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Jonathan Boyd


Last updated by Sean Sweeny on April 28, 2014



Title History

 

  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles w/Norman Frederick Charles defeating Big Snuka & Frankie Laine (????, 1971);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles w/Norman Frederick Charles defeating Kurt & Karl Von Steiger (July 11, 1971);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight title defeating Kurt Von Steiger (July 31, 1971);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight title defeating Dutch Savage (November 28, 1971);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles w/Norman Frederick Charles defeating Beauregard & Dutch Savage (December 17, 1971);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles w/Norman Frederick Charles defeating Moondog Mayne & Tony Borne (May 9, 1972);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles w/Norman Frederick Charles defeating Jimmy Snuka & Dutch Savage (Febuary 27, 1975);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles w/Norman Frederick Charles defeating Bull Ramos & Jesse Ventura (June 5, 1976);
  • Stampede International Tag Team titles w/Norman Frederick Charles defeating Keith Hart & Leo Burke (April 6, 1977);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight title defeating Ed Wiskoski (August 22, 1978);
  • NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles w/Dutch Savage defeating Ed Wiskoski & Buddy Rose (November 21, 1978);
  • NWA (Los Angeles) Americas Tag Team titles w/Colosso Colosetti defeating Barry Orton & Hector Guerrero (May 18, 1979);
  • NWA Georgia Televison title defeating Ray Candy (September ??, 1979);
  • NWA Southeastern Tag Team titles w/Luke Williams defeating ???????? (December ??, 1981);
  • AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Luke Williams defeating Stan Lane & Steve Keirn (December 13, 1982);
  • AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Luke Williams defeating Stan Lane & Steve Keirn (Febuary 7, 1983);
  • SCW Southwest Tag Team titles w/Luke Williams defeating The Grapplers (May ??, 1983);
  • AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Rip Morgan defeating Stan Lane & Steve Keirn (June 22, 1985);
  • AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Rip Morgan defeating Stan Lane & Steve Keirn (September ??, 1985);
  • AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Rip Morgan defeating Stan Lane & Steve Keirn (September 6, 1985);
  • AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Rip Morgan defeating Stan Lane & Steve Keirn (September 16, 1985);
  • AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Bigfoot defeating Billy Travis & Jeff Jarrett [Tournament] (November 10, 1986);
  • NWA (Southeastern) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Ranger Ross (January 11, 1988);
  • ICW (New England) Heavyweight title defeating Joe Savoldi (December 28, 1988);

 

Career Highlights

The Royal Kangaroos:

 

The New Zealand Sheepherders:

  • Jonathan Boyd would become a member of, and later the manager of, The Sheepherders (Luke Williams & Butch Miller)..
  • ~~~The team of Jonathan Boyd & Luke Williams started out as the “Kiwi Sheephearders” and then the “New Zealand Sheepherders”..
  • ~~~Jonathan Boyd had an accident and was replaced by Butch Miller, and the team was then known as “The Sheephearders”..
  • Jonathan Boyd had three different partners as The Sheepherders – Big Foot, Luke Williams, Rip Morgan…The Sheepherders (Southeastern Wrestling):
  • Late 1981: The Sheepherders (Jonathan Boyd & Luke Williams) first entered Southeastern Wrestling in Alabama..
  • ~~~The Sheepherders were managed by Billy Golden, who was said to be the father of Jimmy Golden..
  • ~~~When they turned on Billy Golden, Jimmy Golden joined Robert & Ron Fuller feuding with the Sheepherders..
  • ~~~This is how the famous feud between The Sheepherders and the Welch family all started.
  • Early 1982: Ox Baker briefly managed The Sheepherders (Jonathan Boyd & Luke Williams) in Birmingham, Alabama..Boyd’s Commonwealth Army (Southwest Championship Wrestling):
  • Jonathan Boyd was the manager of a group called “Boyd’s Commonwealth Army” in Southwest Championship Wrestling..
  • ~~~The group consisted of Adrian Street and his valet Linda, The Sheepherders (Luke Williams & Butch Miller) & Eric Embry..Jonathan Boyd (Portland Wrestling):
  • 1987: Jonathan Boyd moved from Memphis to Oregon..
  • Jonathan Boyd was also famous for beating up his opponents with a Boomerang!
  • December 25, 1989: Jonathan Boyd (in his final match) defeated Rex King in Portland, Oregon.. 
  • http://www.wrestlingclassics.com/fe/fe-jonathanboyd.html – The Strange Life & Times of Jonathan Boyd..

    Greg Kelly wrote: Johnny Boyd is from the apple isle Tasmania originally, he was well known as a militant union official in Australia back in the 60s & made the local Newspaper paper once because of some sort of militant union action that he was in the middle of..