Vader

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 3-Becoming WCW Heaviweight champion at Wrestlewar 1992

## Unstoppable beast and United States Champion(1989-1991)

At Starrcade 1989, during the Freebirds vs Kevin Sullivan handicap match, the Starrcade Countdown started and Vader debuted as he destroyed the freebirds and helped Sullivan. At Wrestlewar 1990 Vader and Sullivan defeated Freebirds, they started a feud with Junkyard Dog and his new monster El Gigante as at Capital Combat El Gigante and JYD defeated Vader and Sullivan. Though at Great American Bash Vader defeated El Gigante to end the feud

At Halloween Havoc shockingly Vader did all the work and defeated Steiner Brothers to get the tag titles for him and Sullivan, he also won the Havoc Battle Royal and proceeded to defeat Sting to become United States champion, Kevin tried celebrating with him but Vader took away his tag title as he demanded for Kevin to be his bitch and put all 3 titles on his waist which Kevin did. On the following Saturday Night they lost the tag titles as Kevin didn't manage to tag in Vader and Vader turned on him after the match.

At Starrcade 1990, Vader retained against Sting yet again. At Wrestlewar he began a new feud as Rick Rude made his debut in a match against him but during it Stunning Steve Austin also debuted attacking Vader along with Rude. Vader was injured and almost stripped off the title but he returned at Great American Bash and defeated Rude. At Halloween Havoc Vader defeated Cactus Jack in a brutal match, his feud with Dangerous Alliance continued as Rude had one last preposition for him: Stunning Austin and The Enforcers vs Vader, if Vader loses he has a match against Rude for the US belt following that. At Starrcade 1991 Austin and The Enforcers won but Vader defeated Rick Rude afterwards and decided to takeover Dangerous Alliance to give it the strength it needed

## Dangerous Alliance and WCW Heaviweight champion(1992)

Vader demanded that the "prophecy of gold" should be completed which means Dangerous Alliance gets all WCW gold, Vader decided to forfeit the United States Championship and give it to Stunning Austin which made Austin reconsider his position about Vader as a leader and actually liking it while Rude still hated him.

At Wrestlewar 1992 Vader defeated Sting for the vacant WCW Heaviweight belt, Vader had a solid reign with brutal matches. At Beach Blast he beat Kensuke Sasaki in a falls count anywhere with Rude helping him win but after the match Rude attacked Vader with the title turning face

He retained against DDP at Great American Bash and was then scheduled to face Rick Rude, During the buildup they had a forearm fight which ended with security breaking them out but Rick Rude managing to break Vader's nose anyways. At Halloween Havoc, Vader defeated Rude to retain the title in the first ever last man standing match.

At Starrcade 1992, the battlebowl happened as Vader and Cactus Jack defeated Johnny B.Badd and Scott Norton to qualify to the battle royal but Sting eliminated Vader on the battle royal, in the main event an injured Sting managed to defeat Vader and become WCW Heaviweight champion

## Feud with Dusty Rhodes and Meng(1993)

Vader destroyed the rest of Dangerous Alliance ending their group effectively, he demanded a rematch for the title but owner of WCW Dusty Rhodes refused because Vader lost to an injured Sting. Vader was pissed and wanted to fight Dusty. Dusty would only give him it if he could beat 3 men in a handicap match, the 3 men ended up being Rick Rude and Road Warriors who became bodyguards of Dusty during this and beat Vader. Vader was put on a gauntlet match where if he won all 5 matches he would get a match against Dustin and Vader managed to do it with Meng as his last opponent but he forfeited as he also hated Dusty

At Slamboree, Dusty still got out of the match as he acted like he was injured and put Dustin against Vader, he destroyed Dusty's son and later on the night he attacked Dusty Rhodes to replace him in a fatal 4 way NO1 contendership defeating Meng, DDP and Ron Simmons and officially turning face. Vader had grown to be a sympathetic face and gained respect of Sting, at Beach Blast Sting unfortunately suffered a shoulder injury and Vader defeated him to win the title back, after the match Meng(who had won the CITL tag briefcase earlier on the night) cashed in on Vader and won the belt

6 days later, Dusty Rhodes said that the tag briefcase is for tag titles only so he stripped Meng out of the belt not declaring him as an official champ and began a 32 men tournament for the title, on the first round it was already Vader vs Meng as both men beat each other to death ending in a draw and no man advancing.

Meng returned at Fall Brawl wanting a match and out came Vader as those 2 brawl all throught the arena taking down security while they’re at it, at Halloween Havoc they got a tag title shot because Dusty wanted to spite them which just ended in a countout win for tag champs Hollywood Blondes as they couldn’t stop beating each other up, Meng says Vader can’t deal with the fact there’s a new monster in town and he’s being replaced. At Starrcade, they had a 5 star match, 2 out of 3 falls with different stipulations for every fall, this match proved that Meng is the new biggest monster as he completely dominated Vader and defeated him spearing him off the apron onto a table that was on fire, this was Vader’s last WCW match as he suffered a career ending injury during this match

## WWF Champion(1996-1997)

In the 1996 Royal Rumble match Vader made his debut and return to wrestling at number 21, he broke the records for most eliminations as he eliminated 12 people(including Bret Hart in 4 seconds of his entrance), Vader lastly eliminated Shawn Michaels to win the rumble in his debut.

