The Spoiler vs Ken Patera with JJ Dillon (December 28, 1978)

[@slayerone61]

Two greats from back in the day. Patera was a power lifter and strong man who transformed himself from a bulky weightlifter to the streamlined wrestler as seen in this video. Don Jardine (The Spoiler) was a real bad ass -- great balance and very agile for a guy his size and build. Love watching wrestling matches from the past. Thank you, Rob D!

[@bryandeville322]

Enjoyed watching this match

[@nawitaw2011]

Takes me back to my childhood . Enjoyed seeing it thanks for posting !

[@kjvwarrior777]

The spoiler was my favorite 70s wrestler, always waited for him to come out on TV when I was a kid.

[@teller1290]

Me, too, but I knew him as Super Destroyer.

[@DotDotkins]

Love watching the heel vs heel matches just to see who becomes the face during the match.

[@smoothbro9711]

IKR the fans boo both wrestlers lol

[@leeinvegas]

Petera was chiseled and well built. Pure strength

[@027MC7]

When Ken swung the Spoiler full force into the ropes, I thought the whole ring was going to collapse! Lol

[@teller1290]

Instant classic for this Jardine (aka, Spoiler, Super Destroyer) fan. Liked Patera as a heel, also but Super D was my hero as a boy during his brief but very exciting time in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling back in early - mid '70s.

[@dbsommers1]

Great seeing these.two

[@mrf19741]

I read that in his later years after retiring from wrestling Don Jardine(The Spoiler) married a lovely lady who was a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer.

[@teller1290]

Yeh, I loved this guy when I was a boy and he was Super Destroyer in old NWA territory known then as Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in early - mid '70s. In 2004, I tracked him down online and found his web site. We had numerous exchanges between fall '04 and Dec '06, when he passed, not yet 70. The woman you speak of ran his web site and also was the one who informed me of his death. Sad thing is that he invited me up to the small town in Alberta that he lived in but I never made it. Would've been good to meet him ..and her. She had to love him to do that web site for him. It was pretty good. And time keeps moving on with things "I shoulda done."

[@cathycartee4180]

I love seeing Patera in the 1970s. What a monster. I'm betting no one could really beat him back then.

[@CuteLesbo69]

Two words... Harley Race

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

BRISCO , Hodge and Many others though the would have to be very careful .

[@kevthegoat8774]

Danny Hodge, Jack Brisco, Masa Saito, Harley Race, Blackjack Mulligan, Bruiser Brody, Bob Backlund, André The Giant, Billy Robinson, Bob Roop, Wahoo McDaniel, Tim Woods, Bruno Sammartino, Nikolai Volkoff, Tony Atlas, Ernie Ladd etc Don't see Patera beating any of them personally back in the 70's, his best chances would of probably been against Brody, Mulligan and maybe Atlas.

[@Bushmaster10MM]

@@kevthegoat8774 if we're talking about a "unscripted" battle with any of the wrestlers you named... who knows ? Regular wrestling contests, Patera was a top star from this period to the mid 80's. All out shoot against any of the men you named would also be determined by one intangible...if Patera grabs anyone with the intention of hurting them... the fight could end quickly for almost anyone ?

[@Bushmaster10MM]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Agreed.

[@davidscott7626]

I would take Don Jardine aka the Spoiler over Ken Patera any day. Don Jardine was awesome, one of the best villains ever. Very Underrated as a performer.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

I am beginning to think he isn't under rated .

[@hubertvale5132]

Boyd Pierce- where do I get a suit like that?! 😆. Thank you Rob D for posting this . Best draw match I’ve seen in years!

[@algeborusas1883]

It was the height of fashion back then.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

He had them tailored . He had a sense of humor and loved wrestling . Boyd was apparently independently wealthy

[@Batman-wv5ng]

Don Jardin was big strong man

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

No where near as strong as Patera .

[@bobofwinnipeg9455]

Those look like big strong hands

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

Undertaker said that's how he got that move & would wait until he retired to start using it--class act

[@JakeHkd2]

Thanks for uploading, was a good match. Man Patera looks so jacked here, and the Spoiler had a pretty impressive upper body as well. Never know what you're going to get with these 70's matches.

[@alanstrong55]

Ken Patera came to his senses after coming out of prison. He had such a temper.

[@MrTsuruta1000]

I forgot how The Spoiler used to do those kip ups. Also he originally was called "The Super Destroyer" in the Mid-Atlantic Crockett territory.

[@teller1290]

I remember him in Carolinas like it was y'day (actually, c.'73-'75). Loved that guy. He claimed on interview maybe close to 20 yrs ago that Crocketts forced him out by leaking identity and claiming he had mask taken off in some backwater like Dillon, SC. Actually tracked Jardine down online in fall '04 and exchanged some e-mail with him til his passing in 12/06. His wife was a Canadian Mountie (RCMP) and she ran his web site. He wasn't even 70.

