He defeated Rambo in the finals, to win his first tournament. In December 1987, he participated in his second tournament, the Bremen Catch Cup, in Germany.
He held onto the title for nearly four months, before losing back to Wanz on July 11 in Graz, Austria. On March 22, 1987, he won his first championship, the CWA World Heavyweight Championship, defeating Otto Wanz in Denver, Colorado, ending Wanz's reign of nearly nine years in its only title change in the United States. He made it to the finals, before losing to Klaus Wallas. That summer, he took part in the three-day tournament for the Vienna Catch Cup, in Austria. In May 1986, White went to Europe to compete for Otto Wanz and his promotion, Catch Wrestling Association, touring Austria and Germany, using the name Bull Power. White honed his skills during this time, and his ring work improved significantly to the point that he was booked in a match with Stan Hansen for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, where he was defeated. He went by the moniker Baby Bull, which was later changed to Bull Power. Trained by Brad Rheingans, White got his first national exposure in the American Wrestling Association (AWA).
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While working out at a gym, White was spotted by a man who remembered him from his college football days who suggested him to look into professional wrestling. Professional wrestling career American Wrestling Association (1985–1987) White was forced into retirement by a ruptured patella. He did not play a single down and registered no statistics. White spent the season on the injured reserve list due to knee problems. White's second season saw the Rams go to the Super Bowl and earned White an NFC championship ring. In the 1978 NFL Draft, White was drafted as a center by the Los Angeles Rams with the 24th pick of the 3rd Round (80th overall). He earned a business administration degree. He played offensive line at the University of Colorado, where he was named a second-team All-American at guard by United Press International for the Buffaloes in 1977. White was a nationally ranked center that was recruited by forty colleges.
In high school, he competed in shot put on the track and field team, wrestled, and played football.
His father also was an underwater welder for the US Navy and invented an automobile hoist, which made the family wealthier and let them move to a safer neighborhood in Bell, where White attended Bell High School. He was raised with his sister in a rough area of Los Angeles known as South Central, where the siblings experienced a home break-in. Leon Allen White was born in Lynwood, California on May 14, 1955, and grew up in Compton, California.
Vader was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022. He headlined multiple PPV events for the WWF and WCW. Among other accolades in WCW, Mexico and Japan, he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the WCW World Heavyweight Championship three times each, the UWA World Heavyweight Championship once, 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). White performed as a monstrous wrestler, and he was capable of aerial maneuvers: his diving moonsault was voted the " Best Wrestling Maneuver" of 1993 by Wrestling Observer Newsletter ( WON) readers. He is widely regarded as the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestler of all time.
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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. Leon Allen White (– June 18, 2018), better known by his ring names Big Van Vader or simply Vader, was an American professional wrestler and professional football player.
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