Q&A With Koloff- #196

Ladies and Gentlemen, the following contest is set for one flaw.

Introducing first, from another episode, Q&A with Kolov, The Devil's Nightmare. Tell us about your name, kind of a little about your family. Give us some insight here. All right, well I was born and raised in North Carolina. Mom and Dad, when my mom was pregnant with me on the day she had me, they hadn't decided on my middle name. They didn't decide on my first name but they hadn't decided on Pike yet.

And that was my dad's decision. She got to pick the first name. So he was on a deer hunt the morning I was born and on the way back from the hunt, he's looking at mailboxes on his way home and saw the last name wife on one of the mailboxes. He changed the letters around, come up with Pike, gets to the hospital, tells my mama, so I got the name figured out it's gonna be Pike. So it's kind of a weird story but there ain't really nothing magical to it but that's how Pike came about.

That's weird, well I figured there had to be a story there. So Pike is your first name though? No, that's my middle name but that's the name I go by, that's the name they call me.

Oh! My first name Timothy after my daddy. Ah, Timothy Pike Harkey, okay. So they decided to go with the middle name. Yes sir, it's kind of weird. My dad's first name's Timmy and he never liked his name and my mama wanted to name me after my daddy. Well he always went by his nickname which is Bo and he said well you name him Tim but we're not gonna call him that. So it's kind of weird me and him both have a name that neither one of us go by. That's interesting, yeah, yeah.

Well I can actually relate to it. I wasn't a fan of my first name, birth name either and so I'll just tease the listeners out there. They're like is birth name first name? So you'll just have to go by the book or google that and you'll figure out what my birth name was. There you go.

Nikita Koloff is an adopted name. I was born in the hallways of Charlotte in 1984. Now, Pike, so you're down in, so you're still in the Carolinas, correct?

Yes sir. And what part of the Carolinas for our listeners? Lincoln County, West Lincoln and Lincoln County. Lincoln County, West Lincoln, Lincolnton, right? Lincolnton, North Carolina?

Yes sir, between Hickory and Gastonia. All right and you have family down there. Tell us about your family. Well, I've been married 35 years.

We got five kids, two grandkids. Me and my wife went to school together. That's how we met. We ran track together and we got married after I got out of the Marine Corps.

I always started writing letters to each other when I was ever in Saudi and when I got home we started dating and got married since I got out of the Corps and started starting a family right off the bat. I worked in the prison as a prison guard for a good many years. Right now I do private security for Samaritan's Purse out of North Wilkes-Barre. I did stand-up comedy for for a period of time but I was always in a bar scene and when I got right with God I didn't feel right doing my comedy in that environment because I couldn't ever invite anybody from church to come see me.

Right, right. So now I'm working on getting into the ministry with my comedy and that's where my hopefully my career's heading down the road doing that. Well that's exciting. Well let me just say for the record thank you for serving.

We you know love our men and women in uniform and I just want to say thank you for serving and okay I've got to ask I did not know you and your wife ran a track together. So Pyth I'll put you on the spot here who's faster her or you? Well I'll answer that by saying this. Okay.

She's got trophies all over our refrigerator from her achievements. Okay. I was just happy to narrow I had two goals uh or one main goal to never come in last. That was my main goal and I and I accomplished that in that feat. Okay. I never came in last. I never came in first either but I never came in last. Well hey there you go there you go you accomplish it there's something I'm a big goal setter there's something to say about accomplishing your goals that's awesome.

