- Born
- Died
- Birth nameLeon Allen White
- Nicknames
- Baby Bull
- Vader
- Big Van Vader
- Super Vader
- Bull Power
- Mastodon
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- Leon Allen White (May 14, 1955 - June 18, 2018), better known by his ring names Big Van Vader or simply Vader, was an American professional wrestler and professional football player. Throughout his career, he performed for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and Pro Wrestling Noah (NOAH) during the 1990s and 2000s. Widely regarded as one of the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestlers of all time, he was a 13-time world champion.
Among other accolades in WCW and Japan, he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the WCW World Heavyweight Championship three times each, the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship twice, the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship once, and won the battle royal main event of the 1993 Battlebowl pay-per-view (PPV). He headlined multiple PPV events for the WWF and WCW. Vader was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996.
In 2022, Vader was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseDebra Rankin(1988 - 2007) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Smoking lighted helmet mask
- Finishing Moves: Vader Bomb and Vader Moonsault
- Partial Mask
- Catchphrase "It's Vader Time"
- Was the man Mick Foley (as Cactus Jack) was wrestling the night he had his right ear torn off the side of his head.
- Prior to his wrestling career, was an offensive tackle for the then Los Angeles (now St. Louis) Rams.
- Fired from start up Japanese wrestling company World Japan Prowrestling when he broke an expensive table in a heated argument with management. Has not wrestled in Japan since.
- Notable title wins include: CWA World Heavyweight title (3); NJPW IWGP Heavyweight title (3); UWA World Heavyweight title (); CWA Intercontinental title; NJPW IWGP Tag Team titles w/Bam Bam Bigelow; WCW World Heavyweight title (3); WCW US title; AJPW Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight title (2); AJPW World Tag Team titles w/Steve Williams; NOAH GHC Tag Team titles w/Scorpio
- Announced that doctors have told him he has just two years to live due to congestive heart failure.[November 2016].
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