Real name: Sylvester Ritter
Home: Charlotte, NC
Membership: Superstars, partners with Tito Santana, Butch Reed
A.K.A.: Big Daddy Ritter, Stagger Lee, Leroy Rochester
Finisher: The Thump (powerslam)
Background: Ritter, despite his reputation for being the toughest and orneriest, was actually a pretty nice guy. He'd slam you through a table for suggesting it though.
His background was mostly in football, but he fell into the profession of bounty hunting. He was good too; it was said once Ritter was on your tail nothing could stop him. This morphed into him being tougher than a "junkyard dog" and the name stuck.
He worked mostly out of the Mid-South. He made headlines when he vowed to take down the infamous Fabulous Freebirds. They in turn vowed to blind him, which they did. The fight made him famous, but his recovery and the hauling in Freebird leader Michael PS Hayes after beating him in a chain match? Legendary
JYD made enemies too. When his partner Butch Reed betrayed him and left him for dead, a masked hero calling himself Stagger Lee started showing up. No one was able to prove JYD and Lee were one and the same, but JYD reappeared on the scene some time later and Lee was never seen again.
Word of his exploits soon reached up north and the Superstars soon had a new member. Operating on a bigger scale, JYD went after Adrian Adonis, Greg "the Hammer" Valentine and many others. He was good, too good, McMahon thought. Given his background, he might start looking too close into McMahon's business.
So he was fired in 1988. Nothing fancy, just a simple 'thank you for your service but the budget must be cut'. JYD didn't mind it and went back south to continue his career.
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