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Another chapter, another issue, another episode of QA with Koloff: Questions and Answers, where you might get a personal phone call from the Russian nightmare. And you get the opportunity to ask me a question or two that you've always just wondered. It could be about anything. Could be about wrestling, could be about life, could be about ministry, about family. But with me today, all the way from the bluegrass state of Kentucky, Eric Bollock.
Eric, welcome to Q and A with Koloff. Thank you for having me.
Well, it's great to have you with us. And you're over there in I think Somerset, Kentucky, is that right? That is correct.
Now, how long how long you been in in Somerset? We moved here to Somerset four years ago from Atlanta, Georgia.
Now, are you an Atlanta guy or you were just living in Atlanta? Like, where did you grow up? I pretty much grew up in Atlanta. We moved my family moved us from Indianapolis to Atlanta when I was ten years old.
So I lived in Atlanta area for probably close to forty years, excluding the time I was in the Marines. But yeah, grew up in Atlanta and lived there as an adult. And uh Now now in in the Marines did uh how long were you in in in the service? four years and it was all at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Camp Lejeune.
I have heard of that. Being a well I I'm a c just like you moved to Georgia I I spent about 40 years now in in the Carolinas, so I guess I'm a Carolinian, you know.
So uh so they say now now you are uh and and just correct me if I'm wrong, but uh you did you grow up w watching a little wrestling down there in Georgia? Yeah, we definitely talked about this with some of the guys there, especially my battle buddy. But yeah, I grew up like when I was 10, we didn't have any cable or anything. But when we moved down to Georgia we had the super station 17 and they had You know, they had the Georgia Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling on down there. 605 on Saturday night, right?
That's correct. It's like which I always found funny. I'm like, why is 605? But, well, hey, people are going to remember that. Right?
And they did. They did. 605 Georgia, Georgia Championship Wrestling, 605, Gordon Soli and Dusty Rhodes.
So who was your favorite? I was sitting in Nikita Koloff, Eric. Who was your favorite wrestlers growing up? Uh so number one, Dusty. And definitely hawk and animal.
Road Warriors, come on. Yeah, yeah. The four horsemen were another favorite to mine, but you know. Oh, come on. See, I liked you until now.
I really like Ole and Arne, the Minnesota wrecking crew. Yes, yes, yes.
Well, I get it. I understand that. There were a lot of Four Horseman fans out there. Of course, Tully Blanchard and then Ric Flair when he eventually, you know, they formed all that. And And uh so I gotta ask you, so when the Russian Nightmare and the American Dream teamed up as the superpowers, did you become a fan of the superpowers or no?
You can be honest. You can be honest and no, not really. I don't know. I don't know about that. All right.
We'll move on to the Road Warriors. You like the Road Warriors? Oh, yeah. I was telling my buddy Joe, it was always entertaining that they would be playing their entrance music and the match would be over before the music would get finished.
So I always enjoyed that. Yeah, we call that a squash match, is what we call that. But all right, so. The wrestling, though, led you to something called Man Camp that you recently experienced. And Lex Luger and I, God gave us a vision a number of years ago to implement these man camps.
And we do this in Georgia, a little town called Royston, Georgia. And you learned about it. And of course, the fact that you were a wrestling fan growing up kind of piqued your interest. But you came and experienced what, Eric, at Man Camp?
So, the first thing out of my mouth when anybody asked me about man camp is I tell them it's totally not what I expected. What I mean by that is that I think in our heads, okay, well, Nikita and Lex are putting on a camp. We got two former pro wrestlers, we got two guys that love the Lord, and I'm just like, all right, we're going to go there. It's going to be like, all right, boys, look learning about the Lord, and then we're going to go around the campfire. You know, I think that's probably what a lot of people get in their head, and it couldn't be any further from what it was.
You know, Lex was there with us for a few hours, but in the The five, what is it, five and a half days, or whatever it was. The You can s you can see how someone is connected and where their heart is when you're talking to them. And one thing that I noticed immediately about you is that like every time you would be reflecting on a story or something in your past, and you'd you get teared up And I can see you trying to swallow it down so that you can proceed with the discussion or whatever. And I can see you fighting it. And Man to be Um a Christ follower for thirty years and to have still have it hit you like that, it really spoke volumes to me.
