Donald Edward Gaston, better known as Don Carson (November 20, 1934 – March 16, 2013) was a professional wrestler and wrestling manager.

[5][6][7] He captured the AAC World Heavyweight Championship on August 27, 1964[8][9] and made his Portland, Maine debut on September 5, 1964.

Don later started teaming with The Red Shadow after Ron Carson left the territory in December 1967.

[15] The feud later reached its peak when Fuller and Steamboat beat Carson and The Red Shadow in a No Disqualification match with Herb Welch as the referee.

[15] Don and The Red shadow entered into a feud with Dennis Hall and former Carson enemy, Ken Lucas.

The two teams then met in a Texas death match on June 11, 1968, which Don and The Red Shadow won.

[15] Fuller and Welch beat Carson and The Red Shadow in a Texas death match on September 16.

Don and the Red Shadow then fought in two different no disqualification matches within 3 days of each other against The Mighty Yankees #1 and #2 and Dennis Hall and Ken Lucas.

[15] Carson headed to NWA Hollywood Wrestling in October 1969 in what turned out to be the biggest run of his career.

Carson won the Americas Six Man Tag Team Trophy with Karl Von Brock and Great Kojika on November 3, 1969, by defeating Black Hawk, Pepper Martin and El Medico in a match that was later held up due to controversy.

Afterwards, Carson unsuccessfully tried to defeat Man Mountain Mike with the help of Bobby Burns in handicap matches.

Golden defeated Carson in a Black Glove Challenge and won via DQ the next day in a match between them.

Carson got revenge by beating Golden in a lights out match on October 30, 1978, and the pair traded wins on November 7 and 8 of 1973.

[17] Carson defeated Tommy Seigler for the NWA Southeastern Television Title on November 15, 1975, and then began a feud with Robert Fuller soon after.

[15] The feud continued with Carson defeating Fuller in a loser leaves town match on July 23, 1976.

It is unclear how, but Carson and The Assassin won the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship in late 1977 and lost it on an unknown date.

They teamed up with Ron Wright to face the Fullers and The Georgia Jaw Jacker, who was a masked Bob Armstrong.

Carson won the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship with Dennis Condrey via forfeit on February 18, 1979, after the previous champs split up.

He and "The Big C #2" (Dennis Condrey) won the CWF Tag Team Championship, but lost the titles later that month.