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* RidiculousRepossession: Both in his introductory vignettes and in his interactions with other wrestlers (such as his repossession of Randy Savage's cowboy hat.

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* RidiculousRepossession: Both in his Repo Man's introductory vignettes and in his interactions with other wrestlers (such as his repossession of Randy Savage's cowboy hat.hat).
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** Wrestling/RobConway's French sympathizer gimmick as a member of Wrestling/LaResistanceWrestling was one to Krusher Khrushchev.

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** Wrestling/RobConway's French sympathizer gimmick as a member of Wrestling/LaResistanceWrestling Wrestling/LaResistanceTagTeam was one to Krusher Khrushchev.
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* RidiculousRepossession: Both in his introductory vignettes and in his interactions with other wrestlers (such as his repossession of Randy Savage's cowboy hat.


As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_(wrestler) Wikipedia]], you stinking punk!
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** Wrestling/RobConway's French sympathizer gimmick as a member of [[Characters/WWETagTeams La Resistance]] was one to Krusher Khrushchev.

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** Wrestling/RobConway's French sympathizer gimmick as a member of [[Characters/WWETagTeams La Resistance]] Wrestling/LaResistanceWrestling was one to Krusher Khrushchev.
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** (as Blacktop Bully): Breaker 1-9 9 (a wristlock variation), renamed Barely Legal.

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** (as Blacktop Bully): Breaker 1-9 9 (a wristlock variation), renamed Barely Legal.
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** Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}'s Thief Ant's tendency to "steal" his opponents' moves and finishers led the commentators to compare him to Repo Man.

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** Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}'s [[Wrestling/TheColonyWrestling Thief Ant's Ant]]'s tendency to "steal" his opponents' moves and finishers led the commentators to compare him to Repo Man.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: As Repo Man, he once hit Wrestling/TheUndertaker with a hubcap. It didn't help.

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* EvilDebtCollector: As Repo Man

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* EvilDebtCollector: As Repo ManMan.



* RedBaron: 'Krusher', 'Mr. Hole in One' and 'Putting'.

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* RedBaron: 'Krusher', 'Mr. "Mr. Hole in One' and 'Putting'.One"



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-->''[[TheStinger "My tropes are mine, and your tropes are mine too! (Evil Laugh)"]]''

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* AlliterativeName: Krusher Khruschev and Blacktop Bully.

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* AlliterativeName: Krusher Khruschev Khrushchev and Blacktop Bully.Bully.
* ArchEnemy: (as Repo Man): his former Demolition tag team partner [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]]; (as Blacktop Bully): [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]].


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** Wrestling/RobConway's French sympathizer gimmick as a member of [[Characters/WWETagTeams La Resistance]] was one to Krusher Khrushchev.
**Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}'s Thief Ant's tendency to "steal" his opponents' moves and finishers led the commentators to compare him to Repo Man.
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He has no connection to ''Film/RepoMan''.

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* EvilLaugh: As Repo Man.
* FinishingMove:
**(as Repo Man): The Crowbar (single leg Boston Crab)
**(as Blacktop Bully): Breaker 1-9 9 (a wristlock variation), renamed Barely Legal.



* IdentityAmnesia: [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Champions]] Harlem Heat (Wrestling/BookerT and Stevie Ray) defeated Darsow and Bobby Eaton on the August 21, 1999 ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Saturday Night.'' After the match, Eaton tried hitting Harlem Heat with one of the belts, but they took him out and hit Darsow with one of the belts instead. This led to him reverting back to his previous gimmicks of Krusher Khrushchev and Blacktop Bully.



* PowerStable: (in WCW) The Stud Stable.



* RealLifeWritesThePlot: For his golf gimmick, Darsow was initially going to go by the name Stewart Pain. But because Payne Stewart (the golfer who inspired the name) of died in a plane crash, he went by his real name instead.

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: For his golf gimmick, Darsow was initially going to go by the name Stewart Pain. But because Payne Stewart (the golfer who inspired the name) of died in a plane crash, he went by his real name instead.


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Barry Darsow is a semi-retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Minnesota best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Smash of Wrestling/{{Demolition}} and as Repo Man, and for [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA promoter Jim Crockett]] as Krusher Khrushchev. He debuted in 1983 and would work all over the world for decades. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] with Ax and [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]] as Demolition, a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/mswa/mswa-tv.html Mid-South Television Champion]] (as Khrushchev), a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html NWA (Florida) United States Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/JimNeidhart, a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/IvanKoloff and Wrestling/NikitaKoloff as The Russians, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-6.html NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champion]] as a member of The Russians, and he and Ax were the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ny/nyc/uxw/uxw-t.html UXW Tag Team Champions]].

