Bill Dundee

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William Crookshanks (born October 24, 1943)^{[citation needed]} is a professional wrestler better known as "Superstar" Bill Dundee.

Contents 1 Career 2 Profile 3 Wrestling facts 3.1 Finishing and signature moves 3.2 Managers 4 Wrestlers managed 5 Championships and accomplishments 6 Trivia 7 References

[edit] Career

William Crookshanks grew up in the circus as a trapeze artist. He was born in Scotland and move to Australia at the age of 16. He started wrestling in Australia in 1967 and finally arrived in the United States as "Superstar" Bill Dundee in 1974.

Dundee made a name for himself in the Memphis, Tennessee area where he regularly teamed with Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant for years. Dundee & Lawler ventured to the American Wrestling Association together in 1987 and captured the AWA World Tag Team Titles twice.

As a singles wrestler, he held the Southern Heavyweight Championship belt several times from roughly 1975-1985.

He also had a successful team with "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel that wreaked havoc in Tennessee.

Dundee had a brief run in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions, Central States Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Florida in 1986 where he teamed with Jimmy Garvin and feuded with Sam Houston for the NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship. He also briefly managed The Barbarian and The MOD Squad while in those territories.

He also had a run in World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s as Sir William, the manager for Lord Steven Regal.

Dundee is still active as of 2005 in Lawler's Memphis Wrestling where he has been a heel and a baby-face. He is the proprietor of "Bill Dundee's Club" a topless entertainment club located at Exit 126 on Interstate 40, near the Tennessee River in West Tennessee. He frequently appears on a talk show on the community-access cable channel in McKenzie, Tennessee.

Dundee has a son who wrestles as "JC Ice", Jamie Crookshanks.

[edit] Profile

• Height: 5 ft 7 in
• Weight: 214 lb.
• Birthday: October 24, 1943
• Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
• Resides in: McKenzie, Tennessee
• Other Gimmicks: Sir William

[edit] Wrestling facts

[edit] Finishing and signature moves

• Bombs Away

[edit] Managers

• Ronald Gosset
• Tessie
• Samantha Pain

[edit] Wrestlers managed

• Lord Steven Regal
• The Barbarian
• The MOD Squad

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

• Continental Wrestling Association

• CWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tommy Rich
• NWA Mid-American Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
• AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (8 times)
• CWA/AWA International Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
• AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (16 times) - with Big Bad John (2), Norvell Austin (1), Jerry Lawler (4), Robert Gibson (1), Robert Fuller (1), Jimmy Valiant (2), Tommy Rich (2), Steve Keirn (2) and Dutch Mantel (1)

• National Wrestling Alliance
• Regional

• NWA United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tommy Rich
• NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson

• American Wrestling Association

• AWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Jerry Lawler

• Ohio Valley Wrestling

• OVW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• United States Wrestling Association

• USWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• USWA Tag Team Championship (6 times) - with Jerry Lawler (2), Jamie Crookshanks (2), and Jimmy Valiant (2)
• USWA Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
• CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship (3 times)

• Mid-South Wrestling

• Mid-South Television Championship (1 time)

• Other titles

• Power Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Jerry Lawler

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 192 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003. PWI also ranked him # 56 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Jerry Lawler.

[edit] Trivia

• Wrestler Bobby Eaton is married to Crookshanks' daughter.

[edit] References

• Obsessed with Wrestling profile^{[citation needed]}