Brian Wickens Brian Wickens ( January 8 , 1947 ) is a professional wrestler best known as Luke Williams , one half of the tag team known as " The Sheepherders " on the independent scene and in the National Wrestling Alliance and as The Bushwhackers in the WWF . Career . Luke Williams started wrestling for NWA New Zealand ( later known as All - Star Pro Wrestling ) in 1964 where he achieved a great deal of regional success . Williams , along with his friend Butch Miller , were brought to America in 1965 by fellow New Zealander Steve Rickard , who was also the booker for “ NWA Hawaii ” . Luke and Butch initially worked in Canada for Stu Hart ’ s Stampede Wrestling billed as The Kiwis ( Butch was known as “ Nick Carter ” and Luke was known as “ Sweet Williams ” ) . The first recorded title that the Kiwis won was in 1974 , when the duo beat Bob Pringle and Bill Cody for the Stampede International Tag Team Championship on January 6 , 1974 . The Kiwis lost the titles to Tokyo Joe and the Great Saki , only to regain them a short time later . The Kiwis lost the titles for good when Stan Kowalski and Duke Savage defeated them and kept the titles away from them in subsequent rematches . The Sheepherders . After leaving Stampede Wrestling , the Kiwis began doing double duty in NWA Pacific Northwest as well as the Canadian - based International All - Star Wrestling around 1979 - 1980 as " the Kiwi Sheepherders " . In 1979 , the team won the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship on three occasions between 21 July and 5 August 1980 , before they left the territory . On 22 September , the Sheepherders lost the gold to Dutch Savage and Stan Stasiak , only to regain them a week later . On 11 February 1980 , the Sheepherders became double champions when they downed Dutch Savage and Stan Stasiak once again , this time for the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship . Top faces Rick Martel and “ Rowdy ” Roddy Piper teamed up in May , to take the NWA Canadian tag title from the Sheepherders and , in effect , run the duo out of the Northwest region by August , gaining the NWA Pacific Northwest tag titles when the Sheepherders left the promotion . The next stop for the Sheepherders was a brief stay in the Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling territory run by Jim Crockett . In MACW , the two won the NWA Mid - Atlantic Tag Team Championship by beating Matt Borne and Buzz Sawyer for the gold . The Sheepherders held onto the gold for close to three months before dropping it to Dewey Robertson and George Wells on 12 December . After losing the titles , Luke and Butch headed for warmer weather as they traveled to Puerto Rico and began working for the World Wrestling Council as Los Pastores . While in Puerto Rico , the team won the WWC North American Tag Team Championship twice while touring the island . The New Sheepherder . After the team left WWC , Butch decided that he wanted to return closer to home and went to Australia to wrestle . Luke remained in the United States determined to keep the “ Sheepherders ” name on everyone ’ s lips by teaming up with “ Lord ” Jonathan Boyd ( formerly of the Royal Kangaroos ) . The duo of Williams and Boyd quickly gained a reputation of one of the most violent , hard hitting teams in the business . One of the first people to feel the wrath of the “ new and improved ” Sheepherders was Robert Fuller in South Eastern Championship Wrestling . In December 1981 , the Sheepherders won the NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship that had been vacated when Robert Fuller and Jos LeDuc split . After winning the title , Boyd and Williams became embroiled in a bitter feud with Robert Fuller and various partners including his brother Ron Fuller and his cousin Jimmy Golden ( later known as Bunkhouse Buck ) . One act that made the Sheepherders the most hated men in SECW for a while was when the duo kayfabe attacked and injured Jimmy ’ s father Billy Golden . After almost 10 months with the title , the Sheepherders were finally defeated by Fuller and Golden ; this ended the feud on a high note for the face duo , as the Sheepherders were “ run out ” of the territory . Boyd and Williams moved slightly more north as they began to work in the Memphis based promotion Continental Wrestling Association owned and operated by Jerry Jarrett and Jerry Lawler . In the CWA , the Sheepherders would start a feud that stood as their most memorable , bloody , and brutal as the team kicked off a long running feud with The Fabulous Ones ( Stan Lane and Steve Keirn ) . The “ pretty boy ” , well polished Fabulous Ones and the ugly , brawling savage Sheepherders were the perfect opponents and repeatedly drew big gates all over the country . The matches started out pretty evenly , but soon turned brutal and often without a definite winner . In late 1982 , the Sheepherders won the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship from Lane and Keirn , which only turned the intensity of the matches up a notch . Between late December and mid - February , the two teams traded the belts back and forth 4 times with the Fabulous Ones ending up with possession of them in the end . On 28 March , the Sheepherders wrestled their last match in the Mid - South Coliseum before leaving the CWA . Boyd and Williams resurfaced in Southwest Championship Wrestling only weeks later , continuing their brutal and destructive ways . Their first target was the reigning Southwest Tag Team Champions “ The Grapplers ” ( Len Denton and Tony Anthony ) . In May , the Sheepherders won the gold from the duo through nefarious means ; before the match Williams and Boyd had bribed the Grapplers ’ manager Don Carson and promised he would become a tag team champion , Carson turned on the Grapplers mid match to ensure the Sheepherders ’ victory . The Sheepherders run with the gold was short lived ; Jonathan Boyd legitimately broke his leg in a car accident in June which forced the SWCW to name Bobby Jaggers as a replacement . After Williams and Jagger lost a non - title match to Bob Sweetan and Sweet Brown Sugar , Williams turned on Jaggers and the titles were vacated . While Boyd was out with the broken leg , Williams was reunited with his old tag - team partner , Butch straight from Australia .