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Barry Allen Darsow (born October 6, 1959) is a semi-retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Minnesota best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Smash of Wrestling/{{Demolition}} and as Repo Man, and for [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA promoter Jim Crockett]] as Krusher Khrushchev. He debuted in 1983 and would work all over the world for decades. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] with Ax and [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]] as Demolition, a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/mswa/mswa-tv.html Mid-South Television Champion]] (as Khrushchev), a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html NWA (Florida) United States Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/JimNeidhart, a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/IvanKoloff and Wrestling/NikitaKoloff as The Russians, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-6.html NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champion]] as a member of The Russians, and he and Ax were the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ny/nyc/uxw/uxw-t.html UXW Tag Team Champions]].





!"Gonna kick your tropes in you stinking punk!"

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* WrestlingFamily: His son Dakota Darsow wrestled in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] and Florida independents for a while.

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* WrestlingFamily: His son Dakota Darsow wrestled in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] and Florida independents for a while.while.
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Barry Darsow is a semi-retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Minnesota best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}] as Smash of Wrestling/{{Demolition}} and as Repo Man, and for [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA promoter Jim Crockett]] as Krusher Khrushchev. He debuted in 1983 and would work all over the world for decades. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] with Ax and [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]] as Demolition, a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/mswa/mswa-tv.html Mid-South Television Champion]] (as Khrushchev), a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html NWA (Florida) United States Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/JimNeidhart, a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/IvanKoloff and Wrestling/NikitaKoloff as The Russians, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-6.html NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champion]] as a member of The Russians, and he and Ax were the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ny/nyc/uxw/uxw-t.html UXW Tag Team Champions]].

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Barry Darsow is a semi-retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Minnesota best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}] Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Smash of Wrestling/{{Demolition}} and as Repo Man, and for [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA promoter Jim Crockett]] as Krusher Khrushchev. He debuted in 1983 and would work all over the world for decades. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] with Ax and [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]] as Demolition, a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/mswa/mswa-tv.html Mid-South Television Champion]] (as Khrushchev), a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html NWA (Florida) United States Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/JimNeidhart, a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/IvanKoloff and Wrestling/NikitaKoloff as The Russians, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-6.html NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champion]] as a member of The Russians, and he and Ax were the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ny/nyc/uxw/uxw-t.html UXW Tag Team Champions]].
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Barry Darsow is a semi-retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Minnesota best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}] as Smash of Wrestling/{{Demolition}} and as Repo Man, and for [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA promoter Jim Crockett]] as Krusher Khrushchev. He debuted in 1983 and would work all over the world for decades. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] with Ax and [[Wrestling/BrianAdams Crush]] as Demolition, a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/mswa/mswa-tv.html Mid-South Television Champion]] (as Khrushchev), a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html NWA (Florida) United States Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/JimNeidhart, a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/IvanKoloff and Wrestling/NikitaKoloff as The Russians, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-6.html NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champion]] as a member of The Russians, and he and Ax were the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ny/nyc/uxw/uxw-t.html UXW Tag Team Champions]].

As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_(wrestler) Wikipedia]], you stinking punk!


!"Gonna kick your tropes in you stinking punk!"
* AlliterativeName: Krusher Khruschev and Blacktop Bully.
* BaldOfEvil: Most of the time.
* CatchPhrase: (as Repo Man): "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine too!"
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He, Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors and Wrestling/RickRude trained at Eddie Sharkey's school at the same time.
* EvilDebtCollector: As Repo Man
* IHaveManyNames: He also went by his real name.
* IKnowMaddenKombat[=/=]GolfClubbing: As "Mr. Hole In One".
* NoIndoorVoice: One of many practitioners of this promo type.
* TheQuisling: As Khruschev, who was not actually a Russian but a Communist ''sympathizer''. Which is why he sounded less Russian and more like Demolition Smash/Repo Man.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: For his golf gimmick, Darsow was initially going to go by the name Stewart Pain. But because Payne Stewart (the golfer who inspired the name) of died in a plane crash, he went by his real name instead.
* RedBaron: 'Krusher', 'Mr. Hole in One' and 'Putting'.
* WrestlingDoesntPay: As a wrestling trucker as the Blacktop Bully, then as a wrestling ex-pro golfer.
* WrestlingFamily: His son Dakota Darsow wrestled in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] and Florida independents for a while.

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