Q&A With Koloff- #144

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That's going to be fun. And I have no idea what you're going to ask. No idea. Very rarely do I ever know what a person's going to ask. So every now and then somebody throws me for a loop, but I do my best to answer the question. But hey, before we get to that, before we get to your questions, let's fill our listeners in on a little bit about who Frank Mickens is. 20-year veteran in television news, and the Lord said, okay, you're done with that. I need you to go out and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. And so we're in full-time ministry, Faith Fire, Worldwide Revival Ministries is committed to revival in the church and awakening in the world. We believe that the third great awakening is coming, and God is preparing his bride to take the harvest field in ways that I don't even think we can imagine. And so we have a part in that. We really want to reach people with the heart of the Father here in the States and around the world. And so that's kind of like the condensed version of the heart God's given me.

Okay. So 20 years in the news industry, and in a storied career, really, as far as a newscaster, right? I mean, you had climbed the ranks. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah, and you had climbed the ranks. You had a pretty thriving newscast show, I guess you might call it.

Yeah, I was the first African American male anchor at our station here in Greensboro. Then I went to Indianapolis, and I was a solo anchor for a brand new morning television show there. And I mean, really it all, and not to pat myself on the back, but they revolved it around me. So I was kind of like this central personality, and I really had a lot of fun. I really had a lot of fun. So you had a thriving career.

Yeah, it was great. And then the Lord, I wake up call one day and said, hey, you're done. You're done in the newscast field.

You're done in that industry. I'm calling you into the, did you ever think, somebody asked me this recently, coming from a professional wrestling background, it actually was a legendary announcer. His name's Gary Capetta.

And I was at an autograph signing with Gary back in my home state of Minnesota. And he said, tell me how the ministry is going. And I told him, he's like, did you ever think in a million years that you'd be doing what you're doing now? So I'm going to ask you that same question. Did you ever think in a million years that you'd be leaving the newscasting world and in full-time ministry?

I can honestly say yes. I almost quit one day and I had my pastor come sit down with me early one morning just to kind of check in. And it was because I was already doing outreach ministry and things while I was in TV. You were doing Bible studies at the news station.

Oh yeah. And you know, doing my best. But long story short, I had had an encounter with someone at the station that I, it left a bad taste in my mouth. And so in my heart, I'm like, I don't need to do this anyway. I'm going to just leave and start a ministry. So it wasn't the right motive. But I, the Lord speaks to me a lot in dreams and I had had dreams over years of periods of time and I was preaching to people.

I was in other countries and doing, so I kind of already had this rubric for it. But you know how it is. God shows you the end of it. He doesn't tell you, show you the process.

He doesn't show you how to get there. So he gave me a little bit of a warning. So he was kind of maybe nudging you along, so to speak. And well, that's, that's pretty fascinating. Now, also since the last time I saw you, there's been a new addition to your family since the last time I saw you. Yeah, our little guy, Ian. Ian is, he's 15 months, actually he just was, turned 16 months old a couple of days ago. And I mean, he is doing his best to hang out and follow his three older siblings who are 14, 12 and nine. But yeah, I mean, I guess you could say we have a COVID baby. I mean, he was, he was conceived during the pandemic. Okay. So I don't know if there's going to be a name for that generation or something, but he's in there. I'm sure they'll come up with something.

Yeah, he's been registered. So, so, cause I think, yeah, you told me, didn't you tell me like one in high school, one in junior high, or I guess they call it middle school, junior high when I was going. So one in high school, one in middle school, one in elementary school. And then, and then the one year old baby, we got one in nursery.

So the church has, it has a different class for all of our kids when we go to church on Sunday. So you got to scramble to get them all where they need to go before, before you go where you need to go. I'm like a ringmaster.

It's a circus. I mean, it's incredible. I've given up on perfection, right?

There's just none of that. Yeah. That'll come when we step into eternity. That's right, brother.

It's beautiful chaos right now. That's exactly right. There's, that'll preach right there by the way, actually. But, and so of course your, your, your lovely bride, I learned you, you met in high school. You guys have been married how long? 17 years in October.

