In the Arcane (TV Series), the mechanical arm that shoots death rays (and that Viktor uses in the game) was invented by Viktor and his partner Jayce. Viktor, hoping his inventions could reach people across the world and save lives, accepted Heimerdinger's offer and left the Undercity for Piltover's Academy.

Victor resurfaced nearly a year later in NXT when he became Conor O'Brian's partner in The Ascension. and Phantom Liberty expansion for Cyberpunk 2077, please keep in mind that articles may not yet have been updated to reflect the extensive changes and additions these updates brought. He previously worked as Apoc for Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he was a two-time OVW Heavyweight Champion.Bout was involved with a Soviet military operation in Angola in the late 1980s assisting the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the Angolan Civil War. On 18 November 2010, shortly after Bout's extradition to the United States, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's aide Sergei Prikhodko said that Russia had "nothing to hide" in Bout's criminal case stating, "it is in our interest that the investigation . Elder brother and former partner Sergey Anatolyevich Bout continues to conduct an aviation business in United Arab Emirates ( Sharjah) and Bulgaria. During many dives, wearers often complained about hallucinations in the depths, which often led to the deaths of themselves or their fellow divers.

On November 10, O'Brian and Victor's ring names were changed to simply "Konnor" and "Viktor", respectively.

According to a report by Stratfor, an American analytic outfit, Bout served with Igor Sechin in Mozambique in the 1980s. However, in the middle of his attempt, Jayce burst in with an energized hammer and began destroying what he had worked for. While in WWE's developmental territory NXT, he was the longest reigning NXT Tag Team Champions of all time (alongside his The Ascension partner Konnor), and he is also a former Florida Tag Team Champion with Brad Maddox. He will be trying to play safe during the early game and will not have a lot of damage if he can’t upgrade his Passive Core. For the rest of 2008, Apocalypse would form multiple tag teams with Kharn Alexander, Vaughn Lilas and Fang.

He demanded that Jayce hand the crystal over, but the Piltovan refused, and so Viktor had to take it by force. The indictment alleges that in 2004 "Bout and Chichakli took steps to form new aviation and other companies, and took specific steps to register these companies in the name of other individuals. It was then announced that the Ascension would face Axel and Mandow on the Payback pre-show, where they won the match. Hasan Čengić, who was the former Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is allegedly one of his former contacts. He is also alleged to have armed both sides in Angola's civil war and supplied weapons to warlords and governments from the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Sudan and Libya.One day, when playing with a model boat of his in the river, Viktor stumbled upon an underground cave with a hidden lab. An inventive child, Viktor was incredibly dedicated to building things and studying for days on end.