Scott Irwin Scott K . Irwin ( May 14 , 1952 – September 5 , 1987 ) was an American professional wrestler . He was best known for his tag team with his brother Barney " Bill " Irwin . Professional wrestling career . Debut and the World Wide Wrestling Federation . After training under Verne Gagne in 1975 , Irwin debuted on March 18 , 1977 in Mid - Atlantic Championship Wrestling , where he lost his debut match against Johnny Weaver . After wrestling in Mid - Atlantic throughout the rest of 1977 and in early 1978 , Irwin debuted in the World Wide Wrestling Federation on May 11 , 1978 as one half of The Yukon Lumberjacks , where he was given the ring name Yukon Eric and his tag team partner , Zarinoff Lebeouf , was given the ring name Yukon Pierre . Soon after debuting , The Lumberjacks wrestled against Dino Bravo and Dominic DeNucci for the World Tag Team Championship on June 2 , but the match ended in a double disqualification . The Lumberjacks continued their feud with Bravo and DeNucci , and after several unsuccessful title rematches , The Lumberjacks finally defeated them for the title on June 26 . The Lumberjacks continued their success by retaining their title in several matches over the next several months against the likes of Bravo and DeNucci , Gorilla Monsoon and S . D . Jones and Haystacks Calhoun and Tony Garea . On November 21 , The Lumberjacks lost their title Garea and Larry Zbyszko . After the title loss , Pierre retired from wrestling and Eric left the WWWF . Championship Wrestling from Florida . After leaving the WWWF , Irwin took a year - long hiatus before returning to wrestling in 1979 , where he debuted in Championship Wrestling from Florida as Thor the Viking , with Oliver Humperdink as his manager , with a victory over Steve Travis on October 6 . While in FCW , Irwin found championship success and wrestled his final match as Thor on October 14 , with a victory over Steve Keirn . Exactly one month later , Irwin returned to the CWF as the Super Destroyer , and went on to win a tag team match with Stan Lane against Keirn and Mike Graham . Mid - South Wrestling . Irwin continued to use the Super Destroyer character in the CWF throughout the rest of 1979 before debuting in Mid - South Wrestling on November 27 , 1980 in a losing effort to Ted DiBiase . Irwin , as the Super Destroyer , returned to Mid - South on April 18 , 1981 and won the Tag Team Championship with The Grappler after defeating Dick Murdoch and The Junkyard Dog in the finals of a tournament to claim the vacant title . However , the Destroyer and the Grappler lost the Tag Team Title days later to Murdoch and JYD on April 27 . Soon after the title loss , Destroyer rebounded by winning the Louisiana Heavyweight Championship on May 1 . He would hold the title for over two months before losing it to Bob Roop on July 22 . Irwin continued to perform as the Super Destroyer upon joining the Continental Wrestling Association , and soon formed a successful tag team with the Masked Superstar . The Super Destroyers . The team soon jumped ship to Georgia Championship Wrestling , and continued their success by winning the NWA National Tag Team Championship on January 22 , 1982 from The Armstrongs ( Bob and Brad ) . Beginning in March , the Superstar gave his half of the title to Big John Studd , which in turn made Super Destroyer a two time National Tag Team Champion . On July 2 , Super Destroyer and Studd lost the title to The Fabulous Freebirds . After the title loss , Super Destroyer returned to singles competition before he formed The Super Destroyers tag team with his real - life brother Barney " Bill " Irwin . Bill became Super Destroyer # 1 while Scott became Super Destroyer # 2 , and the brothers won their first NWA American Tag Team Championship from Bulldog Brower and Roddy Piper in October 1983 . Soon after debuting , they acquired Skandor Akbar as a manager . The Destroyers lost the title to Brian Adias and Iceman King Parsons on December 25 before regaining it on January 30 , 1984 . The Destroyers would hold the title for four months before losing them to Rock ' n ' Soul ( Parsons and Buck Zomhofe ) . The Destroyers quickly rebounded and won the titles back thirteen days later , but after the match , Rock ' n ' Soul unmasked them . The Long Riders . After being revealed , the brothers dropped the Destroyers aspect of their team and instead began wrestling under their real names while their tag team was renamed to the Long Riders . The Riders continued their feud with Rock ' n ' Soul and lost the title back to them on August 4 after Parsons defeated Bill in a singles match . The Riders won the American Tag Team Title for the fourth and final time on September 28 after defeating Rock ' n ' Soul for the final time . The brothers soon lost the title to The Fantastics ( Tommy Rogers and Bobby Fulton ) on October 22 . On November 18 , Irwin returned to Georgia Championship Wrestling and , with his brother , defeated Brad Armstrong and Jacques Rougeau in the finals of a one - night tournament to win the NWA National Tag Team Championship . The next night , the Long Riders retained their newly won title against Armstrong and Tommy Rich . On January 11 , 1985 , the Riders lost the title to Ole Anderson and Thunderbolt Patterson . After the Riders lost a rematch for the title the following night , Scott faced Anderson and Patterson in two subsequent rematches with Kareem Muhammad and then Doug Somers as his partners , due to Bill leaving GCW , but was unable to win either rematch . Irwin wrestled a few more matches in GCW before leaving the promotion . The Long Riders soon sprang up in the American Wrestling Association later in mid - 1985 , where they lost their debut match to the Road Warriors for the Warriors ' World Tag Team Championship on August 16 . On September 28 , the Riders and Harley Race lost to Genichiro Tenryu , Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta in a six - man tag team match at the event SuperClash . The Riders took a brief hiatus from the AWA before returning to the promotion on April 20 , 1986 , where they lost a World Tag Team Title match to Curt Hennig and Scott Hall at WrestleRock . Death . On September 5 , 1987 , Irwin died from a brain tumor . He was 35 years old .