Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 250 lbs
From: Parts
Unknown
Pro Debut: 1955
Aliases: Sonny Cooper, Baby Face Jardine, The Butcher, Butcher Jardine,
Spoiler # 1, Don Jardine, Masked
Enforcer 2, Original
Super Destroyer
Feds worked for: AWA, WWWF,
WWF,
TSW,
WCCW, All-Japan, New Japan, World Wrestling Council (PR), International Wrestling Alliance (Australia)
Finisher: Iron Claw Hold
Signature Moves: Top Rope Elbow
Smash, Top Rope Stomp to the Chest
Career Highlights: -IWA Australian Tag Team Champion (3x; 2 w/
Waldo Von Erich; 1 w/ Mario Milano)
-IWA Champion
-Mobile Champion
-Nebraska Champion
-NWA (Alabama/Tennessee) World Tag Team Champion (w/ Spoiler # 2)
-NWA American Tag Team Champion (6x; 3 w/
Gary Hart; 2 w/
Mark Lewin; 1 w/ Spoiler # 2)
-NWA American Champion (5x)
-NWA Canadian Tag Team Champion (w/
Dutch Savage)
-NWA Central States Champion
-NWA Florida Champion (3x)
-NWA Florida Tag Team Champion (w/ Spoiler # 2)
-NWA Georgia Champion (3x)
-NWA Mississippi Champion (2x)
-NWA National Champion (2x)
-NWA Southern Champion
-NWA Southwest Tag Team Champion (w/ Dutch Savage)
-NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Champion
-NWA Texas Champion (2x)
-NWA (Vancouver) World Tag Team Champion (2x, w/ Dutch Savage)
-TSW North American Champion (2x)
-TSW United States Tag Team Champion (2x; 1 each w/ Spoiler # 2 &
Dusty Rhodes)
-WCCW Television Champion (3x)
-WCCW Texas Tag Team Champion (w/ Mark Lewin)
-WWC North American Champion
-WWC North American Tag Team Champion (w/ Spoiler #2)
-WWF National Champion
Affiliates: Spoiler # 2, Dusty Rhodes, Gary Hart, Mark Lewin, Bobby Duncum, Sr., The
Brute, Paul Ellering,
Jake Roberts, The Road
Warriors, Mario Milano, Waldo Von Erich, Bronco Lubich
Notable Feuds: Rikidozan,
Bill Watts,
Grizzly Smith,
Billy Red Lyons,
Fritz Von Erich, El Halcon, Dusty Rhodes, The Brute,
Sputnik Monroe,
Ted DiBiase, Alfred Hayes
Official Website: www.originalspoiler.homestead.com
Other Facts: -Sometimes billed from Singapore. He was actually from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
-Wrestled his first match at age 15.
-Was given the gimmick of The Spoiler by Fritz Von Erich.
-The Spoiler headlined against WWWF champion Pedro Morales in Madison Square Garden. At the time, MSG had a rule barring masked wrestlers, so Jardine wrestled without his mask. The rule was in place for several years until
Mil Mascaras made his MSG debut wearing a mask against an unmasked Don Jardine!
-The Spoiler retired from wrestling and lived with his wife in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada
-He was a manager of a car wash and wrote poetry
-He wrote a novel based on his many wrestling experiences over the past 25 years.
-He sculpted in clay and carved faces in the bark of cotton wood trees
-He also volunteered for the Literacy Program teaching young children to read.
-Was Best
Man in Gary Hart's wedding in 1968
-Passed away on December 16, 2006 from leukemia.