17 years. And for her, it probably feels like 50, but for me, it's been, you know, not as long. My bride is everything to me. I mean, she's so supportive, so sweet, so kind. She's the phenomenal mom. She does more than enough for our kids. I don't know if there are any other guys out there that can identify, but I'm always trying to figure out how to get her to slow down and rest and take care of herself.

So if she gets to hear this, honey, I'm saying this for everyone to hear, get some rest because she's got a lot going on. Yeah. I mean, and it is challenging, right? Well, I mean, with four children and, and, and a husband, right? I mean, there's just a lot and she's fully engaged in the ministry as well. Well, she is a homeschool mom. Okay.

And now with kids at all different levels, there's activities. So Chas helps me kind of when she's available, to be honest with you. I mean, there's just so much kind of coming at us. But yeah, she's supportive. Absolutely. Okay. And I know, I know you, you do not only low, like you're based in Greensboro. Yes, sir.

North Carolina. And, and I know you do a Friday night worships opportunity, right? And anybody, anyone could come to like the Friday night worship, right? That's right.

Yeah. It's all about unifying the body of Christ, worshiping together. We have people coming from all different types of backgrounds and denominations, and we just seek and pursue the heart of God. And we've seen miracles. We've seen God visit us. We've seen people receive all manner of messages, prophetic messages and healed and all manner of things have happened. And we give him all the credit.

We give him all the credit. And really the heart of that is we believe that, that the scripture is clear, that there's a church in the city and, and, and there's a lot of division in the body that I think all of us are aware of for various reasons. They can be theological, denominational, they can be racial, they can be all these different things, but the bride Jesus is coming back for, it's not going to look like that.

And I don't know how he's going to do it. None of us do, but we're going to be so in love with Jesus together that we're going to be, it's going to be hard to ignore that bride here on the earth. But we're kind of part of that move, you know, bringing people together on a Friday instead of Sunday so that we can come together and worship the Lord.

I love it. And, and, and you do, and you go international as well. Yeah.

Yeah. In fact, we're working on Crusades in Kenya and Uganda, and I've got a buddy coming down from Costa Rica next week, and we're going to talk about doing some things in Latin America as well. Some of those will be shorter term Crusades. Some of these are going to be longer, like week and week and a half, two week events where we're doing street evangelism as well as Crusades. It just depends on the country, depends on the church buy-in because we always work with the local churches. But yeah, our goal is to see revival in the church and awakening in the world. We want the church to be vibrant and on fire for Christ in love with Jesus.

And we want the world to see us as they see Him so that they can come to Him. I love it. Have you been to Uganda before? I have not. No.

I've been, been three different, three different trips to Uganda and did a Crusade in Kampala, the capital and, and some other ministry outside of, of the capital and 11, 11 trips in total to, to different parts of Africa. So been a while since I've been there, but may need to go back one day. Oh, the worship there. Oh yeah. As they say, off the chain. Oh my goodness. Over the top.

But okay. So, so before we get to your questions here, we're going to transition, but if people wanted to learn more about Frank Mickens and the ministry, how they could support it, whether through prayer or financially give, where, where would they go? Follow you on social media.

Where would they go to do all that? Our website is faithfireworldwide.com. Faithfireworldwide.com is the best ways to find us. And that from there, you can go to all of our different platforms on social media. We have a very, very robust YouTube channel. Awesome. And yeah, we'd love, we'd love to see you there. Awesome. And I hope you can just pray with us mainly is what we really need. Yeah.

We all need prayer covering. That's for sure. Yes, sir. Well, wonderful.

All right. Well, let's, let's segue. Let's make way for the questions. You were actually throwing a question out before we came on out.

I'm like, wait, wait, hold that for now. But whatever you want, what's your first question? Fire away, friend.

So I've been dealing, you know, doing a really bad job of internet research. Not because you invited me, but because I just, I am a guy who grew up in the eighties watching you, watching The Ultimate Warrior, Hulk Hogan, all the guys. But who would you say is the toughest person you've ever had to go up against? Meaning they hurt you the most or, or, or they just were difficult in whatever way. So, so just kind of physically demanding or very physical when you say the toughest. Because there's a lot of tough guys in pro wrestling. I mean, I mean, I think that's the requirement.