So she's got a bunch of trophies and uh you're still waiting to get your first trophy is that what I'm hearing? Yes sir, yes sir. Well and so so comedy that's it now that's an interesting combination so you've done comedy in the past and I know we have talked you know that you feel the Lord's stirring your heart to to do some I guess you might say some clean Christian comedy then that's what I'm hearing. Exactly, exactly. Nice nice so so you you envision that being kind of a a ministry for you to just be able to bring some humor to some people's lives? Yes sir I'm gonna uh you know some preachers don't like comedy in a church they want to stay serious the whole time other preachers invite it you know whatever you can do to get people to to come to the altar whatever it takes and I want to come in and do my comedy uh and I'm gonna work in a biblical message and during my comedy and the one thing I'm gonna bring to the table for any church that will have me is I'm gonna let them talk to the preacher ahead of time and ask him if there's any specific issue going on in his church that needs to be taken care of that for whatever reason he don't want to confront because you know preachers can lose their jobs at the job of a dime a lot of times if the congregation gets mad or whatever yep there might be an issue with with anything in the congregation that he don't feel comfortable bringing up for whatever reason well I can bring it up right I can work it into my message and plant that seed yep and hopefully it'll be able to reach that person and if they get mad at me we won't matter because they might never see me again anyway it's a win-win for everybody well there is a place for comedy I believe in fact a couple guys that I you know I do I do uh men's conferences called the man up conference where I tie in a comedian by the name of Michael Jr uh some ice-breaking you know comedy as well as a guy named uh Jeff Allen um and so there is a place for that and speaking of of man of conference uh you just a while ago had attended man camp take a minute uh take a minute and tell our audience uh just just maybe one highlight of that experience for you uh if you would pyth well uh I don't know if this is exactly uh the answer you're looking for but it's what I've been telling everybody before I went to man camp uh I honestly believed that I was that I was walking with God I had a great relationship with my wife and my kids not a perfect relationship but a great one and that I was truly walking with God while I while I was at man camp I really didn't know I realized that I had not been walking with God but he had been walking with me all this time but I had not truly been walking with him but I am now and I also realized that I did not have a great relationship with my wife and kids I had a good relationship with them but I found out ways I could improve myself and that's the first thing I did when I came back home was I had a talk with my a couple of my kids and I came home and I came in the living room I just got on my knees and I put my head in my wife's lap and balled like a baby and and we've been so much better ever since you know I found out a lot of things about myself I didn't realize before going but um I got I got I rededicated my life to Christ I'm giving 100% of my life now which I thought I'd been doing before but man can't teach you certain teaches you certain things that you don't realize without going and no matter how good you think your life is and how close you think you are with God my personal opinion is you'll find out how you can get closer to God and how much greater you can be in any relationship in your in your life by your the closer you get with God and man camp teaches you or at least it taught me all the ways to do that and I would highly recommend it to any any man out there now I appreciate it yeah really it's a great testimony and and even for the ladies out there listening you know we got a lot of a lot of ladies listening on the show and and you know you got that special man in your life you know if you listen to it to place testimony that that's part of the vision when when God gave this to Lex Luger and I was was for to set an atmosphere for men to come from any walk of life whether you're out in the marketplace a pastor on a on a church staff or you know out you know plumbing electrician you know a student regardless of who you are our goal was to set put you in a setting pull you away from all of life's distractions put you in a setting where you could potentially clearly hear the voice of God be led by the the Lord encounter him in ways experience him in ways that you never have before perhaps and then go back home give you the tools to go back home and and put those tools to work and enhance as pyth said enhance your marriage relationship with children maybe just your even your productivity in the marketplace so pyth it's amazing testimony I really appreciate you sharing that and perhaps it piqued the interest of our listeners out there if you want more information on that go to man camp dot info that's simply man camp all one word dot info and you can learn more shoot me a question if you have any questions we have scholarships by the way he mentioned being in the military we have scholarships for men in uniform and for those who are lead pastors as well so thank you pyth for that you're listening to the truth network and truthnetwork.com if you are a business owner and would like to advertise your company or product on the 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all mr koloff i like before i ask you a question i like to i like to tell you something and i'm not sure if i've ever told you this before or not because we've met several times in the past at different uh functions um when when magnum ta had his bad wreck back in the mid 80s yep uh i'm not sure i believe you and him was was having a rival at that point or was y'all passed that when he had that wreck well we had had we had had the best of seven and but we were still really still battling over the us you know we had the best of seven i won match number seven got the us title so we were doing follow-up matches you know with that so we were still you know you might say nemesis you know one against the other uh when when he had the wreck okay all right well i was in uh junior high at the time and my my best friend i grew up with his his mama had had some complications and she was in the hospital uh recuperating from from that and going through a form of rehab and she was on the same floor that magnum was on and i've always believed in in storylines and keeping uh character true and i know things was different than what they are now wrestlers and y'all held more stated character more more often than not right but i remember hearing about you and different other wrestlers being seen on that floor going to see magnum while he was in the hospital and i never i never for a second thought about uh you come breaking out of character doing it but what i thought about as a kid hearing about but you going to see him as a rival was the compassion that you must have had to to go and see your rival like that and i remember as a kid how much respect that gave me towards you and other men in that kind of environment to do something like it and even if you got a rival going to my whether it's true or not but to have that kind of compassion to to go and visit your rival like it it gave me a lot of respect towards you yeah and also my son had a shoulder uh he had some injuries while he's in the marine corps and uh i took him with me to see you at a at a toy show where you signed autographs a couple year ago a couple year ago and you could i don't remember what he looked like in your eyes when you