  :for other pages with the word vader, see vader.  leon allen white (born may 14, 1955) better known by his ring names big van vader or vader, is an american semi-retired professional wrestler. white is best known for his time with world championship wrestling (wcw), the world wrestling federation (wwf), new japan pro wrestling (njpw), and all japan pro wrestling (ajpw) in the 1990s. a super heavyweight wrestler capable of aerial maneuvers such as the moonsault (voted by wrestling observer readers as the "best wrestling maneuver" for 1993), white competed as both a face and a heel. among other accolades in wcw, he held the wcw world heavyweight championship three times and the wcw united states heavyweight championship once, and won the battle royal main event of the 1993 battlebowl pay-per-view. although he never held a championship in the wwf, white challenged for all of the promotion's hea
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