Well, in most cases anyway, but, but, uh, the industry has changed over the years. But back in those days, I mean, the road warriors, right? Animal and Hawk. I mean, animal was 300, like a legit 300 pounds, a legit 23 inch arms. I mean, his arms were bigger than some women's waist. Biceps?

Yeah. Like if you measure, you know, Hogan always used to do a 23 inch python. Now Hogan has some pretty big arms. I personally think road warrior animal's arms were bigger than, than, than the Hulkster.

But, uh, but that, that, that goes to be, you know, we'll, we'll never know animals home in heaven with Jesus. But, um, so they, they were some pretty tough guys. And I will say this, there, there wasn't an island guy I met that was, Oh wow. That wasn't tough, man. When you start talking about, The Samoan guys?

Oh my gosh. Tonga, the Tonga guys, the Samoa guys. And they didn't even have to be, I mean, they were just big guys anyway. I mean, haku, uh, the barbarian.

Um, I mean, you can go right to Afa and Sika, the wild Samoans. I mean, uh, my buddy, Lex Luger, one of the highlights of his career was against, um, The, Oh gosh, the name just went blank, but he was, uh, 600, I believe 623 pounds. Like legit. That's how much he weighed. Yes.

Like for real. And I got to tell this story real quick. Not to get sidetracked here, but, but, uh, uh, why am I not remembering his name right now? But anyway, all the avid wrestling fan will know it's, it was a big, uh, July 4th match on the, like the USS Intrepid or something up in New York.

Right. Anyway, and, and it was this Yokozuna, that Yokozuna just came to me, Yokozuna. And, and he was supposed to, nobody could slam him. I mean, 623 pounds and everyone tried, right.

Everyone tried. It was a big deal. Like they'd show like somebody like, you know, trying to, trying to get him up. Well, so the big deal was the total package, Lex Luger on America's celebration of Independence Day was going to slam Yokozuna. Well, he gets, so a week before, uh, they kind of did a walkthrough on it.

Like how, you know, how it would all go or whatever. Well, what he didn't account for was that he would be in blue jeans and cowboy boots along with his red, white and blue shirt. Right.

He flies in on a helicopter. Well, when he gets in the ring, Frank, he, he, he's like, he was the best way he describes it. I felt like I was on ice skates on an ice rink. I mean, right.

No traction. And he's freaking out. Like he's like, Yoko, Yoko, uh, we, we, we got to call this and we can't, we can't do this. We can't do any like brother. Well, what's wrong, brother. He was mad.

I'm like, uh, I'm like an ice skates. He goes, no problem, brother. He go, you just get wide base, brother.

I do the rest. Wow. So he said, when you go watch a video and like, and he, he actually, he goes, Yoko basically slammed himself.

I love it. He goes, so when you see me jumping up and down, he goes, he goes, I felt, he goes, I was happy because I didn't end up like a wild coyote on the cartoon, like an ink spot, you know? And so anyway, the Samoans were tough. The Tongans were tough, but all that long-winded answer to get to the ultimate answer is the one guy who I didn't really look forward.

I look forward to wrestling most guys, but there was another big guy named big van Vader and, and van Vader Vader for sure was a legit about 450 pounds. And he had a, he had a reputation for, for being reckless and hurting guys on some of his moves. And so there were some that the Russian nightmare outlawed. I'm like, dude, that ain't happening on the Russian nightmare.

No, no offense, but I value my health and my body. And, and so that some of those moves just weren't going to happen. All that to say, ironically, he ended up injuring me. What would, would end up being my very last official pro wrestling match wrestling actually right here in the location of this station. Well, not here on the prop, but in Winston Salem, in Winston Salem, working on wrestling on the floor, clotheslines me to the back of the head. Pinches a nerve. My left arm goes like limp for about three or four minutes. Can't move it. Fighting with one arm in the ring.

Eventually it all comes back. And then going to get that check the next day, reported that to the agent, that injury. I wake up in my lower abdomen's hurting.

I'm like, what's going on? So I'm like, Hey doc, check this out while you're checking my neck out. He was all, you got a hernia.