saw him but you knew he's in pain and you asked him what was going on and he told you about his shoulder and automatically you reached over and grabbed him and asked me if you could pray for him and with him he said absolutely and he put his head down and you just you automatically prayed for him in front of the whole place but the thing is you was not looking around for an audience you weren't looking around to make sure people were taking pictures of it you weren't concerned with any of that only thing you was concerned with as a christian man was was praying for my son and it meant the absolute world to me and him and our wives because that's all you care about you know some people get out there and they want to put their their uh they want to put on a show for people you are not like yes sir you are real deal you are a true man of faith uh and i know that more ways than one but but i can't go in all i know you ain't got much time but but it really i really respected you for doing what you did my son i know for a fact he respected it having a big-name celebrity like you grabbing him and wanting to pray for him it meant so much to all of us when you did that no even some preachers have not embraced him the way that you did that day and it meant it really meant a lot no i appreciate it and you know you you really hit on the right word you know uh certainly with magnum you know just um and there was a certainly a level of compassion but really you know my visiting him was was out of total respect for who he was as an athlete but even more so as a person and and and that's the thing i want i want my listeners to take away more than anything from what you just said is you know when you feel compelled to pray for somebody you know to do it just i don't care if you're in the middle of walmart you know i don't i don't care where you are you know in the middle of the middle of a restaurant it does you know it doesn't matter you know if you feel prompted you feel compelled for somebody pray for it and and so i appreciate those kind words so all right so thank you for that it really is so so you so you have a question for me pyth yes sir i do have a question for you um um if uh when you when you uh i know you're true to your character uh talking uh in russian and all that around your kids and all that stuff and uh was there ever a time whether it be in an airport or restaurant or or anywhere uh back in that in your heyday of wrestling when you was in character that a kid or or situation ever came about that that made you want to come out of character to like speak to somebody or something like that or were you in character 100 no matter what that's a great question i i i believe it or not i i i in my mind uh had had the mindset of of protecting that character 24 7 so if i was anywhere in public and and and even when i did things like you know we're like well once i became a quote good guy you know uh uh we you know we did some charity basketball games some charity softball games and and it really didn't matter to me what i was doing i i just was so set on protecting the character that i just stayed in character even in some some know this story but even when i went out to screen test for the ivan drago role of rocky four the boxer and rocky four and i'm on pythom on set with sylvester stellone and we're engaging back and forth the conversation and i i not only not only did i deliver the the the you know the the screen testing in character but even offset off camera i conversed with him in character like i did not break character like anywhere and everywhere so and i know a lot of the fans know that but maybe there's some out there that that can't believe that somebody just asked me that the other day you know just you know you know when did you break character i go uh three years after i retired and they're like what like what i'm like oh yeah yeah pastor was asking me that the other day so that's a great question i respect that 100 can i ask you one one more question absolutely we got time for one more we sure do all right uh of all your matches i know you you've got a uh a long career uh and a lot of famous matches you're known for uh besides your matches with lex i know you got all the respect and will for lex lugar um what match or rivalry would you want to be most remembered for that that that um that just engulfs your what you're known for in your career and i know you i know you've had a lot yeah well the two well two there's two that come to mind um well there's uh you know the fans are the greatest as far as like what they've enjoyed the most right and what they mentioned the most and i i guess i'll i'll i'll start with that and and uh certainly what i already referenced the best of seven against magnum ta for the u.s belt is most often mentioned right um sir and and and they'll say often imitated never duplicated i guess since since that time there have been others that have tried to you know duplicate that that same series of matches but you know the old school fan looks to that one as as the premiere for you know and i'm grateful for that um you know my my match is against flair i mean there you know i couldn't i can't even begin to count how many matches i had against rick uh on both sides of the fence me as a heel him as a you know then me as a babyface you know wrestling him good and bad um and then him flip-flopping as well so certainly there's a lot of folks that that remember those matches and and i'm very fond of those matches and so i would i guess narrow it down to to the those two uh maybe they're equally as important to me uh in terms of of my career and and and most important to me is what the fans remember most so i'll have to i'll have to pick those two opponents well i i would agree with you on everything you just said yeah and and to your point though i mean there's there's so many i mean you know the road warriors right rock and roll express and those tag matches with uncle ivan you know against the road warriors the rock and roll express and and then when when sting and i teamed up but you also sting and i working against each other luger and i working against each other and so yeah there's a lot of memorable matches for for sure but as as far as a series so there you go so well pyth you have an amazing story an amazing testimony uh i'm excited and and by the way i want to just say this too congratulations on 35 years of marriage in today's world that in itself is a milestone and uh i'm so grateful that man camp was able to enhance your marriage enhance your relationship with your children um and i can't wait i can't wait to hear more about your comedy career pyth thank you sir and i i have to correct one thing because my wife will hear this eventually and i kind of put my foot in my mouth when i got on the spot a while ago i would expect to talk about my marriage and uh we've only been married to be 31 years this all gone on the way i don't know how i come up with 35 but so i need to go and correct that okay or she hears it she corrects it for me well hey well maybe maybe you dated four years and it's 35 total you know no so well awesome well bless you pyth and i appreciate you i appreciate your heart and i appreciate your sharing some of your story today and uh thank you thank thank you sir i really do appreciate it all right and for all you out there in listening land you know what's coming next go out today and my challenge to you go out today and live a god-filled god-blessed day this podcast is made possible by the grace of god and your faithful prayers support and generous gifts may god bless you for your continual contributions go to koloff.net and donate today if you are enjoying q a with 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