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Season 6 of the heartbreakingly human documentary series VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring continues with a headfirst dive into the seismic, singular life of Leon Allen White — better known to the world ...
Before Leon White was Vader, he was a wrestler named Baby Bull. After a rough childhood growing up in Los Angeles, including burglars breaking into his house when he was home alone with his sister ...
After examining both Mick Foley and Ludvig Borga, VICE's popular 'Dark Side Of The Ring' series decided it was 'Vader Time' for the show's latest episode. Leon White, known to wrestling fans as ...
Do you know the original vision for the Big Van Vader character? Leon's son Jesse was on hand to lay it all out if not. He described what Japanese wrestling great Antonio Inoki hoped to accomplish ...
The subject of the 4/4/25 episode of Dark Side Of The Ring, former WCW World Heavyweight Champion Big Van Vader, or Vader for short, was a somewhat polarizing figure amongst his peers. He's been ...
Dave Meltzer and I are back with our Friday episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter. But before that, we interviewed Marc ...
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert wasn't just a great wrestler but a phenomenal creative mind. However, a tragedy brought it all to a ...
Breaking through in the late 1980s, "The Beast from the East" would form a monstrous tag team with Big Van Vader in New Japan Pro Wrestling, before being snapped up by the WWE in 1992. During his ...
The late Leon “The Bull” White, better known in wrestling circles as Big Van Vader, played college football for the University of Colorado where he was named a second-team All-American guard ...
A mouth-watering WCW World title match saw Sting clash with Big Van Vader while Barry Windham squared off with Dustin Rhodes (Goldust). "Ravishing" Rick Rude took on UK's own Davey Boy Smith, better ...
This coming May, the iconic bicycle used in 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' will go one sale, alongside other famous props from ...
Just as it's inconceivable to think of Indiana Jones without his trusty whip, Darth Vader without his trademark ... Burton's 1985 cult classic Pee-wee's Big Adventure will be auctioned off to ...