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I heard he was absolutely awful, but watching him on SmackDown!, he seemed decent enough. He's actually somewhat crisp. I only saw him against Colin Delaney, though, so who knows. He did this cool spot in the match, where Colin was lying over the top turnbuckle, face-down (think Green Bay Plunge position), and Kozlov came up, kicked him in the gut, Delaney went flying up, Kozlov caught him, then gave him a fallaway slam. It looked even cooler than it sounds.
I like the no frills approach they are taking with him. He needs a program now, though. Personally, I'd like to see him wrestle Matt Hardy once or twice for the United States Championship. No need to put him over as a monster, just put him over as a Russian bad ass. It's a lot more interesting than the boring monster route.
He should also use the Torture Rack Backbreaker again.
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