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| names = '''"Superstar" Bill Dundee'''<br>Sir William
 
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'''William "Bill" Cruickshanks''' ([[October 24]], [[1943]]) is a Scottish born-Australian [[professional wrestler]] and author better known by his stage name '''Bill Dundee'''. Cruickshanks is the father of [[Jamie Dundee]] and the father-in-law of wrestler [[Bobby Eaton]].
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==Career==
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Dundee was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and raised in Melbourne. At the age of 16, he joined the circus as a trapeze artist. He started wrestling in Australia in 1962 and finally arrived in the United States as '''"Superstar" Bill Dundee''' in 1974 with his tag team partner George Barnes.
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Dundee made a name for himself in the [[Memphis Wrestling|Memphis Territory]] where he regularly teamed and feuded with [[Jerry Lawler]] and [[Jimmy Valiant]] for years. Dundee and Lawler ventured to the [[American Wrestling Association]] together in 1987 and captured the AWA World Tag Team Titles twice.
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As a singles wrestler, he held the Southern Heavyweight Championship belt several times from roughly 1975–1985 and also had a successful team with [[Buddy Landel|"Nature Boy" Buddy Landel]] that wreaked havoc in Tennessee.
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Dundee had a brief run in the [[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA]]'s [[Jim Crockett Promotions]], [[Heart of America Sports Attractions|Central States Wrestling]] and [[Championship Wrestling from Florida|Florida Championship Wrestling]] in 1986 where he teamed with [[Jimmy Garvin]] and feuded with [[Sam Houston (wrestler)|Sam Houston]] for the [[NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship]]. He also briefly managed [[Sionne Valahi|The Barbarian]] and [[The MOD Squad]] while in those territories.
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He also had a run in [[World Championship Wrestling]] in the early 1990s as '''Sir William''', the manager for [[Darrin Matthews|Lord Steven Regal]].
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Dundee worked as a [[List of professional wrestling terms#B|booker]] for Memphis, Louisiana and Georgia.
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Dundee is still active as of 2005 in [[Memphis Wrestling]] where he has been a heel and a baby-face. He frequently appears on [[Jackson, Tennessee]] talk radio station WNWS 101.5 with Dan Reeves and on a talk show on Public-access television cable TV channels in West Tennessee. He still promotes indy cards across [[Tennessee]].
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Dundee is involved in promoting wrestling and MMA fighting and working as a Marketing Director for Cole Brothers Circus.
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==Books==
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If You Don't Want The Answer, Don't Ask The Question: Bill Dundee's Life Story
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==Personal life==
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Dundee's son [[Jamie Dundee]], also became a wrestler, whereas his daughter married wrestler [[Bobby Eaton]]. His grandson, Dylan Eaton, wrestles as well.
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In the early 1990s he partnered with Doug Hurt, brother of Jerry Lawler's manager, in the opening of a furniture store in Evansville, Indiana called "Superstar Dundee Furniture". The store collapsed about a year after opening. Thankfully, no one was injured.
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In 1998, he was a sales manager for American Cable and promoted satellite sales in the West Tennessee area.
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==In wrestling==
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*'''Finishing moves'''
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**[[Professional wrestling aerial techniques#Diving crossbody|Diving crossbody]]
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*'''Signature moves'''
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**[[Piledriver (professional wrestling)#Texas piledriver|Piledriver]]
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**[[Pin (professional wrestling)#Small package|Small package]]
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*'''[[Manager (professional wrestling)|Managers]]'''
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**[[Jimmy Hart]]
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**[[Ronald Gosset]]
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**[[Tessa]]
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**[[Rick Joyner]]
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*'''Wrestlers managed'''
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**[[Masahiro Chono]]
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**[[Buddy Landell]]
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**[[Darren Matthews|Lord Steven Regal]]
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**[[Jimmy Garvin]]
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**[[Sionne Valahi|The Barbarian]]
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**[[The MOD Squad]]
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*'''Nicknames'''
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**"Superstar"
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==Championships and accomplishments==
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*'''[[American Wrestling Federation]]'''
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**AWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
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*'''[[Heart of America Sports Attractions|Central States Wrestling]]'''
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**[[NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])
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*'''[[Universal Wrestling Federation (Bill Watts)|Mid-South Wrestling Association]]'''
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**[[UWF World Television Championship|Mid-South Television Championship]] ([[UWF World Television Championship#Title History|1 time]])
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*'''[[Continental Wrestling Association|NWA Mid-America / Continental Wrestling Association / Championship Wrestling Association]]'''
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**[[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship|AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship]] ([[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship#Title history|9 times]])
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**[[AWA Southern Tag Team Championship]] ([[AWA Southern Tag Team Championship#Title history|14 times]]) – with Norvell Austin (1), [[Reuben Kane|Robert Gibson]] (1), [[Jerry Lawler]] (4), [[Robert Fuller]] (1), [[Tommy Rich]] (2), Dream Machine (2), [[Steve Keirn]] (2) and [[Wayne Cowan|Dutch Mantel]] (1)
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**[[AWA World Tag Team Championship]] ([[List of AWA World Tag Team Champions|2 times]]) – with [[Jerry Lawler]]
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**[[CWA/AWA International Heavyweight Championship|CWA International Heavyweight Championship]] ([[CWA/AWA International Heavyweight Championship#Title history|4 times]])
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**[[CWA/AWA International Tag Team Championship|CWA International Tag Team Championship]] ([[CWA/AWA International Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) – with [[Rocky Johnson]]
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**[[CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship]] ([[CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])
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**[[CWA World Heavyweight Championship (Memphis version)|CWA World Heavyweight Championship]] ([[CWA World Heavyweight Championship (Memphis version)#Title history|1 time]])
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**[[CWA World Tag Team Championship]] ([[CWA World Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) – with Tommy Rich
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**[[NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])
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**[[NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship]] ([[NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) – with Ricky Gibson
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**[[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship|NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship ''(Memphis version)'']] ([[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])
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**[[AWA Southern Tag Team Championship|NWA Southern Tag Team Championship ''(Mid-America version)'']] ([[AWA Southern Tag Team Championship#Title history|3 times]]) – with Big Bad John (2) and [[Tommy Rich]] (1)
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**NWA United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
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*'''[[Ohio Valley Wrestling]]'''
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**[[OVW Heavyweight Championship]] ([[OVW Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])
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*'''[[Power Pro Wrestling]]'''
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**PPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jerry Lawler
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*'''[[Continental Championship Wrestling|Southeastern Championship Wrestling]]'''
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**[[CWF Tag Team Championship|NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship]] ([[CWF Tag Team Championship#Title history|1 time]]) – with Tommy Rich
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**[[NWA Southeastern United States Junior Heavyweight Championship|NWA United States Junior Heavyweight Championship ''(Southeastern version)'']] ([[NWA Southeastern United States Junior Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])
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*'''[[United States Wrestling Association]]'''
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**[[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship|USWA Heavyweight Championship]] ([[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])
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**[[USWA Junior Heavyweight Championship]] ([[USWA Junior Heavyweight Championship#Title history|2 times]])
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**[[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship|USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship]] ([[Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship#Title history|3 times]])
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**[[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship|USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship#Title history|3 times]])
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**[[USWA World Tag Team Championship]] ([[USWA World Tag Team Championship#Title history|3 times]]) – with Jerry Lawler (2) and [[Jamie Dundee]] (1)
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*'''[[Pro Wrestling Illustrated]]'''
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**PWI ranked him #'''56''' of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Jerry Lawler in 2003
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*'''[[World Class Championship Wrestling|World Class Wrestling Association]]'''
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**[[CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship]] ([[CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship#Title history|2 times]])
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<small>Dundee'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.</small><br><small>The CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship was promoted in both the CWA and WCWA while the promotions had a working relationship in 1989 and 1990.</small>
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==External links==
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*[http://cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=857&gimmick=Bill+Dundee Bill Dundee profile on CAGEMATCH]
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*[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/bill-dundee.html Bill Dundee profile on Online World of Wrestling]
   
