1. Jonathan Boyd would act as a manager for Luke and Butch Miller as they competed under the "Sheepherder" name.
18 Facts About Jonathan Boyd
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On 22 August 1978, Jonathan Boyd defeated Ed Wiskoski to win his third NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship.
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Jonathan Boyd reigned for six months until he was defeated by PNW's fastest rising star "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.
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In November 1978, Jonathan Boyd won the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship for a seventh and final time, this time with Dutch Savage as his tag team partner.
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Jonathan Boyd returned to Pacific Northwest Wrestling in mid-1980, where he feuded with Igor Volkoff and Stan Stasiak.
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Jonathan Boyd teamed with Williams to drop the titles to Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco.
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Williams and Jonathan Boyd kept the upper hand for months as Robert Fuller recruited partner after partner to defeat the Sheepherders.
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Shortly after debuting, the Sheepherders won the gold from the duo through nefarious means: before the match Williams and Jonathan Boyd had bribed the Grapplers' manager Don Carson and promised he would become a tag team champion; Carson turned on the Grapplers mid-match to ensure the Sheepherders' victory.
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The Sheepherders' run with the gold was short-lived because, in mid-1983, Jonathan Boyd legitimately broke both his legs in a car accident, which forced the SWCW to name Bobby Jaggers as a replacement for Boyd.
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Once Jonathan Boyd was recovered enough, he began acting as the Sheepherders' manager despite still on crutches.
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In 1985, Jonathan Boyd began wrestling as a Sheepherder, but this time he did not team up with Luke Williams but instead teamed with Rip Morgan and continued the Sheepherder legacy of violence as the "Kiwi Sheepherders".
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Jonathan Boyd reunited with the Sheepherders in the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico.
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On January 11,1988, Jonathan Boyd defeated Ranger Ross for the NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship in Continental Championship Wrestling.
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Jonathan Boyd held the title for just over a month before dropping the gold to "Doctor" Tom Prichard.
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Jonathan Boyd only held the title briefly losing it back to Savoldi in January 1989.
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On 25 December 1989, "Lord" Jonathan Boyd lost to Rex King in his retirement match in Portland, Oregon for the same promotion that gave him his first break in the United States, Pacific Northwest Wrestling.
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Jonathan Boyd returned to wrestling on March 11,1991 for World Championship Wrestling's television tapings, teaming in a six-man tag team match with Mark Kyle and Joe Cruz in a loss to Dustin Rhodes and the Young Pistols.
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Jonathan Boyd died on 7 August 1999, aged 54, of a heart attack.