A new I knew immediately. Um The The materials that we were given, the time that we get to spend, the way everything was structured, I really could not. You couldn't really ask for anything more. You the way everything is just wait and see. The meals, I was even thinking about it today, the way that we ate, the meals that were prepared.
There It's carried over. And yeah, I know it's only I've only been removed for a few days, but I've already started watching portion control. I've started watching what I'm eating more. And I know that has to do with nutrition, but we get into all those things at Maincamp, nutrition, finance, obviously, our walk with Christ.
So it's those things. And I don't think that most people are probably going into it thinking that you're going to get fed like that. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah. And we try to encourage guys and and and by the way, just a a a side note, um Lex's time with us was kind of changed because at the time, there may be some WrestleMania fans out there, and he's actually under contract with them.
And so they required him to go out quite a bit early, and so it limited our time together.
However, that said, the time he was with us, I feel, and you may attest to this, Eric, was very impactful as he shared his salvation story and some of that experience, right, in and out of a jail and how he came to the Lord, and just a powerful, powerful story, right? And so, yeah, I appreciate that perspective in hearing you say that because, you know, one of the, when God gave Lex and I this vision, you know, what we wanted to do was. Create a camp that would give a man a whole experience of delving into the spiritual journey that we're on, the mental and emotional stability that we need, the physicality, right, of taking care of these bodies to the best of our ability. And so everything we did there was we try to be very intentional. We tried to model, like even our staff, right?
What was your... Quick thought on our staff. Any thoughts on our staff?
Okay. Um Yeah. I'm at a loss for words when people ask me about the camp. Just it was even the staff was unbelievable. Like you really felt like you had guys that were watching over you and were Were there for you, and you knew that they cared, you knew that they prayed.
Um it was th that part of it was unbelievable too, you know. Yeah, and it's amazing to think that some of those guys, of course. Have been journeying with me in these camps since all the way back, David Graham, all the way back to 2011, Joshua Gillum, 2013, Todd Davis, right around that same time frame. Any one of those three guys have been on anywhere from 30 to 40 camps with me over the years that they have come and just volunteered their time, taking time away from their family, time away from their job. And their heart is they just want to sow into other men, pour into other men like Eric, and help share some of their life experience that can.
Just help Eric as a man, as a husband, as a dad, as a granddad, right? And so I really appreciate you sharing those insights because it's for our listeners out there, maybe you aren't familiar with the man camp or heard maybe a little bit about it. I think you just shared some.
some really great insight. And the last thing I'll say is, guys do come into camp, like you were even saying, I had certain expectations and one might say, wow, this This exceeded any expectation I might have had, right? Would you say that? No doubt. No doubt.
there's there's stuff that I hadn't came out of there with that I I'll carry it. Our fast day to me was phenomenal. Obviously, I'm not going to get to take time away from from everything for a five day time span. But I think that a good fast and maybe one day, maybe even a couple of hours, go ahead and do the fast and then just getting away from everything taking your Bible, taking a notebook and just getting away and praying, spending a a day, what you know, whatever a time slot allows to spend that time praying and reading and quiet, no cell phone, just Um Yeah.
Well, I know I can tell you're at a loss of words. But let me say for our listeners, you know, the goal and objective is I try to encourage people, don't come in with any expectations. In fact, you're going to say, well, you know, I didn't know a whole lot come in.
Well, that's intentional too, because we don't want to ruin or build any false expectations for somebody.
So we just encourage these guys, go back home and just look at your buddy and go, you just need to go. You just need to go. What don't you do there? You just need to go. You need to go and experience it for yourself.
Would you agree with that? 100%. That's actually the first thing that came out of my mouth when I got together with some every Saturday, I have a group of about five or six men that we get together on Saturday mornings, and we have a study time. And then obviously, we have a time to kind of catch up on stuff throughout the week. But This Saturday, we spent that time at at our church's youth building cleaning out some rooms to make room for some new classes in there.
And when I saw those guys, that was the first thing that came out of my mouth. Like, I don't even know what to tell you guys. You just need to go to, if you have not been to this, you need to go. Just go. Just go and experience it for yourself, right?
So, that's pretty amazing.
Well, I appreciate you sharing that.