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{{1991 PWI Top 500 Wrestlers}}
Bill Dundee (born 24 October 1943) is a [[professional wrestler]] is also the father-in-law of wrestler [[Bobby Eaton]] & father of [[Jamie Dundee]].
 
 
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William "Bill" Cruickshanks (October 24, 1943) is a Scottish born-Australian professional wrestler and author better known by his stage name Bill Dundee. Cruickshanks is the father of Jamie Dundee and the father-in-law of wrestler Bobby Eaton.

Career

Dundee was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and raised in Melbourne. At the age of 16, he joined the circus as a trapeze artist. He started wrestling in Australia in 1962 and finally arrived in the United States as "Superstar" Bill Dundee in 1974 with his tag team partner George Barnes.

Dundee made a name for himself in the Memphis Territory where he regularly teamed and feuded with Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant for years. Dundee and Lawler ventured to the American Wrestling Association together in 1987 and captured the AWA World Tag Team Titles twice.

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 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 worked as a booker for Memphis, Louisiana and Georgia.

Dundee is still active as of 2005 in Memphis Wrestling where he has been a heel and a baby-face. He frequently appears on Jackson, Tennessee talk radio station WNWS 101.5 with Dan Reeves and on a talk show on Public-access television cable TV channels in West Tennessee. He still promotes indy cards across Tennessee.

Dundee is involved in promoting wrestling and MMA fighting and working as a Marketing Director for Cole Brothers Circus.

Books

If You Don't Want The Answer, Don't Ask The Question: Bill Dundee's Life Story

Personal life

Dundee's son Jamie Dundee, also became a wrestler, whereas his daughter married wrestler Bobby Eaton. His grandson, Dylan Eaton, wrestles as well.

In the early 1990s he partnered with Doug Hurt, brother of Jerry Lawler's manager, in the opening of a furniture store in Evansville, Indiana called "Superstar Dundee Furniture". The store collapsed about a year after opening. Thankfully, no one was injured.

In 1998, he was a sales manager for American Cable and promoted satellite sales in the West Tennessee area.

In wrestling

  • Nicknames
    • "Superstar"

Championships and accomplishments

  • Southeastern Championship Wrestling
    • NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tommy Rich
    • NWA United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (Southeastern version) (1 time)

Dundee'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.
The CWA Southwestern Heavyweight Championship was promoted in both the CWA and WCWA while the promotions had a working relationship in 1989 and 1990.

External links

1991 PWI Top 500 Wrestlers
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