So picking up the 450 pound behemoth, right? I ended up getting a hernia, end up having hernia surgery. While, while rehabilitating my neck. And then at that point made the executive decision to walk away into my own terms, no fanfare and just never went, never went back.

Yeah. So, so you never had a farewell, huh? No, no big fanfare, no big farewell, big fanfare.

I, I was home rehabbing over Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. And I'm like, you know what? I'm done. I'm done.

So, so yeah, so never, never went, never went back. Yep. Wow.

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Go to www.koloff.net and donate today. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. I mean, the easiest answer, I mean, Ric Flair was one of the consummate, you know, pro wrestler, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. You remember that name?

Yeah, I do. Ricky the Dragon Steamboat was, they used to call him just in the term, like a pure baby face. In other words, people, the fans just loved him. He had that good guy look, you know, and could draw the sympathy from the crowd, you know, and how he would what we call sell in the ring, and really get the sympathy of the people. The other guy was my arch nemesis Magnum TA. He had, although he had a more tougher exterior and a tougher look, but he knew how to draw the sympathy from the crowd as well. And so we, he and I, the chemistry he and I had between the two of us worked really, really well. But Ricky the Dragon Steamboat was, ranks right up there with one of the best as far as just being fluid in the ring and had a great, what we call the psychology of the business and knew how to spontaneously tell a story. So that's what Frank and I don't know if you realize, or maybe you did, or maybe you didn't, but back in that era, right?

The outcome was predetermined. But when I wrestled Rick for 60 minutes, which I did on more than one occasion. 60 minutes with Ric Flair? Yep, yep.

I had numerous, they call it a Broadway. It was because the world heavyweight title in those days always had a 60 minute time limit. And so I'm wrestling for 60 minutes. I might know the outcome, but 57 of those minutes is all spontaneous improv in the ring. There was no, hey, let's go over this entire match in a dressing room. There was like, I'll see you in the ring. Or in many cases, we were in separate dressrooms back in those days in the arenas. And the first time we'd see each other is when we got in the ring and we both knew the outcome, but then we had to tell a story to you, the fan spontaneously in the ring for 60 minutes. That's amazing. And so that was the different, that's what, so when you, you know, your expression, when I use the word psychology, your reaction was, wait, well, is you had to really develop the, that the elite of that era had to develop a psychology for the business, as well as knowing the mechanics of the business. And for those who did that best, excelled to the top and won the belts and, or were main event. That's amazing. Jimmy Superfly Snuka.

Yes. Did you ever have to wrestle him? You know, I didn't, by the time I broke in, he did wrestle in the NWA in his career, but by the time I broke in, he had already moved on to the, what was then the WWF. One of the other guys I would have, I think enjoyed wrestling that day, he was in briefly when I came in, was a guy named Rowdy Roddy Piper. You remember the name?

Roddy Piper, Piper's pit. And it was a kilt. He wore a kilt. He had, he was actually from Canada, but he has Scottish roots.

Incredible. And that's why he took on the Scottish persona and wore the, yeah, had the bagpipes and wore the kilt and yeah. And the things you guys would do to promote matches or just kind of the tough talk stuff when you were doing the interviews. Yes. Was that all spontaneous? So here again, and again, the industry is different now where they have script writers and they write out, you know, the majority, if not all the match, the bulk and majority of the match.

Typically every script, right? So when we came on to an interview set and we're going to promo, and that's really where the money was. In other words, we had, if you had, and they called it mic skills, right? So you can have good in ring skills. And there were some guys that excelled at that. A guy named Brad Ringins who actually competed for the U S in the, in the Olympic games.

Oh, I mean, Brad had incredible ring skill. But some guys put them in front of a camera on a microphone that red light comes on would freeze up and they just wouldn't be able to, to cut a promo no matter how hard they tried. If you, you remember the rock and roll express? Yes, I do. Okay. Let me, I want to get to your question, but let me ask you a question. If you, if you can try to remember interviews with the rock and roll express, did they, did they equally talk or did one talk more than the other?

Do you remember? And if not. One talk more than the other. Yes.

Ricky Morton. Yeah. Did the bulk or majority of the talking.

