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William Crookshanks
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Ring name(s)	"Superstar" Bill Dundee Sir William
Billed height	5 ft 7 in (1.7 m)
Billed weight	214 lb (97 kg)
Born	October 24, 1943 (1943-10-24) (age 64) Dundee, Scotland
Resides	McKenzie, Tennessee, United States
Billed from	Australia
Debut	1967

William Crookshanks (born October 24, 1943) is a professional wrestler better known as "Superstar" Bill Dundee. He is also the father-in-law of wrestler Bobby Eaton, who is married to Crookshanks' daughter. ^[1]

Contents 1 Career 2 Wrestling facts 2.1 Finishing and signature moves 2.2 Managers 3 Wrestlers managed 4 Championships and accomplishments 5 References 6 External links

Born in Scotland, William Crookshanks grew up in the circus as a trapeze artist before moving to Australia at the age of 16. He started wrestling in Australia in 1967 and finally arrived in the United States as "Superstar" Bill Dundee in 1974.

Dundee made a name for himself in the Memphis, Tennessee area where he regularly teamed with Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant for years. Dundee & Lawler ventured to the American Wrestling Association together in 1987 and captured the AWA World Tag Team Titles twice^[2].

As a singles wrestler, he held the Southern Heavyweight Championship belt several times from roughly 1975-1985 and also had a successful team with "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel that wreaked havoc in Tennessee.

Dundee had a brief run in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions, Central States Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling|Championship Wrestling from Florida in 1986 where he teamed with Jimmy Garvin and feuded with Sam Houston for the NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship. He also briefly managed The Barbarian and The MOD Squad while in those territories.

He also had a run in World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s as Sir William, the manager for Lord Steven Regal.

Dundee is still active as of 2005 in Lawler's Memphis Wrestling where he has been a heel and a baby-face. He was the proprietor of "Bill Dundee's Club" a topless entertainment club located at Exit 126 on Interstate 40, near the Tennessee River in West Tennessee. The club has not been in operation under Dundee's ownership (or under the name Dundee's) since early 2001. He frequently appears on Jackson, TN talk radio station WNWS 101.5 and on a talk show on the community-access cable channels in West Tennessee.

As of the summer of 2007 Bill Dundee has been providing added entertainment to a local dodgeball tournament brought to fruition by a local radio personality George Bfor the benefit of charities around the Jackson, TN area. He has been playing for NewsTalk's radio station against dodgeball teams such as the Madison County Commissioners, the Diamond Jaxx Staff, and the Jackson Police Department just to name a few. The dodgeball games can be viewed at j razz creations.

Dundee has a son who wrestles as "JC Ice", Jamie Crookshanks.

• Bombs Away

• Ronald Gosset
• Tessa
• Samantha Pain

• Lord Steven Regal
• The Barbarian
• The MOD Squad

• Central States Wrestling

• NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Mid-South Wrestling Association

• Mid-South Television Championship (1 time)

• NWA Mid-America | Continental Wrestling Association

• AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (9 times)
• AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (14 times) - with Norvell Austin (1), Robert Gibson (1), Jerry Lawler (4), Robert Fuller (1), Tommy Rich (2), Dream Machine (2), Steve Keirn (2) and Dutch Mantel (1)
• AWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Jerry Lawler¹
• CWA International Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
• CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
• CWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tommy Rich
• NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson
• NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Memphis version) (1 time)
• NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version) (3 times) - with Big Bad John (2) and Tommy Rich (1)

• Ohio Valley Wrestling

• OVW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Power Pro Wrestling

• PPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jerry Lawler

• Southeastern Championship Wrestling

• NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tommy Rich
• NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• United States Wrestling Association

• USWA Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• USWA Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Jerry Lawler (2) and Jamie Crookshanks (1)
• USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (3 times) (First)

¹Dundee's and Lawler's reigns with the AWA World Tag Team Championship began on cards hosted by the CWA through the interpromotional relationship between the AWA and CWA that also allowed the defense of the AWA Southern Heavyweight and Southern Tag Team Championships primarily within the CWA.

1. ^ An Exclusive Interview with Bobby Eaton. DDT Digest (May 1999). Retrieved on 2007-04-05.
2. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWA_World_Tag_Team_Championship

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