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Spoiler

Height: 6' 4"

Weight: 250 lbs

From: Parts Unknown

Birthday: Mar 4th

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: MSW, WCCW, SoCW, TSW, AWA, NWA, WWF, WWWF, All Japan Pro Wrestling (Japan), Central States Wrestling (IA/KS/MO), Championship Wrestling from Florida (FL), Continental Wrestling Association (KY/TN), Georgia Championship Wrestling (GA), International Wrestling (Canada), International Wrestling Alliance (Australia), Japan Wrestling Association (Japan), Maple Leaf Wrestling (Canada), Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (NC/SC/VA), Mid-Pacific Promotions (HI), New Japan Pro Wrestling (Japan), NWA Detroit (MI), NWA Vancouver (Canada), Pacific Northwest Wrestling (OR/WA), Southeastern Championship Wrestling (AL/MS/TN), St. Louis Wrestling Club (MO), Stampede Wrestling (Canada), World Championship Wrestling (Australia), World Wrestling Council (Puerto Rico)

Finisher: Iron Claw

Signature Moves: Top Rope Elbow Smash, Top Rope Stomp to the Chest, Arm Twist Ropewalk Chop

Career Highlights: -IWA Australian Tag Team Champion (3x; 2 w/ Waldo Von Erich; 1 w/ Mario Milano)
-IWA Champion
-NWA (Amarillo) International Champion (4x)
-NWA (Amarillo) North American Tag Team Champion (w/ Dutch Savage)
-NWA American Champion (5x)
-NWA American Tag Team Champion (6x; 3 w/ Gary Hart; 2 w/ Mark Lewin; 1 w/ Spoiler #2)
-NWA Americas Tag Team Champion (w/ The Hood)
-NWA Central States Champion
-NWA Florida Champion (3x)
-NWA (Florida) Southern Champion
-NWA Florida Tag Team Champion (2x; both w/ Spoiler #2)
-NWA Georgia Champion (3x)
-NWA (Mid-America) United States Tag Team Champion (w/ Smasher Sloan)
-NWA (Mid-America) World Tag Team Champion (2x; both w/ Smasher Sloan)
-NWA Mississippi Champion (2x)
-NWA Mobile Champion
-NWA National Champion (2x)
-NWA Nebraska Champion
-NWA Southwest Tag Team Champion (w/ Dutch Savage)
-NWA Tennessee Tag Team Champion (w/ Smasher Sloan)
-NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Champion
-NWA Texas Champion (2x)
-NWA Texas Tag Team Champion (w/ Mark Lewin)
-NWA (Texas) United States Champion
-NWA (Texas) United States Tag Team Champion (2x; 1 each w/ Gary Hart and Spoiler #2)
-NWA (Vancouver) Canadian Tag Team Champion (w/ Dutch Savage)
-NWA (Vancouver) World Tag Team Champion (2x; both w/ Dutch Savage)
-NWA Western States Tag Team Champion (2x; both w/ Dory Funk, Jr.)
-TSW North American Champion (3x)
-TSW United States Tag Team Champion (2x; 1 each w/ Spoiler #2 and Dusty Rhodes)
-WCCW Television Champion (3x)
-WWC North American Champion
-WWC North American Tag Team Champion (w/ Spoiler #2)
-WWF National Champion

Affiliates: Spoiler #2, Smasher Sloan/Spoiler #2. Percy Pringle III, Lou Albano, Waldo Von Erich, Mario Milano, Dutch Savage, Gary Hart, Mark Lewin, The Hood, Dory Funk, Jr., Dusty Rhodes, Bobby Duncum, Sr., Brute Bernard, Paul Ellering, The Road Warriors, Jake Roberts, Arn Anderson, King Kong Bundy, Matt Borne, The Iron Sheik, The Sheik, Bronko Lubich, Ivan Koloff, Johnny Valentine, Angelo Mosca

Notable Feuds: Wahoo McDaniel, Billy Red Lyons, Grizzly Smith, Sonny King, Fritz Von Erich, Swede Hanson, Pedro Morales, Tiger Conway, Jr., Mr. Wrestling II, Paul Jones, Jack Brisco, Jerry Brisco, Rene Goulet, Dusty Rhodes, José Lothario, Johnny Weaver, Nick Kozak, Giant Baba, The Crusher, Reggie Parks, Brad Armstrong, Bugsy McGraw, Bill Watts, Danny Hodge, Joe Scarpa/Jay Strongbow, Klondike Bill, Steve Keirn, Michiaki Yoshimura, Mark Lewin, Don Leo Jonathan, Mike Graham, Dean Ho, Ernie Ladd, Kintaro Oki, Red Bastien, Man Mountain Campbell/Luke Brown/Big Boy Brown, David Von Erich, Dick Slater, Mr. Moto, Dory Funk, Jr., Terry Funk, Bruiser Brody, Dan Miller/Mr. M, Dominic DeNucci, Omar Atlas, Toyonobori, Brute Bernard/The Brute, Antonio Inoki, Waldo Von Erich, Haystacks Calhoun, Andre the Giant, Joe Blanchard, Ken Patera, Bob Armstrong, Tex McKenzie, Rikidozan, El Halcon, Sputnik Monroe, Ted DiBiase, Alfred Hays

Other Facts: -Real name was Donald Delbert Jardine
-Former husband of pro wrestler Evelyn Stevens
-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 Jardine.
-Despite losing a Hair vs. Mask Match to Fritz Von Erich in WCCW in 1968, being unmasked by Billy Red Lyons and Red Bastien in Texas in 1972, and losing a Hair vs. Mask Match to Bret Hart in WWF in 1985, he continued wearing a mask for the rest of his career.
-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 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
-Former member of The Legion of Doom (NWA version)
-Passed away on December 16, 2006 due to complications from a heart attack and leukemia. He was in the process of writing a novel based on his many wrestling experiences when he passed.