Rejean Gagnon (born February 13, 1939) is a former

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professional wrestler Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to real-life wrest ...

who is best known for his appearances with the

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under the ring name Lumberjack Pierre where he was the half of The Yukon Lumberjacks.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1964–1975)

Lafluer joined

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's WWA in 1964 where he wrestled as a Russian Igor Volkoff. He left the territory in 1969. In 1972 he worked for

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in Japan as Buffalo Zarnoff. Also he worked in Portland, Vancouver, Montreal and Minnesota.

Various promotions (1975–1978)

He made his debut in 1975 in the San Francisco territory of NWA as Soldier Lebeouf. He was not successful in San Francisco territory, so he left it after a short time. He wrestled with

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and

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in CWA Memphis as The Russian Stomper. He used the same

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's Mid-Atlantic territory. He returned to Indianapolis, where the first fame rose when he started the gimmick Private Zarinoff Lebeouf as part of the tag team Legionnaires. He replaced Private Don Fargo and teamed with Sgt. Jacques Goulet. Fargo and Goulet had a fight. Due to this, Fargo left WWA and Zarinoff had to replace him as Goulet's partner.

World Wide Wrestling Federation (1978–1979)

Zarinoff left for

in 1978 as Lumberjack Pierre. He became one half of the tag team Yukon Lumberjacks with

Yukon Eric Eric Holmback (April 16, 1916 – January 16, 1965) was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Yukon Eric. Holmback spent the majority of his career in Southern Ontario, Canada, where he won the NWA Canadian Open Tag ...

World Tag Team Championship

On June 26, 1978, the Yukon Lumberjacks defeated

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and

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to win the

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which was the only title of Pierre and they held the titles briefly. On November 21, they lost the titles to

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and

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. Pierre would fight singles matches as an enhancement talent later on before he left the WWWF in early 1979.

Later career (1979–1983)

He came back to Québec for Varousac until a real shoot fight with

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and left the territory for Portland. He retired from wrestling in 1983.

Championships and accomplishments

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( 3 times) – with

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(2 times) and Roger Kirby (1 time) *

** WWWF World Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with

References

External links

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