Drew McDonald Drew McDonald ( born Charles Shaw , June 16 , 1955 - February 9 , 2015 ) was a Scottish professional wrestler . He is best known for wrestling on the independent circuit in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe since the 1980s . Professional wrestling career . McDonald first got into wrestling when friend of his who ran a school in Perth for wayward children was promoting a wrestling show to make funds for the school . Ian Law who held a splinter claim to the British Middleweight Championship at the time ( the main lineage being held by Brian ' Goldbelt ' Maxine ) was helping his friend to run the show . One of the wrestlers had got himself seriously injured two weeks out from the show and his friend asked McDonald if he would stand in for the missing man , like nearly everyone , McDonald was convinced that wrestling was all show and that anyone could do it , but McDonald was in for a shock , he had a two - week crash course before first pro match against Wild Angus , The match lasted 5 rounds with Angus beating McDonald by the final bell . McDonald stayed in Scotland wrestling for another year after that first match , in April 1984 he went down to England to work for Joint Promotions ; the biggest promoters at that time ( in the United Kingdom ) . The next 5 years saw McDonald wrestle against the likes of Ray Steele and Gill Singh . McDonald would also develop friendships with the likes of Danny Boy Collins , Dave Finlay and referee Jeff Kaye . McDonald at one point would join the army at the Guards Depot at Pirbright where he joined with the Scots Guards . During his time there he would met Dave Taylor of WCW fame , who had enlisted in the same regiment as McDonald , as a bandsman on the same day . McDonald would wrestle for all the top promotions in the UK , including armdrag matches with The American Dream Steve Adonis as well as traveling all over the world , wrestling for promotions like Canada ' s Stampede Wrestling under the name Ben Doon McDonald feuding with stars like Chris Benoit . When World Championship Wrestling was in England , Drew wrestled on their show , WCW worldwide , but was defeated by Buff Bagwell . Back in the UK Drew McDonald would win many top titles including Scottish Championship Wrestling ' s Scottish Heavyweight Championship , and All Star Wrestling ' s British Heavyweight Championship . McDonald won the British title when he defeated Robbie Brookside in Croydon on the 7 July 2005 . McDonald would also team up with many long time wrestlers , including Dave Finlay ( in the Catch Wrestling Association ) , Ulf Herman , and Robbie Brookside . Later McDonald would team with rookie stars like Thunder , and Raj Gosh . During a time when both Thunder and Gosh wrestled in Frontier Wrestling Alliance at the same time as McDonald the group banded together under the stable name " The Triad . " During January 2006 , Steve Sonic defeated McDonald in a ladder match for All Star Wrestling ' s British Heavyweight Championship . Throughout 2006 McDonald would continue to wrestle in All Star as well as with other British independent promotions . McDonald also runs his own wrestling school along with former wrestler and referee Jeff Kaye in Stanningley , Leeds . In 2008 Mcdonald started working for Superstars Of Wrestling .