Vader attacked the president of WWF Jerry Lawler as he didn't wanna make any friends, Vader continued being dominant until Wrestlemania 12 where he defeated Mr.Perfect to become WWF champion. Lawler was hellbent on taking the title off Vader's hands as he re-introduced Ultimate Warrior who lost against him at In Your House 20. Lawler continued stacking up the odds as he announced a 6 men ladder match for the belt between Vader, The Undertaker, Sycho Sid, Warrior, Yokozuna and Ahmed Johnson. During the match, every men fell off the ladder at the same time and the ring collapsed due to 2000 pounds of mass falling at the same time

He retained in singles matches against every single man except for Ahmed Johnson which ended in a DQ due to Bradshaw. At Summerslam Vader squashed Ahmed in 1 minute to retain the title, afterwards DX came out as they revealed their newest member: Barry Windham who immediatly had a WWF title match against Vader but lost

During Summerslam, ECW invaded and were only taken care of as Vader showed up and stared ECW Heaviweight champion Taz out of there. Jerry Lawler appreciates this action and started respecting Vader, at In Your House 21 Vader went up against ECW's Terry Funk in an unsanctioned match where if Funk won, ECW would get a PPV against WWF, Terry managed to win with help from Rob Van Dam

At ECW vs WWF, Vader did the unthinkable and defeated Taz to retain the WWF Championship and become ECW Heaviweight champion. At G1 Finals he retained against Jerry Lawler.  Vader showed up in an episode of Hardcore TV and Meng showed up to a huge pop from the crowd as the 2 reignited their feud. They had their match at Barely Legal, the first ever PPV for ECW and it was truly historic as it was a WWF guy vs a WCW guy for the ECW Heaviweight championship on ECW’s first ever PPV, the match was brutal with both men coming out of it needing 40 stitches but Meng finally won the ECW Heaviweight Championship, both Vince and Eric Bischoff were pissed with Vince cancelling the deal he had with ECW and Bischoff suspending Meng from WCW for a while.

Vader returned at Survivor Series to defeat G1 winner Steve Austin to retain the belt, they started counting his winning streak as he was undefeated since he debuted(the Terry Funk match didn't count as it was unsanctioned). The Undertaker mentioned his winning streak at Wrestlemania and challenged Vader to a streak vs streak match but Vader refused as he was gonna have a WWF title match against Shawn Michaels. At RAW 243, Vader faced Bret for the title with Owen Hart as special guest ref, Bret put Vader on the sharpshooter and Owen rang the bell without Vader tapping to award Bret the WWF belt.

He was furious and accepted the streak vs streak match against Undertaker but he lost at Wrestlemania 13 ending his streak at 33-1

## Feud against Ministry of Darkness and Powerbomb Masters(1997-1998)

Vader continued feuding with The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness. Terry Funk returned to WWF saying he was the one who ended Vader's streak so he had 2 feuds interaligned. At RAW is WAR 260 Vader turned face saving Sycho Sid from a MOD attack, they were scheduled to have a tag match against Legion of Doom at Summerslam but Sid was injured by MOD before it happened. Vader was forced to be in a 1 on 3 handicap match but if he won he'd be inserted into the WWF title match, Vader lost as Bart Gunn and Marc Mero showed up as new members of MOD

He also started teaming up with Terry Funk as they were all against MOD. Vader had a handicap match against Legion of Doom at G1 Finals where if he won he would enter the G1 Finals match, Sycho Sid returned during it ending the match in a DQ and Vader was pissed about it coming to blows with him. Vader defeated him in a singles match but they quickly teamed back together against the threat of MOD. On the RAW before Survivor Series, Vader, Sid, Brian Pillman and Terry Funk defeated MOD to win the Survivor Series Briefcases

Sid and Vader had a tag title match at Badd Blood defeating Ken Shamrock and British Bulldog to win the titles, they started calling themselves Powerbomb Masters. They wanted to pile up challengers so not only did they face New Age Outlaws but also Legion of Devils and Cactus Jack and Terry Funk in a tag team turmoil at Wrestlemania 14. They defeated LOD in the first match but lost to Cactus and Funk in the second one which was Vader's last WWF match

## ECW(1998)

Vader had a short stint with ECW making his "return" at Heatwave as he was Paul Heyman's representative against Tommy Dreamer but failed to win so Heyman lost his ownership job.

Taz was still pissed from 2 years ago when Vader beat him to win the ECW title as a WWF guy and challenged him to a match at Wrestlepalooza, he kept challenging him throught the weeks to no response until Wrestlepalooza came and he finally showed up but was defeated by Taz

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WWF
 ECW

### Face/heel turns

 Heel
 Face
 Heel
 Face
 Heel

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(1 time)
* World Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Sycho Sid
* Royal Rumble(1996)
* Wrestler of the Year(1996)
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1996) winning the rumble in his debut

* World Championship Wrestling
* WCW Heaviweight Championship(2 times)
* United States Championship(1 time)
* WCW Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Kevin Sullivan
* Starrcade Countdown(1989) Vader's debut
* Havoc Battle Royal(1990)
* Wrestler of the Year(1992)
* Match of the Year(1992) vs Kensuke Sasaki at Beach Blast
* Match of the Year(1993) vs Meng at Starrcade
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1992) every hardcore spot in Sasaki vs Vader
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1993) Meng destroying Vader

* Extreme Championship Wrestling
* ECW Heaviweight Championship(1 time)