[@lutherberry8940]

Great match you never see the best in tv match

[@luisrivera9062]

I bet patera didnt feel like the strongest man during that whupping! , spoiler was great, the best claw

[@stevekapp7148]

Don't see too many heel vs heel matches.

[@85futureshock]

10:50 Before Taker's Old School, there was The Spoiler.

[@MrSmitty1074]

Gary Hart said that The Spoiler was legit tough.

[@JimMurphy702]

There's a video on KZbin of the late, great Gary Hart telling Don Jardine stories from a shoot interview. Serious badass outside the ring.

[@lamyronbutler7235]

the spoiler was the undertakers father

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

@@lamyronbutler7235 if you believe that i have TWO bridges to sell you

[@brianskoi]

Patera is massive here. Looks like he is made of stone.

[@AnkleSnapper72]

Patera was a beast in the late 70s/early 80s. Not having seen much of The Spoiler makes me keen to watch this too. I am not gonna get any sleep this weekend if you keep uploading stuff like this :)

[@JimMurphy702]

There's not enough stuff of Don Jardine aka The Spoiler online. Especially during his prime. Legit one of the toughest dudes in wrestling history. Also wrestled as the Super Destroyer in the Mid Atlantic and AWA during the early/mid 1970's (not to be confused with Scott Irwin who started wrestling as Super D in 1979). One of the first wrestlers I got interested in as a kid and still my all time favorite.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

I always thought I would really like The Spoilers style but I didn't . He was too slow for me and didn't work his mask gimmick well . You have to master pantomime to wear a mask because you have no facial espessions to sell with .

[@teller1290]

Man, I must've seen you at the matches. I worshipped Super D, c.'73-'75, in Charleston, SC area. The guy was great. Per shoot interview I heard 15 yrs ago, Crockett's wouldn't agree with him on how to develop Super D's character further and wanted to keep it simple for humanoid fans. As a result of disagreement, per Jardine, Crockett's Pearl Harbored by falsifying claim that he lost his mask while double-teamed by clowns Rufus R Jones and his "cousin" Butthead (kid you not) Jones. I remember it all being announced on Mid-Atlantic one Saturday morning but the film they ran to support it was bad and dark and unclear if it was even Jardine -and wherever it was supposed to have happened. I still remember quote from Jardine to interviewer: "I'd never lose to a no-talent like Rufus Jones." But that scam pretty much ruined his plans in Carolinas. Sad, because as Jardine said, "Super Destroyer angles 'were making nothing but money'." Funny thing is that they brought Jardine and J. Valentine into Mid-Atlantic due to lack of great singles wrestlers... and they run him off. I moved on after that I was so pissed.

[@philipbatiste2343]

I have been a wrestling fan since the mid 1970s. The Spoiler was the first masked wrestler that I knew. I remember back in the mid 70s there was a feud between The Spoiler and Cowboy Bill Watt in the NWA wrestling area. There was a wrestling match between Cowboy Bill Watts and Killer Karl Kox. The Sooiler interfered in that match by jumping off the top rope and applied the the claw hold to Cowboy Bill Watts after Cowboy Bill Watts had put the Oklahoma stampede on Killer Karl Kox. Is there any other wrestling fan that remembers that match?

[@SuprJoinT]

Yes that is one of my first memories. Around that same time (1975) is when Ken Patera put the Full Nelson on Bill Watts and made him cough up a lot of blood on TV. Patera was in a group with Kox, Spoiler, etc. It was his first or second year in wrestling. Patera and Spoiler would team with Kox, all the time against Watts & Dick Murdoch, or Buck Robley back then. Used to watch the show Championship Wrestling on WGNO 26 in New Orleans every Saturday at 4pm. Boyd Pierce, Leroy McGurk, and Bill Watts would usually do the commentating. Wish those shows were on tape.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Thats back when Leroy Mcguirk owned the territory . Jardine was tagging with Spoiler #2 , Bobby Duncum

[@pooddescrewch8718]

@@SuprJoinT Do you remember when Bill Watts and Dick Murdoch noosed Patera and choked the crap out of him ? Or Dick putting a galvanized trashcan over pateras head and beatong it with an ax handle ?

[@KevinWBrown-cm6fr]

The Spoiler was a evil figure.. Lol I loved him

[@dinofalcone6645]

Pat era should have been a world champ

[@pooddescrewch8718]

AWA Champion

[@pooddescrewch8718]

A match like this splits the crowd . Some want the Spoiler to win , others Patera , some yet want them to beat the snot out of each other .

