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Oleg Aleksandrovich Prudius (born April 27, 1979) is a UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian-[[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] martial artist, {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and actor best known for his time in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 2006-2009 as '''Vladimir Kozlov'''. After making some appearances in the crowd where he would be interviewed and finish by saying, "I love Double Double E," he was sent down to WWE's developmental programs at Deep South Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he would become a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/ovw/ovw-h.html OVW Heavyweight Champion]]. He made his official WWE TV in-ring debut in 2008. He would feud with Wrestling/TripleH, Wrestling/JeffHardy, Wrestling/{{Christian}}, and JTG of Cryme Tyme. He is a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/SantinoMarella. He currently competes for the Inoki Genome Federation in Japan.
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!! "Mauling Tropes":
* AmazonChaser: Once got DistractedByTheSexy with Wrestling/BethPhoenix as a result of receiving a kiss from her while UnderTheMistletoe.
%%* TheBigGuy: As a Face.
%%* TheBrute: As a Heel.
* CelebrityResemblance: At ''Judgment Day 2009'', Santino said that he looks like [[Franchise/TheMuppets Sam the Eagle]].
* UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball:
** At Santa Barbara City College.
** UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball: Well, it was in the Ukraine, but, he did play for the National Team.
* CoDragons: In the 2011 edition of the Smackdown vs Raw game, he becomes one of a set of two CoDragons to Wrestling/RandyOrton with Ezekiel Jackson (the other set being Orton's teammates from Legacy, Wrestling/CodyRhodes and Ted Dibaise Jr.). This has some basis in real life, where he also teamed with Jackson to help Wrestling/WilliamRegal.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "You are physically inferior, therefore you are weak!"
* DistractedByTheSexy: Once during a backstage skit. But then, it ''was'' Wrestling/BethPhoenix, after all.
* FinishingMove: "The UsefulNotes/IronCurtain," a leg-trap chokeslam into a spinebuster. As Alexander Kozlov in IGF, he uses a crossface he calls the "[=Kozlock=]."
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: From the Ukraine, billed from the Soviet Union, and used the hammer-and-sickle logo, even though [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR the Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of 1991.]]
* HardHead: He used a BatteringRam headbutt as one of his {{Finishing Move}}s.
* HiddenDepths: Who knew Kozlov could dance?
* IKnowKarate: Subverted. Prudius has a background in UsefulNotes/{{Sambo}} and submission wrestling (2005 USA open heavyweight champion and USKBA international heavyweight grappling champion), but although Kozlov's in-ring style was stoic and hard-hitting, he was never presented as a shooter nor used any recognizable martial arts technique. This changed when he was drafted to ECW, as he started the custom to wear boxing robes to the ring, but he never became a full-fledged shooter.
* {{Joisey}}: {{Discussed| trope}} the trope for some {{cheap heat}}.
-->"Worst of all, you are from a state devoid of class or integrity. The single most depressing place on Earth, New Jersey. I cannot wait for my fellow Russian to buy your pathetic NBA franchise, The Nets, and move it out of this horrible state forever."
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Wore a red martial arts uniform.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong[=/=]HuskyRusskie: In {{Kayfabe}}, as he's actually Ukrainian.
* OddFriendship: With comedic moron Wrestling/SantinoMarella. This friendship has a shocking amount of subtext, though: in real life, both Kozlov and Santino are accomplished martial artists, and Santino even used to play a Russian fighter character similar to Kozlov's own gimmick.
* PowerStable:
** (in OVW): Team America
** (in WWE): [[Wrestling/WilliamRegal Regal's Ruthless Roundtable]]
* PutOnABus: One of the victims of having his leg broken by Wrestling/MarkHenry after the latter took to the habit of folding people's ankles into chairs then body-splashing them. He never returned to TV after that and was released by the WWE not long afterward.
* TheQuietOne: He didn't talk much at first, partially due to the fact that [[TheUnintelligible he wasn't easy to understand]] when he did talk.
* RedBaron: "The Moscow Mauler," "The Soviet {{Cyborg}}", "The Soviet War Machine"
* SquashMatch: He's been on both ends of this. His first several wins on ''[=SmackDown!=]'' qualify, as they were often three minutes long or less. At ''[=IGF=] [=Genome17=]'', September 3, 2011, however, Eric Hammer defeated him in a mere 2:44.
%%* StraightMan: To Wrestling/SantinoMarella.
%%* ThoseTwoGuys: With Wrestling/SantinoMarella.
* {{Unperson}}: Surprisingly averted. After his release, his name has been invoked a fair few times for a guy that (save for a lengthy and fairly entertaining Tag-Team reign with Wrestling/SantinoMarella) was mainly a mid-carder, usually to put over Wrestling/MarkHenry.
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