Back ستيف وليامز (مصارع محترف) Arabic ستيف وليامز (مصارع محترف) ARZ Steve Williams (Wrestler) German استیو ویلیامز (ورزشکار) Persian Steve Williams (catch) French Steve Williams (wrestler) Italian スティーブ・ウィリアムス Japanese "Dr. Death" Steve Williams Portuguese Steve Williams (wrestler) Romanian Steve Williams (güreşçi) Turkish
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| Birth name | Steven Franklin Williams | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 14, 1960 Lakewood, Colorado, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | December 29, 2009 (aged 49) Denver, Colorado, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Cause of death | Throat cancer | |||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Oklahoma | |||||||||||||||||
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| Ring name(s) | Steve Williams[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Billed weight | 285 lb (129 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Billed from | Lakewood, Colorado Norman, Oklahoma[2] Nagoya, Japan Shreveport, Louisiana | |||||||||||||||||
| Trained by | Bill Watts[3] Buddy Landel | |||||||||||||||||
| Debut | 1982 | |||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
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Steven Franklin Williams (May 14, 1960 – December 29, 2009), best known under the ring name "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, was an American collegiate and professional wrestler and collegiate football player. He was known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and is a three-time professional wrestling world heavyweight champion, having won both the Herb Abrams and Bill Watts versions of the UWF World Heavyweight Championship and the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.
In addition to his success as a singles professional wrestler, Williams achieved notoriety in Japan in tag team competition, winning the World Tag Team Championship eight times with notable gaijin tag team partners Terry Gordy, Gary Albright and Vader. His tag team success continued in North America, winning tag team titles in the Mid-South (UWF), WCW, and the NWA as well as winning the World's Strongest Tag Determination League twice with Gordy and Mike Rotunda.[1][4]
In 2004, Williams was diagnosed with throat cancer, and underwent successful surgery the following year. He continued to wrestle on the independent circuit until his cancer returned in 2009, dying that year at the age of 49. Williams was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021 as part of the Legacy Wing.
- ^ a b c d ""Dr. Death" Steve Williams". WWE.com. WWE. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ^ "King Kaluha Profile". Online World of Wrestling.
- ^ Shields, Brian; Sullivan, Kevin (2009). WWE Encyclopedia. Dorling Kindersley. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-7566-4190-0.
- ^ "Wrestling legend Steve Williams passes away". Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online. Retrieved December 30, 2009.