Canadian retired professional wrestler (born 1937)

Paul Vachon (born October 7, 1937) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is a member of the Vachon wrestling family. He is perhaps best known by his ring name Butcher Vachon.

Contents

• 1 Professional wrestling career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Championships and accomplishments
• 4 Electoral record (incomplete)
• 5 References
• 6 Further reading
• 7 External links

Professional wrestling career

Paul Vachon grew up as one of thirteen children of Ferdinand Vachon, a Montreal police officer. In 1957, he followed his brother Maurice into professional business, adopting his brother's, the "Mad Dog", vicious heel style and the moniker "Butcher Vachon". He wrestled in the American Wrestling *ociation, World Wrestling Federation (now WWE), National Wrestling Alliance and Georgia Championship Wrestling (later would become WCW).

He often teamed with his brother "Mad Dog" Vachon, with whom he won the AWA World Tag Team Championship.

In the early 1970s he appeared alongside his sister Vivian Vachon in the motion picture Wrestling Queen.

He wrestled under a mask as "Spoiler #2" for Jim Crockett Promotions' "Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling" in 1975. His angle involved getting revenge on Wahoo McDaniel, Paul Jones, and Rufus R. Jones for running Super Destroyer (Don Jardine) out of the territory. (In fact, Jardine left JCP on short notice and booker George Scott wanted a masked heel on the roster.) Vachon stayed in JCP for a few months and before leaving lost a series of matches against Paul Jones and Rufus Jones in which the mask was at stake (as was Paul Jones' U.S. *le in their matches).

Paul retired in 1985. Proving his talents extend beyond the wrestling ring, one of his final appearances was singing La Vie en Rose on Tuesday Night *ans.

Personal life

He was the adoptive father of wrestler Luna Vachon. He is the brother of wrestlers Maurice and Vivian Vachon and former father-in-law of wrestlers David "Gangrel" Heath and Tom Nash. In total, Vachon has six children and has been married four times.

After his wrestling career, Paul Vachon joined the NDP and ran as a federal candidate in 1988, 1993 and 1995.

In 1993, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and had half of his colon removed. Then, in 2003, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Vachon underwent 40 treatments, one on each week day for five straight weeks, to overcome the throat cancer. In addition, he had the disease burned out of his tonsils and his teeth were removed. As a result of the radiation treatments, he underwent reconstructive jaw surgery in early June 2009. Vachon also suffers from diabetes.

Vachon and his wife Rebecca travel to flea markets and fairs to sell therapeutic magnets, a business they began in 1995. He also self-published an autobiography *led When Wrestling Was Real.

Championships and accomplishments

• 50th State Big Time Wrestling

• NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Hard Boiled Haggerty

• American Wrestling *ociation

• AWA Midwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Maurice Vachon
• AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Maurice Vachon

• Cauliflower Alley Club

• Men’s Wrestling Award (2008)

• Eastern Townships Wrestling *ociation

• ETWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Cl* of 2010
• Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling

• NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (1 time) - with Maurice Vachon

• Mid-South Sports

• NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Stan Vachon
• NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Georgia version) (5 times) - with Louie Tillet (2) and Stan Vachon (3)
• NWA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia version) (1 time) - with Maurice Vachon

• NWA Hollywood Wrestling

• NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Chavo Guerrero Sr.

• Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
  • (Cl* of 2004) - with Maurice Vachon
• Southwest Sports, Inc.

• NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Maurice Vachon (1) and Ivan the Terrible (1)

• Stampede Wrestling

• NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (Calgary version) (3 times) - with Maurice Vachon
• NWA International Tag Team Championship (Calgary version) (3 times) - with Maurice Vachon

Electoral record (incomplete)

References

Further reading

• Nevada, Vance (May 12, 2008). "Paul "Butcher" Vachon". SLAM! Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-07-20.

External links

• Paul Vachon at IMDb