[3] Jardine claims to have come up with the name, believing it would draw heat from francophone fans in Quebec who hated anything English.

[3] In 1974, Humperdink went to Championship Wrestling from Florida and was put into an angle with Mike Graham and Kevin Sullivan.

During the thirty days, Lord Alfred Hayes began managing Humperdink's proteges such as Bobby Jaggers and Nikolai Volkoff.

[4] He worked for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Jim Crockett Promotions in the 1980s where he managed Greg Valentine,[5] Paul Jones and The One Man Gang.

[3] He managed the duo during the first-ever Survivor Series in a match that they lost when Bigelow was pinned by André the Giant.

[3] Bigelow and Humperdink left the WWF in mid 1988 and stayed together on the independent circuit[6] before together joining World Championship Wrestling in 1988.

Humperdink was still at the side of Bigelow in his feud with Barry Windham in a match at Starrcade[3] and later joined him in turning heel on Lex Luger in early 1989.

He worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the early 1990s as "Big Daddy Dink", a biker-type gimmick.