Jon Williams | |
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1px Williams at TNA house show as X Division Champion on September 6, 2008. | |
Ring name(s) |
Jon Williams |
Billed height |
No information |
Billed weight |
No information |
Born |
August 26, 1981 (age 29) |
Resides |
Northville, Michigan |
Billed from |
Windsor, Ontario |
Trained by |
Scott D'Amore |
Debut |
January 23, 2002 |
Jonathon "Jon" Williams III (born August 26, 1981) is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time X Division Champion and a former captain of Team Canada. He is also referred to by the nickname "The Canadian Destroyer", a reference to his front flip piledriver finisher of the same name.
Professional wrestling career[]
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004–2009)[]
Team Canada (2004–2006)[]
Various feuds (2006–2007)[]
Maple Leaf Muscle and feuding with Scott Steiner (2007–2008)[]
Teaming with Scott Steiner (2008)[]
Feuding with the Main Event Mafia and departure (2008–2009)[]
Independent circuit (2009–present)[]
Personal life[]
In wrestling[]
- Finishing moves
- Canadian Destroyer (Front flip piledriver)
- Sharpshooter
- Signature moves
- Canadian Legsweep (Tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown transitioned into a Russian legsweep)
- Cradle DDT
- Hurricanrana, sometimes while diving off the top rope
- Inverted facelock
- Leg lariat
- O Canada Nut Squash (Williams places his opponent in a Tree of woe, gets onto the second rope, steps on their groin and proceeds to sing "O Canada")
- Russian legsweet
- Sitout belly to back wheelbarrow facebuster
- Sitout jawbreaker often followed by a running spinning wheel kick
- Slingshot into either a headsissors takedown, a double knee gutbuster or a double knee facebreaker
- Snap swinging neckbreaker
- Managers
- Scott D'Amore
- Scott Hunter
- Rhaka Khan
- Nicknames
- "Little Petey Pump
- "The Canadian Destroyer"
- "Maple Leaf Muscle"
- The Definition Of Definition (bestowed by himself to describe himself in the TNA Impact! Video Game and by Don West & Mike Tenay)
Championships and accomplishments[]
- Border City Wrestling
- BCW Can-Am Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Martin McAlmond
- BCW Can-Am Television Championship (1 time)
- East Coast Wrestling Association
- Super 8 Tournament (2005)
- Elite Wrestling Revolution
- EWR Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
- IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Upstate
- NWA Upstate No Limits Championship (1 time)
- Pomales Wrestling Entertainment
- PWE World Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
- Prime Time Wrestling
- PTW Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked him #23 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2005
- Pure Pro Wrestling
- PPW Franchise Championship (1 time)
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- TNA X Division Championship (2 times)
- Finisher of the Year (2004–2006) Canadian Destroyer
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Best Wrestling Maneuver (2004, 2005) Canadian Destroyer
- Rookie of the Year (2004)
- New Korea Pro Wrestling Association
- NKPWA Light Heavyweight Title (1 time)