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Wrestling career

Don Jardine began wrestling in the mid-1950s, making his wrestling debut in 1955 at the age of 15. He made his Maple Leaf Gardens debut in 1959 as "Babyface" Don Jardine, a protege of Whipper Billy Watson and wrestled preliminarily in Toronto (where he also wrestled as Sonny Cooper) until 1961 and returned briefly in 1964. In 1964, Jardine wrestled NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz on TV in St. Louis, but did not win the title. Maple Leaf Gardens before gametime Maple Leaf Gardens is an indoor arena in Toronto, Ontario, on the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Established: March 6, 1834 Area: East to West: 43 km North to South: 21 km629. ... The NWA World Heavyweight Championship The National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship is a title in professional wrestling. ... Lajos Tiza, translated from Hungarian to Aloysius Martin Thesz (April 24, 1916 – April 28, 2002), better known as Lou Thesz, was a professional wrestler and multiple time World Heavyweight Champion. ...

Jardine also wrestled as The Butcher in Los Angeles in 1964. Whilst wrestling under "The Butcher" monicker, he teamed with both Mad Dog Vachon and Dutch Savage for a short time. He challenged Gene Kiniski for the NWA World Heavyweight Championshipin 1966. He became one of the top masked wrestlers in the Southern United States, particularly in Texas, where The Spoiler was created by Fritz Von Erich in 1967. He famously walked the top rope like the Undertaker would do in the 1990s, a move he actually taught Mark Calaway in the days at World Class Championship Wrestling in the mid-1980s. Gene Kiniski was a professional wrestler. ... The NWA World Heavyweight Championship The National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship is a title in professional wrestling. ... Jack Barton Adkisson (August 16, 1929 - September 10, 1997) was an American professional wrestler under the ring name Fritz Von Erich, better known today as a wrestling promoter and the patriarch of the tragically famous Von Erich wrestling family. ... Mark William Calaway (also spelled incorrectly as either Callaway or Calloway) (born March 24, 1965 in Houston, Texas) is an American professional wrestler, currently performing for the SmackDown! brand of World Wrestling Entertainment. ... Mark William Calaway (also spelled incorrectly as either Callaway or Calloway) (born March 24, 1965 in Houston, Texas) is an American professional wrestler, currently performing for the SmackDown! brand of World Wrestling Entertainment. ... World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), also called the World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA), was a popular regional professional wrestling promotion run out of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. ...

He was unmasked in Texas in 1972 by Billy "Red" Lyons and Red Bastein and identified as Don Jardine, still, he continued to wrestle under the mask as "The Spoiler" in Texas and Oklahoma. The Spoiler also wrestled in All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1960s and 1970s. He became the Super Destroyer and was brought into the Carolinas by George Scott in 1973 and also used the "Super Destroyer" name during his stint in the AWA (1977-78). Jardine was one of the key guys, along with Johnny Valentine, who turned the Mid-Atlantic territory around and established hot singles wrestling programs in what had traditionally been a tag team territory. Jardine challenged Jack Brisco for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship as both the Super Destroyer and The Spoiler and wrestled Harley Race for the NWA Heavyweight title in a main event in Houston, Texas in 1979. He held the Georgia-based NWA National Heavyweight title and was briefly billed as NWA National Heavyweight Champion by the World Wide Wrestling Federation after it bought out Georgia Championship Wrestling in July 1984. The Spoiler headlined against WWF Champion Pedro Morales in Madison Square Garden, wrestling maskless as there was a rule in Madison Square Garden at the time which barred masked wrestlers. All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) (全日本プロレス, zen nihon puroresu) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1972. ... New Japan Pro Wrestling (新日本プロレス, shin nihon puroresu) is a major professional wrestling federation in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in 1972. ... The American Wrestling Association was a professional wrestling organization, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Johnny Valentine (born John Wisniski, September 29, 1929 – April 24, 2001) was a professional wrestler with a career spannig almost three decades, ending prematurely due to an airplane accident in 1975 which left him crippled. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The NWA World Heavyweight Championship The National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship is a title in professional wrestling. ... Harley Leland Race (born April 11, 1943 in Quitman, Missouri), is an American professional wrestler and promoter. ... The NWA World Heavyweight Championship The National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship is a title in professional wrestling. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... Georgia Championship Wrestling was a program that aired in the 1980s on American cable televisions Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). ... John Cenas customized version of the WWE Championship, April 2005-present. ... Pedro Morales Pedro Morales (born October 22, 1942 at Culebra, Puerto Rico) is a professional wrestler. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ...

Championships and accomplishments

• 5-time NWA American Heavyweight Champion (Texas version), 1968-71, 1979

• 3-time NWA American Tag Team Champion (Texas version), 1967-68

• 3-time NWA Florida Heavyweight Champion, 1978, 81

• 2-time NWA World Tag Team Champion (Vancouver version), with Dutch Savage, 1966-67

• 2-time NWA National Heavyweight Champion (Georgia version), 1984

• 2-time NWA Texas Heavyweight Champion, 1968

• 2-time NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion, 1975-76

• NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion, 1978

• NWA Canadian Tag Team Champion (Vancouver version), with Dutch Savage, 1966

• 2-time IWA World Tag Team Champion, with Waldo Von Erich, 1969

• Mid-South North American Champion, 1969

• Mid-South United States Tag Team Champion, 1971

• Texas Brass Knucks Champion, 1968

Signature moves

• Iron Claw

• Arm Twist Ropewalk Chop

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Personal life

Jardine promoted some shows in Tampa, Florida in 1993-94, but has now retired from wrestling and lives in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada with his wife, where he is the manager of a car wash business. He likes to write poetry and is currently writing a novel based on his many wrestling experiences over the years. Jardine is known to make clay sculptures and carves faces in the bark of cotton wood trees. He also volunteers for the Literacy Program, teaching young children to read.

External links

• "The Spoiler" Don Jardine at ObsessedWithWrestling.com

• Page of Fame: Don Jardine / The Spoiler

• SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: The Spoiler