I never noticed that. Ricky did the majority cause Robert wasn't as, as clear in his conversation, right? His punctuation or conversation. And so he just really wasn't much of an interviewer, but Ricky could carry the load.

That's amazing. Midnight express. Bobby Eaton, I used to joke and say, Bobby, take the marbles out of your mouth, bro. I can't, I couldn't understand Bobby talking to him in a dressing room, Frank, let alone him interview. And if he, if they had him talk, it would be mumbo jumbo. And people go, uh, what did Bobby just say? Like we'd be sitting in the dressing room, listening to it. If he did talk like for real, like Jim Cornette, every now and then would have Bobby say something and we go, can anyone interpret for me what Bobby just said, please?

Oh my God. I used to like, for real, listen, I used to joke. I'm like, Bobby says, I'm like, that's it to me.

What do you sound like? Right. I go, Bobby. English. Please.

He'd go, he'd go, he'd go. Nikita. Oh, wow.

Bobby, why can't you just talk like that all the time? Anyway, anyway, so, so unscripted, any interview I ever did walking onto a set was 100% unscripted, improv, spontaneous. That's a skill. Yeah.

One that had to be developed. Yes. Did you ever mind being a heel? Did you ever mind being hated?

I don't know. I mean, No, I mean, I mean, as a bad guy, that's what you wanted, actually. I mean, if they liked you as a bad guy, you weren't going to be drawing a whole lot of money, right? You weren't going to be drawing a big crowd. You wanted them to hate you and, you know, in love with the good guy and hate the bad guy, because that's what sold tickets. That's what brought you into the arena.

Between that and the interview, that brought you into the arena, right? And so if you had, like, one thing that comes to mind real quick is, is Ivan, like, we would go to Fayetteville, right? Fort Bragg, right? Fayetteville, military town. And Ivan, at times, would say, and I want all of you soldier boys.

I want to see you in the front row, wearing your yellow dresses. Oh, wow. You know, Ivan, I'm not sure how well that's going to get over. But, but see, but it, they, guess what? They hated Ivan. It worked.

It worked. And they were in the front row. And I will tell you this, they weren't wearing yellow dresses. And, and shall I just say, we were number one in their hearts.

Wow. They loved to hate the Russians right back in the day. So no, it, and so I say all that to say it really didn't, it was a mindset, right? So I knew that's what we wanted them to hate us. And because we knew that sold tickets. So yeah. Well, growing up as a kid watching it, I wanted to do it, but I was afraid.

I said, it looks like it hurts so much. Right. And when you read about how long it takes to get there, the training and the stuff, I mean, I don't know if you have time to get into that, but knowing you want to do it and actually stepping in that ring for the first time and going through the training, I mean, how long of a process is that? Well, and it, it, it varies in today. And again, the business has changed dramatically nowadays, including the, that aspect of it, right?

Going to a training camp or like WWE has its own training school, right? And, and, and the number of, of guys and or gals now that, that, as you said, would like to get into it, that actually end up making it or, or, and, or, and, or make a real name for themselves is, is, uh, very much more limited now than back in my day, because back then there, there was territories all over the country, right? About 25, 30 different territories.

Now there's the major federations, right? WWE, AEW, uh, Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor. So it's much harder now to break it into the, break into the big time, uh, and make a big name for yourself. And so the training can vary depending on your skillset and how skilled they see you are, um, as to when they might actually give you a chance or an opportunity and all that to say with the smaller territories going away, it'll really open the door for what they call the, the whole indie circuit, the whole indie leagues independence. Um, and so there's a lot of independent promoters that run small shows all over the country and some do better than others. I mean, they'll, they'll draw five, six, 700,000 people.

I was at one in Ohio last year that drew 4,400 people to just a small little independent show. And so there's still a lot of wrestling fans out there and many of them that grew up in your era and what they call the golden era of wrestling and still love that style of wrestling versus what they, what they see nowadays. But, so I say all that to say the training, um, and of course my story is very unique that I had none and the way I broke in, there's no other story like, like that one. Um, but you are going to, if you have any inkling, any desire to make it into professional wrestling today, you're going to go to a training school, you're going to go to a camp and just depending on, on your skillset may determine on whether or not you get a break.