[@AlwaysHalloween000]

jardine's feet look as big as andre the giants -scary guy that big and agile also

[@robertbishop5357]

Don was incredible in and out of the ring. A true tough guy. Heard a story once where he and Gary Hart were returning to a hotel with their wives. The hotel clerk said we don't allow whorls in our hotel. Don took great exception to this and threw the guy through a window. Can't blame him for that.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

Don Jardin was always on the juice and it made him mean as hell . A true Roid Rager .

[@scottwarren77]

Great stuff .t.y

[@bobofwinnipeg9455]

Texas had crazy fans. Chicago/Minneapolis we're almost the same. Winnipeg had my uncle loudest man in audience. Lol

[@jameslott4606]

wow the spoiler had an awsome dropkick

[@teller1290]

He could get around when he wanted to.

[@satchmo2]

Spoiler was in another league for a big guy

[@johnnyrodriguez1792]

The spoiler was great.real tough never backing up.

[@TheTerryE]

I was waiting for Patera to bear hug him.

[@jameslott4606]

heel vs heel a rarity in those days

[@nuclearguitar779]

Dutch Mantell Stated in interview with Hannibal TV that Undertaker got the idea of walking the ropes from watching the Spoiler.

[@jerrygreen3818]

That fart sounded funny😅

[@robferguson2525]

Lmao from Singapore

[@normancarr3015]

The Spoiler was my first great mask wrestler then Mr wrestling 2.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

The Assassin for me

[@WayneDucote-lo6sp]

The Spoiler Was The Man In My Book.

[@WayneDucote-lo6sp]

The Spoiler taught the undertaker them rope moves. Taker was a big fan of the Spoiler.

[@luisrivera9062]

Does anyone have spoiler vs mascaras out there, im a spoiler fan?

[@brasidas33]

The Spoiler strikes again

[@pooddescrewch8718]

You never knew what you would get in Houston . This match would not happen in other promotions . Two top bad ass heels going at it ? No way .

[@teller1290]

Why was Houston different? What was this promotion? I assume it was NWA- affiliated. Lubich!!

[@pooddescrewch8718]

@@teller1290 This is the Houston Promotion . Paul Boesch promoting

[@jhughes8160]

I Didn't know Ken Patera invented the Rick Flair flop!

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

They knew each other before they were wrestlers .

[@DixiePokerAce]

Where on earth did Boyd Pierce get that suit?

[@teller1290]

Who was Pierce?

[@Sargebri]

This had to be very early in JJ's career. Of course, he would eventually make his way to Florida and then to Mid Atlantic.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Thats just when he stopped wrestling . He was wearing rent-a-tuxes .

[@teller1290]

Ironically, Spoiler (or Super Destroyer) had been in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, c. '73-'75 and kicked up a pretty good dust storm with major heat matches with Sonny King, Rufus Jones, Bearcat Wright, Squawhoo. Sometimes teamed with Johnny Valentine...which was awesome.

[@Sargebri]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 hehehehe. When it was looking like Flair and Landell would revisit the Battle of the Nature Boys angle Flair would refer to JJ, who was manging Landell, as Porter Wagner.

[@dinofalcone6645]

What territory did Spoiler spend most of his career .

[@MrWhitewolf7]

Spoiler looks heavier then 270 pds. He looks close to 300 pds.

[@TheGamecock366]

HEEL VS HEEL

[@jameslott4606]

awww i wish spoiler had blasted dillon with that chair

[@teller1290]

I'm just glad he got the two shots in, plus Dillon getting caught alone in the ring was masterful by Dillon.

[@williambaxter4628]

No Gary Hart?!

[@Batman-wv5ng]

Don Jardin with beat Patera every time

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Patera was an attraction like Andre and Dusty and Tony Atlas . His job was to build your guy up then leave .

[@rbraghelli]

10:45 inspired Undertaker.

[@peterpapadeas6475]

Andy Richter is a fine manager as well as a solid sidekick to Conan!

[@joezavacky720]

Was this Spoiler Jardine or Ed White?

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Jardine is the only valid Spoiler

[@teller1290]

You tell 'em, sir. And the only valid Super Destroyer.

[@nicklondon4791]

Very hot match! Both are totally dominant heels and powerful wrestlers! Love Patera's singlet!

[@libra42ful]

I jacked to it too...Patera was a total wrestling stud in that singlet...

[@teller1290]

Yikes. Maybe I'm at the wrong channel here!?

[@nicklondon4791]

@@teller1290 LOL, sorry for our comments. To each his own, don't let the comments ruin your enjoyment.

[@BradleyVolk3]

Patera weighed 300?!

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Usually , yeah though he was about 340 when he broke in.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 yeah , he was large

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

I always thought that the cranial Claw was one of those holds that told you that wrestling was definitely fake .

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

@@charles97th The ankle lock feven moreso ...if you do not coubter or escape quickly the match is over .

[@teller1290]

And the useless (not to mention impossible to secure without cooperation) "abdominal stretch."