{"id":90277,"date":"2017-02-18T22:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T03:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90277"},"modified":"2017-02-18T22:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T03:42:33","slug":"canadian-ivan-koloff-wrestlings-russian-bear-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/18\/canadian-ivan-koloff-wrestlings-russian-bear-dies-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Ivan Koloff, wrestling&#8217;s &#8220;Russian Bear,&#8221; dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90278\" style=\"width: 957px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13626557_837975649668736_1428266676813470028_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90278\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13626557_837975649668736_1428266676813470028_n.jpg\" alt=\"Ivan Koloff, the Canadian professional wrestler known as \u201cThe Russian Bear\u201d in the ring, had died after fighting liver cancer. He was 74. ( Photo: Ivan Koloff\/ Facebook)\" width=\"957\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13626557_837975649668736_1428266676813470028_n.jpg 957w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13626557_837975649668736_1428266676813470028_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13626557_837975649668736_1428266676813470028_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13626557_837975649668736_1428266676813470028_n-768x770.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivan Koloff, the Canadian professional wrestler known as \u201cThe Russian Bear\u201d in the ring, had died after fighting liver cancer. He was 74. ( Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheRealRussianBear\"> Ivan Koloff\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013Ivan Koloff, the Canadian professional wrestler known as \u201cThe Russian Bear\u201d in the ring, had died after fighting liver cancer. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p>Koloff&#8217;s daughter, Rachel Marley, and the WWE confirmed the death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m sad to wake up and hear of the passing of my very close friend the Russian Bear Ivan Koloff,\u201d former wrestler Ric Flair tweeted. \u201cYou will be missed My Friend. Rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in Montreal as Oreal Perras, Koloff was one of wrestling&#8217;s top villains in the 1970 and 1980s. In 1971, he pinned Bruno Sammartino in Madison Square Garden to take the WWWF title.<\/p>\n<p>Koloff later was an ordained minister in Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>The death came a day after fellow former wrestler George \u201cThe Animal\u201d Steele died a 79.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013Ivan Koloff, the Canadian professional wrestler known as \u201cThe Russian Bear\u201d in the ring, had died after fighting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[15455,15456],"class_list":["post-90277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ivan-koloff","tag-russian-bear","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}