So, yeah. How did you choose your character or how did it choose you? It chose me. Uh, so the, the kind of the short story of that is, um, Ivan Koloff and Don Curnodle, who were the world tag team champions for the NWA. Uh, Don approached road warrior animal. And of course I recruited animal out of high school to play college football with me. So we were the best of friends and, and he would eventually drop out of college and get into pro wrestling.

I finished my college career and was training for a pro football tryout and, and Sergeant slaughter. You remember that name and Don Curnodle, who was known as private Curnodle, uh, had come up written out really on a road trip from Savannah, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina. Uh, on a road trip one night after the matches, heading to the next show, the next town, bought a notebook and wrote out a whole storyline for a nephew for Ivan Koloff, uh, who would come in and, and eventually Ivan and the nephew would turn on Don. And then Don would call in the Calvary, so to speak the Sarge and Sergeant slaughter and private Curnodle would team up and the, the Russians and the Americans would have this two year, uh, lineup of matches from flag versus flag or world tag team title belts. They're all kind of, so they wrote the whole storyline. Don, uh, uh, uh, uh, Don approaches animal says, ask this, do you know any big guys, friends of yours who'd mind shaving their head and becoming a runner?

I love it. And, and, and Adam was like, I know the guy right now. I just know the guy. And so he makes a phone call, shares the story with me, gives me the number to a guy named Jim Crockett, the promoter for mid Atlantic championship wrestling, Charlotte, North Carolina. I have a five minute phone call, make sure Mr. Crockett understands.

I have no amateur background in wrestling at all. No professional training had never been a ring, said he didn't care, said, be in my office on such and such a day with your head shaved ball. I go, that's it. He goes, that's it, Frank. I showed up the day he said to be there. And Nikita Kolov born in the hallways of Charlotte, North Carolina became the nephew of Ivan. And of course the rest, the rest is history as they say.

So there you go. And he had not seen you. No, no, there was no, there was no cell phones and selfies and any of that. I had a five minute conversation.

I didn't even have a another conversation. I just had a date of one to be in Charlotte and an address. And I loaded up talking about being a risk taker. I loaded up my car with everything I owned to my name, all the money I had to my name, which wasn't much and drove to a city that I'd never been before, showed up the day he said to be there, introduce myself. And he introduced me to Ivan and Don and they throw me in the interview set and said, be in Raleigh, North Carolina about a night. You're going to wrestle on television at the Dorton arena. Have you never been in a ring tomorrow, tomorrow night? That was, that was my debut, Frank. And, and, and fast forward 13 months later, I'm the world tag team champion, world six man champion and wrestling the nature boy, Ric Flair for the world heavyweight title. That is quite a story. That's it.

Right. So, well, you have asked him great questions and, and given that I think the listeners, some inside baseball here, some inside stories that, that some of them have never heard before. And so, well, the fact that my wife knows who you are, tells you that you had a career in wrestling because she was not a purveyor or watcher of it. She knew who you were. She knew the name and I have heard, let me just say this before we sign off. I have had a number of people that have said, I've never watched pro wrestling, but I've heard that name Nikita Koloff.

I've heard that name before. And I remember, I'll say this too. I remember standing in the hallways of Charlotte with Crockett. So I knew I was going to be Ivan's nephew. So I knew I was going to be a Koloff and he gave me Nikita and something else.

And I, to this day have no clue. I zoned right in on Nikita from my history days. I remember Nikita Khrushchev.

Right. And I thought, Nikita, Nikita, Nikita Koloff. That's got a pretty good ring to it. And here all these years later to that point, people are like, I've never watched wrestling, but I've heard that name Nikita Koloff.

And so I like to say, God knew what he was doing. And I don't even want to know your real name. I'd rather just know you as Nikita. Well, it's legal.

It's absolutely legal. There you go. My sister calls me Nikita.

My dad, my dad called me Nick when he was alive. So anyway, Hey, one more time before we go website for Frank Mickens, what's the website for people to find out more about who you are and what you do. Faithfireworldwide.com. We'll see you there. And thank you all of you. You're so faithful to support Q and A with Koloff. Go over to the Man Up show, check out some of the archives on the Man Up show and until next time, live a God filled, God blessed day.

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