Well, it is QA with Koloff, and I don't want to run out of time, but I do want to give you the opportunity to ask me a couple questions.
So, let's turn the corner here. And what's your first question for me this afternoon? All right. I'm kicking it off with a wrestling question.
So we have a mutual friend In the Koloff dynasty, he would be Alexander Koloff, aka Tyson Dean, aka. I'm not going to say his real name. Um all good, yes. Um how did that whole Holof dynasty with him and Jeff Come together.
So, yeah, great question. And which, by the way, I'm sure you know, but he's a man camp alumni as well. And he's come back and served on staff several times as well.
So just a quick backstory on that. In fact, currently, right now, in 2026, We are on a Koloff family tour. And by that, meaning we've guys who have wrestled under the Koloff name, we're on tour honoring the name Ivan Koloff, who is kind of a mentor to all of us in a way. And of course, I adopted the name Nikita Koloff back in 1984. I won't go into that full story.
If you want the full story, just go on my website or go to Amazon, download the book on Audible, or go to my website, koloff.net, and order the book, and you'll get a personally autographed copy from it. From me, if you want the full story. But that said, I teamed up with Ivan back in 1984. The Russian Bear became the Russian nightmare. Fast forward, I team up with Dusty Rhodes.
We become the superpowers. Ivan goes off into the independent circuit and teams up with Vladimir Koloff, and they travel about seven years together, I think, to six different countries and ECW and some other things. And then from there, fast forward. I meet Neil Koloff, who's wrestling under a different name for about 20 years. He approaches me, actually, Eric, with the idea of becoming a Koloff.
And he just had a real respect for the Koloff name and knew Ivan and his wife very well. And he said, What are your thoughts? And I didn't jump on it immediately. We had a lengthy discussion, I'd say, over the course of a year before I really thought. And then, in turn, he knew Tyson.
And so I actually got those guys together. We got together a few times, put them in the gym, put them through some grueling workouts in the gym, and then put them in a ring and surprise attack in the ring to see how they would handle that. They thought they were just going to get in there and kind of wrestle each other. But I had a tag team kind of already off in the rafters who hit the ring and attacked the. Them and we filmed all this.
We did some little indie video vignettes. And all said and done, I felt comfortable with christening them as Alexander Koloff and Neil Koloff. And that's how the team was formed. They did mostly independent work. I did take him down to Billy Corgan's NWA for a tryout to see if Corgan would be interested in having him in the NWA.
But that said. That's how it all came about. And now, fast forward to 2026, and we're on the Koloff Family Tour. And so keep your eyes open. We've already been to Las Vegas and New York.
We're going to be up in New England, New Jersey, St. Louis, and a host of other places. And, Eric, later this year, I'll just drop a little secret here. We're going to have some action figures, some Koloff action figures coming out later this year, the first of next year. Yeah.
Yeah. Great question. That's a great question. I wasn't going to pass that one up. That was a good one.
All right. Well, we got time for at least one more, anyway. What's your second question for me? Um Two-part, I guess.
So, who were some of your greatest spiritual influences? In your early walks, and who do you listen to now, whether it be preachers or podcasts? Great question, great question. Because I am one, you know, just like let me first go back to the wrestling world, because Ivan became a real mentor in teaching me the ropes, pun intended there, of wrestling. Again, People who don't know that full back story, you know, entered into my first match, having never been in a ring and had no amateur wrestling background.
But Ivan and Don Kernodle, the world tag team champions at the time, took me under the wing and began to mentor me in not only the mechanics but the psychology of old school wrestling.
Well, I leave wrestling fast forward. I leave wrestling at age 34, just shy of a year after leaving wrestling. I give my life to the Lord. And I'm an all-in kind of guy. If you don't, you spend any time around me, you're going to know I'm all in.
Whether it was weightlifting, 55 years later, still, I was up in the gym this morning at whatever, six, seven o'clock, whatever it was. I'm an all-in kind of guy. Football, all in. Wrestling, want to be a champion, eight-time world champion, right? Give my life to the Lord.
I'm not just going to warm a pew and sit on my blessed assurance on Sunday mornings, right? I'm like, what could I do? And so the first five years, Eric, I was, if the church doors were open, I was there. I went on several. Trips, building trips with groups of guys to build churches and build Bible colleges.
