Junkyard Dog

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 3-Winning the TV Championship

## First black world champion(1985)

Junkyard Dog's first canon match was defeating Roddy Piper on the first ever Superstars in a qualifer for a fatal 4 way at SNME May to crown the first WWF champion. At SNME May, before the match, Piper attacked JYD and took his spot, Piper defeated Hulk Hogan, Ricky Steamboat, Randy Savage and Terry Funk to become the first ever WWF champion. This led to huge controversy as people had been wanting to see real change coming with black people on wrestling and there was scheduled to be 2 people in this main event, when the match actually happened 0 black people were involved.

Junkyard Dog and Roddy Piper started feuding as JYD kept ambushing Piper, at SNME June Piper's reign would end at only 28 days as Junkyard Dog defeated him to become the first ever black world champion. Before Piper's rematch, he got into a short feud with Tito Santana as Tito was supposed to wrestle JYD but Piper attacked him before the match, at King of the Ring JYD defeated Tito. Piper unveiled a brand new match type for WWF at Superstars 13, the ladder match where JYD and Piper would fight at Summerslam, Junkyard Dog retained the title, Heenan Family would attack both men after the match starting a new feud

JYD challenged Andre The Giant, Kamala and Paul Orndorff to a handicap match where whoever pins him gets a title shot as he tried to break them up but they were smarter than that and at SNME September they all worked together and let Orndorff pin JYD, their match at G1 Finals ends in a double countout as Heenan Family's sights change to making Hulk Hogan the champion. At Survivor Series it was supposed to be G1 winner Randy Savage vs JYD but Savage was injured by Heenan Family and Hogan took his spot, losing. Kamala was supposed to be his next challenger but he no-showed the match and Hogan took his spot yet again, losing yet again at SNME December. On the Superstars after that, Hogan would have one last match and defeat Junkyard Dog ending his reign at 172 days.

## Various feuds(1986-1988)

At Wrestlemania 2 he was Terry Funk's mystery partner as they defeated Adrian Adonis and Bob Orton Jr.

Butch Reed wanted to make a mark on WWF so he challenged Junkyard Dog in a G1 qualifying match which he accepted, at Summerslam Reed pulled the tights and beat JYD while disrespecting him at the same time, in the Halloween Special JYD distracted Reed in his NO1 contendership match against Steamboat and Reed lost, at Survivor Series JYD, Savage, King Kong Bundy and Davey Boy Smith defeated Butch Reed, Roddy Piper, Andre The Giant and Harley Race with JYD last eliminating Reed to win. With the Survivor Series Lottery, JYD and King Kong Bundy got a tag team title shot, they would lose but become a regular team participating in the tag team battle royal for the vacant tag titles at Wrestlemania 3, Bundy was released after this leaving JYD in singles action again.

He started a feud with also recently singles star Jacques Rougeau on the Superstars after Wrestlemania, during their match at SNME May, Jacques left midway through saying he isn't worth the trouble but at Superstars 103, JYD would defeat Jacques.

At Summerslam 1987, JYD won a fatal 4 way to become the NO1 contender for the Intercontinental Championship, One Man Gang also won a match where the winner got a future IC title shot, this started a feud between them as they wanted to see who was the true NO1 contender, at G1 Finals One Man Gang defeated JYD but he wasn't done as he still wanted his IC title shot, this ended up in a triple threat match at Wrestlemania 4 where both men finally got their title shot against Bret Hart but Bret still managed to beat them both, JYD quit WWF after this

## WCW(1989-1992)

Junkyard Dog was brought into WCW by Ricky Steamboat to help on his fight against Four Horsemen, Steamboat brought him as well as Warrior and Terry Funk. At Halloween Havoc 1989, they defeated Four Horsemen in a wargames match in 1989's MOTY.

In 1990, Junkyard Dog started hyping up the arrival of El Gigante, someone that was as big as Vader but even more powerful, at Capital Combat El Gigante would debut as JYD's partner against Vader and Kevin Sullivan, they won but the match was awful as Gigante didn't know how to wrestle. At Great American Bash, Junkyard Dog managed El Gigante in a loss to Vader. He would continue to manage him and sometimes team with him before Gigante's release after 1990 ended.

JYD's next meaningful feud and last would come in 1992, JYD defeated Dustin Rhodes in singles action, something his dad was pissed about. Dusty Rhodes, who was WCW's owner at the time, put an ultimatum on JYD as the next match he loses will be his last. JYD started appearing more regularly always fighting for his career and even winning the TV title in the process, Dusty Rhodes decided that he wanted to be the one retiring him, at Halloween Havoc they would have a match which Junkyard Dog managed to win. At Starrcade it was a big challenge as it was the Battlebowl and JYD would have to win a tag team match, a battle royal and a WCW Heaviweight Championship match against Vader to keep his career intact. JYD and Brian Pillman defeated Brad Armstrong and Van Hammer in the opener to enter the battlebowl battle royal, in the battle royal it was Dusty Rhodes himself who eliminated JYD and ended his career like this, he returned to the ring for one last bodyslam headbutt to Dusty as everyone ganged up on the owner to eliminate him

## Post-Retirement Appearences(1992-1993)

On the RAW after Starrcade, it was immediatly announced that JYD would be on a WWF ring for the first time in 5 years. Vince Mcmahon himself came out as he inducted Junkyard Dog as the second ever person to be in the WWF Hall of Fame, The Mountie came out trying to say something but JYD immediatly kicks him out and he does his retirement speech.

Junkyard Dog wrestled one last match as the 12th entrant in 1993's Royal Rumble just to eliminate The Mountie before getting eliminated by Razor Ramon

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WCW
 WWF

## Championships and Accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Champion(1 time)

* World Championship Wrestling
* TV Championship(1 time)
* Match of the Year(1989) with Warrior, Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk vs Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Ole Anderson and Sting at Halloween Havoc