Patriotic Moments in Wrestling

Say what you like about the booking career of Bill Wats - the old-school storyteller may have made some bizarre decisions, like banning moves from the top rope - but he sure knew how to get an audience fired up. At the high point of the Cold War, when the threat of Russian attack was at its peak, Watts had a pair of unstoppable Russkie heels in his promotion, Nikolai Volkoff and Ivan Koloff, and managed by the traitorous Eddie Gilbert the pair were unstoppable. After the duo had defeated untold legions of jobbers, knocking them into unconsciousness and draping the Russian flag over them, Watts could take no more. Charging the ring, the retired wrestler banned any further displays of Commie pride and backed it up with haymaker punches to the hated Russian heels.