Don Jardine Don Jardine ( March 24 , 1940 – December 16 , 2006 ) was a Canadian professional wrestler from Moncton , New Brunswick . Standing 6 ' 4 " and weighing 270 lbs , " " The Master of the Iron Claw " " , Jardine was best known for his masked gimmick as " The Spoiler " . Wrestling career . Jardine began wrestling in the mid - 1950s , making his wrestling debut in 1955 at the age of 15 . He made his Maple Leaf Gardens debut in 1959 as " Babyface " Don Jardine , a protege of Whipper Billy Watson and wrestled preliminarily in Toronto ( where he also wrestled as Sonny Cooper ) until 1961 and returned briefly in 1964 . In 1964 , Jardine wrestled NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz on TV in St . Louis , but did not win the title . Jardine also wrestled as The Butcher in Los Angeles in 1964 . Whilst wrestling under " The Butcher " moniker , he teamed with both Mad Dog Vachon and Dutch Savage for a short time . He challenged Gene Kiniski for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in 1966 . He became one of the top masked wrestlers in the Southern United States , particularly in Texas , where The Spoiler was created by Fritz Von Erich in 1967 . He famously walked the top rope like the Undertaker would do in the 1990s , a move he actually taught Mark Calaway in the days at World Class Championship Wrestling in the mid - 1980s . He was unmasked in Texas in 1972 by Billy " Red " Lyons and Red Bastein and identified as Don Jardine , still , he continued to wrestle under the mask as " The Spoiler " in Texas and Oklahoma . The Spoiler also wrestled in All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1960s and 1970s . He became the Super Destroyer and was brought into the Carolinas by George Scott in 1973 and also used the " Super Destroyer " name during his stint in the AWA ( 1977 – 78 ) . Jardine was one of the key guys , along with Johnny Valentine , who turned the Mid - Atlantic territory around and established hot singles wrestling programs in what had traditionally been a tag team territory . Jardine challenged Jack Brisco for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship as both the Super Destroyer and The Spoiler , and wrestled Harley Race for the NWA Heavyweight title in a main event in Houston , Texas in 1979 . He held the Georgia - based NWA National Heavyweight Championship and was briefly billed as NWA National Heavyweight Champion by the World Wrestling Federation after it bought out Georgia Championship Wrestling in July 1984 . The Spoiler , along with Jake " The Snake " Roberts and the 400 - pound " King Kong " Bundy , joined forces with an upcoming tag team , the Road Warriors , to form the original " Legion of Doom " . The Spoiler once headlined against WWF Champion Pedro Morales in Madison Square Garden , wrestling maskless as there was a rule in Madison Square Garden at the time which barred masked wrestlers . The Spoiler appeared in a historic match against Mil Mascaras , the Mexican legend , marking the first time a wrestler ( Mascaras ) ever wore a mask into a ring in New York State . The Spoiler ' s matches against Chief Jay Strongbow and Sonny King were long - lasting feuds that enjoyed successful runs across the WWF circuit . His " Iron Claw " was the first maneuver to be censored from the TV screen by the WWF promotion in a ' reverse psych ' move to sell tickets . Jardine died on December 16 , 2006 due to complications from a heart attack and leukemia . Personal life . Jardine promoted some shows in Tampa , Florida in 1993 - 94 and then retired from wrestling . He spent the later years of his life in Wetaskiwin , Alberta , Canada with his wife , where he was the manager of a car wash business . He was writing a novel based on his many wrestling experiences over the years around the time of his death . Jardine was known to make clay sculptures and carved faces in the bark of cotton wood trees . He also volunteered for the Literacy Program , teaching young children to read .