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2023 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame - Round 1

Teddy KGB

Teddy KGB
  • TV Show/Movie Appeared: Founders (1998)
  • Actor/Actress: John Malkovich
  • Why you should vote:: It was one of our favourite sports villains, with an accent.
  • Why you should not vote:: Is poker a sport?
  • In the 80’s, the signature Russian sports villain was Ivan Drago, the jacked up monosyllabic freak who dominated with his brawn. The decade after it was, Teddy KGB, who dominated his sport (if you consider poker a sport) with his cunning. And this ladies and gentleman is the byproduct of the fall of communism; that and Yakov Smirnoff working a theatre in Branson.