Big Van Vader, born Leon Allen White on 14 May 1955 in Lynwood, California, and who died on 18 June 2018, was an American professional wrestler and former professional football player. He wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, the Catch Wrestling Association, World Championship Wrestling, the WWF, All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah, and is widely regarded as the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestler of all time. Described as a 12-time world champion, he won the IWGP, CWA and WCW world heavyweight titles three times each, and his diving moonsault was voted the best wrestling maneuver of 1993. He was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022.
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