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To all the wrestling fans we lost another great one big Van Vader aka Leon White Monday night at age 63 Vader had 2 years left to live due to his heart well big man THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES R.I.P. BIG VAN VADER AKA LEON WHITE

Man that stinks.  Vader was an all time great.  I also enjoyed his appearances on Boy Meets World growing up.  

I just saw this and quite sad.  Did he have any football cards?  I know he played for the Rams and I thought the USFL but never thought to look it up.

For those who don't know, Leon White was a tough SOB.  You hear that a lot about wrestlers and while you may believe its fake, he once his eyeball popped out of socket during a match in Japan.  He popped it back in and wrestled for another 12 minutes.  He was also quite agile despite his size.  I can't count the number of times I saw him do a tope rope moonsault, which is amazing for a man around 450 pounds.

R.I.P.  Vader.  IT'S TIME! IT'S TIME! IT'S VADER TIME!

Had the pleasure of meeting him a few years back. Nice guy and definetly much bigger in person. He will be missed.

Sorry to hear this.  My wrestling fan days were mid 70's to late 90's, basically until the end of WCW when outside writers came in and just wrote stupid stuff and sank the company.  Around here NWA/WCW were impossible to get on TV until the 90's and then I watched both them and the WWF, and when WCW was beating them in the Monday Night wars, that whole attitude era in WWF was a major turn off to me and when WWF bought WCW I was done with watching wrestling.  Vader is one of those guys who I never got a chance to see live but used to love to watch him on WCW Saturday night just flattening guys out, then I'd go out for the night with my friend.

I had no idea he was in his 60s. Definitely an all time great and one of the greatest big men ever.