My first trip to Africa to build a church, down to the islands of Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao. Took three trips overseas to South America, Moldova, and Singapore with my daughter's youth as a chaperone.
So I just went to get my hands dirty, right? And spent about five years being a disciple. Tom Widden was the pastor of that church at the time, the lead pastor. Jay Stewart was an associate on staff of that church where I got saved. Jay Stewart is still my pastor today, 30 something years later.
And Jay and I meet every single month. uh at his office usually we we or or a restaurant and we just spend some time together uh just sharpening Proverbs twenty seven seventeen as iron sharpens iron.
So one man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
So Jay and I spend time sharpening our swords with each other every single month and have done that for a period of years. In addition to that, I've been fortunate to have a number of other mentors in my life over the years and accountability. buddies One might say battle buddies. Ed Bowman, who has helped. Lex Luger is a battle buddy.
Um. And Ronnie Raven, who Ronnie lives out in the St. Louis area. He's like a spiritual father. He has been in ministry for 60 years, Eric.
Wow. And he has documented, like documentation of over 10,000 sermons that he has preached. And so he's a spiritual father of mine. And then, last but not least, two-part question you said. Currently, currently, currently, two-party.
Two guys immediately pop into my mind. One by the name of Alistair Begg. He pastored a church for years up in Cleveland, Ohio. Just came across him online.
So he's like a mentor from afar, you might say. He's Scottish.
So I love the accent.
Okay. I'm Scottish. I got a part. My mom was born on the English-Scottish border.
So there's a lot of Irish, Scottish, English, Swedish. For the record, no Russian in me. Not a drop of Russian in me. I know. I just shattered, just burst your bubble, Eric, didn't I?
And uh. But but Alistair, I mean, if I've listened to what I was listening this morning, four o'clock this morning, listening to one of Alistair's sermons. And then the other guy more recent is a guy by the name of Alan Jackson. Not the country western singer for the record. Allen is actually spelt differently, but he runs a massive church out of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, called I think World Outreach.
If I've listened to one of his sermons, I've listened to Hundreds of hours of his sermons now. And I just like his approach, man. I just like his delivery and his style. And actually, a couple years ago, got the privilege of meeting him and his wife just briefly. And I told him, I said, hey, I'm an admirer from afar.
We've never met, but I've watched hundreds of hours of your sermons and just want you to know, you know, you're making a difference in my life. And so. Currently, those are probably two of the favorites. And last but not least, how can you not like the Reverend Billy Graham? I mean, his message is timeless, right?
Timeless. Timeless. And so, from time to time, I'll watch some of Reverend Graham's sermons as well.
So, what a great question, man. I don't think I've ever been asked that before. Yeah. It's important, Tammy, you learn from your mentors, right? Yep.
A absolutely. I'll give you one little sidebar caveat. Not excuse me, not anything to do with the Spiritual journey or weightlifting or or football or wrestling or any of that, right? Um in business. 'Cause I have I'm a big believer in MSI, multiple streams of income.
I've owned health clubs in the past and been involved in currently nutrition business. One of my favorite all time mentors in the business world No longer with us. But his name was Jim Rohn. That's R-O-H-N, Jim Rohn. Man, Eric, if I've listened to one of his messages, I've listened to hundreds of hours of Jim Rohn.
And just his delivery and actually how he could weave scripture into his presentation to corporations and just his motivation and inspiration. I just marvel at that. And so, for those of you out there in the business world, you might look up Jim Roan, and I assure you you can learn some things from Jim when it comes to the marketplace.
So, well, Eric, we're just about out of time, but man, you've been such a blessing. It's been fun getting to know you and spend that time with you at Man Camp. And I just want to encourage our listeners out there. If something Eric has said or through our conversations or questions, Go to man camp. Dot info.
That's mancamp.info. You know, if you're a military guy, law enforcement, EMS, Pastor a church, we've got scholar automatic scholarships for you to get you to camp. If you're none of those things, But you have a financial need. We are not. gonna let money be a reason you can't come and experience Man camp.
So be sure to check that out. Eric, appreciate you being on the show today. Thank you. I greatly appreciate the opportunity. Eric Bullock, Somerset, Kentucky.
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