes. And on Sunday mornings for Sunday School, I do the intro and prayer requests. That's pretty awesome.

And you're only 20 years old. Yes, sir. That's pretty amazing, man. I marvel at it.

Kudos to you, man. 20 years old, love Jesus, right? I love him to death.

I love him. And Sunday School Director, what's the name of your church? Providence. Providence. What city? Providence Baptist. Providence Baptist. And what city?

In Hollywood, Alabama. Excellent. Well, that is amazing. Well, I just, again, kudos to you, man. Age 20 and love of Jesus, that's a testimony in and of itself. Oh, yes, sir. And then the fact that you're serving in the church, that's another testimony that you're serving in the church. We need more people serving in the church, you know. I agree.

So I congratulate you on that as well. Well, we're just going to jump into your questions here. Just going to have you hold you for a few minutes, but I want to start with your wrestling question first. When you said, who were your favorites to work with in the ring back in the day?

I'll start with that question and then we'll get to your second question. And thank you for being a fan, by the way. And at 20, so at 20 years old, how do you know the Russian nightmare, Nikita Korov? How do you know who I am? Well, I watch a lot of old school wrestling.

I love old school wrestling. Okay. And I never heard of you until you were on, at the beginning of last year, you were on one of my friends' podcasts. All right.

He was putting you over. A good friend of mine, the standing one, he has you on his podcast. I had never heard of you until then. And I was like, old school wrestling, old school wrestling, I'm going to tune in and listen.

And then you go to Christ and your testimony and all that. And I was just, you know, whenever, you know, a wrestler, you don't see that much today. Right. Talk about Christ, you know, it really spoke to me. Well, I appreciate it, man. Yeah, I appreciate it. A fan of the Russian nightmare. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you. So let me ask you another question. So then, and I will tell, I will get to your question, who are some of my favorites to work with back in the ring. So you've seen some of my matches on video, obviously, or online, whatever.

And just give me one in particular that, so far anyway, is your favorite. Well, I'm probably not going to be a big fan of who I played here, maybe, I don't know, because I might have had a bad experience. But I love old school wrestling when there's a big guy, big bad guy, and then you got the underdog. Uh-huh. You have to fight up against the big guy. Right. You know what I mean? Big guy. And I'm talking about big bad later. I thought you might be.

Okay. Yeah, it was interesting because he, that was my actual last match was against Van Vader, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Got a hernia that night lifting up his big old booty, about 450, 500 pounds. And he injured my neck in that match as well. But, well, he was a good one though. I mean, he was good. He was a little rugged, a little rough, a little reckless at times.

But he was a good one. So some of my favorites, I'm going to get to your question now. Some of my favorites, of course, you know, first of all, you know, Ric Flair, you know, who didn't love, whoever worked with Ric, who didn't like working with Ric.

I would venture to say just about everybody, probably. But, so he was certainly one of my favorites. You know, so many wonderful matches, the Great American Bash, Starrcade, War Games, battles against the Horsemen and the Super Powers, that's who rode the American Dream, if you will. Yeah.

Right. And the Ruffin Nightmare, the Road Warriors. So the War Games, those are some of my favorite, certainly my favorite matches and some of the favorite guys to wrestle, Arn Anderson, Tully, Blanchard, Rick, Lex Luger.

And there's so many, though. I mean, I could honestly, Ravishing Rick Rude, Sting, Stone Cold Steve Austin. I mean, I could go down the list of names that I really, you know, really enjoyed, you know, squaring off in the squared circle. Wahoo McDaniel, there's a real old name for you.

He came up in conversation just the other day, Wahoo McDaniel. And so those were some of my favorites in the ring. Okay. Then I want to get to your set quote.

We're going to transition here. I want to get to your other question. I loved your other question too. You asked a quote just wondering, how do you personally combat temptation as a child of God? And great question because, you know, I mean, there isn't any of us that doesn't face temptation. That's just the reality of life, right? There is a real enemy. You know, Satan is real. The devil's real. And he comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And so whatever he can do to try to tempt us as a believer to trip up our testimony or our witness, right?

He's going to, you know, throw everything, including the kitchen sink at us, right? And, you know, we all have certain strengths and weaknesses, right? So there's those strengths and weaknesses.

And of course, where we're attacked the most is in our weaknesses. And for me personally, I mean, the Word of God is one of the major ways, one of the main ways I combat temptation. I know I'm going to face it.

It's a reality. I was reminded of a scripture. 1 Corinthians says this, no temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man, but God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape that you may be able to bear it. And so that's one of my, one go-to scripture.

And so, you know, yourself, myself, any of our listeners out there who are battling temptation, we can battle it every day. The Word of God is the answer. You know, it's like one of the scriptures just comes to mind immediately is I hide God's Word in my heart. I say, God, I hide my Word, your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Yes.

Right? And so the more we hide God's Word in our heart, the more it's written. And I was reading just in my devotion this morning, you know, he didn't write it on a stone tablet like he did the Ten Commandments. You know, he's not writing it in ink like it was marked for us in the New Testament. He writes, the finger of God writes his Word on our hearts, right, on the flesh of our hearts. He writes his Word. And so just as encouragement to you and all of our listeners, you know, get in the Word of God, write the Word of God on the tablet of your heart. And when you're faced with temptation, stand on, for example, 1 Corinthians 10, 13.

No temptation is overtaken and he will make the way of escape. Is that cool? Yes, that's great.

Well, D-Rod, listen, I'm going to cut you loose here, it was great to have you on questions and answers with the Russian, well, the devil's nightmare, Nikita Kolov, man. I appreciate you being a man. Let's keep in touch, okay, and look forward to, we'll look forward to, maybe one day I'll get there to Huntsville or down your way or maybe even to your church one day and preach the good news and get to meet you face to face.

Yeah, that would be great. Thank you so much. All right. God bless you, D-Rod.

God bless you. All right. Bye-bye.

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