(30 Jun 2014, 10:41 pm)AdamY wrote To be fair, most wrestling promotions have portrayed wrestlers supposedly from Eastern Europe/Russia in a similar manner. Off the top of my head, there's only Vladimir Koslov (Lithuanian - although Lithuania was part of the USSR when he born) Alex Koslov (Moldavian - same deal as Lithuania) Nikolai Volkoff (Croatian) and, of course, Rusev who actually have some sort of Eastern European background. The rest (e.g. Ivan and Nikita Koloff, Krusher Khruschev, Boris Zukhov, Boris Malenko etc,) were all portrayed by Americans. Although Rusev gimmick is very 80's in a cold-war sense, I don't have a problem with thinking that they're superior to Americans because they're from another country. But you're right, it would be nice if he was actually from Russia and not Bulgaria.
Would I be right in saying WWE are using Rusev similar to the way Dolph Lundgren portrayed Ivan Drago in Rocky...Hard as fuck, with little to say and a decent enough looking Valet at his side..
As for Lana, I am sure she is from somewhere like Florida, though I may be wrong there