10 Biggest WWE Stars To Never Have An Action Figure

6. Boris Zhukov

Anyone who doesn’t know about '80s wrestling might be surprised to learn that grapplers would often perform under gimmicks that had nothing to do with their real lives.

For example, take the feared Russian wrestler Boris Zhukov, whose real name was actually… James. James Harrell, from Virginia. 

Harrell first adopted the Zhukov gimmick in Texas in 1983, playing off America’s animosity towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The character got super over as a detested heel, prompting a move to the American Wrestling Association in 1985.

Here, he would challenge the likes of Sgt. Slaughter and Rick Martel for various championships and even beat The Rockers for the tag belts in 1987. This is also where he would get his very own action figure as part of the AWA Mat Mania collection. 

Despite working for WWE for four years, he was never given another toy. He was best known for his role in The Bolsheviks, a tag team alongside another Russian character Nikolai Volkoff, who was actually born in Yugoslavia.