Brian Wickens

Brian Wickens is a semiretired New Zealand professional wrestler best known as Luke Williams one half of the tag team known as The Sheepherders on the independent scene and in the National Wrestling Alliance and as The Bushwhackers in the WWF After leaving Stampede Wrestling the Kiwis began doing double duty in NWA Pacific Northwest as well as the Canadianbased International AllStar Wrestling around 19791980 as The Kiwi Sheepherders In 1979 the team won the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship on three occasions between 21 July and 5 August 1980 before they left the territory On 22 September the Sheepherders lost the gold to Dutch Savage and Stan Stasiak only to regain them a week later On 11 February 1980 the Sheepherders became double champions when they downed Dutch Savage Stan Stasiak this time for the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship Top faces Rick Martel Rowdy Roddy Piper teamed up in May to take the NWA Canadian tag title from The Sheepherders and in effect run the duo out of the Northwest region by August gaining the NWA Pacific Northwest tag titles when the Sheepherders left the promotion The next stop for The Sheepherders was a brief stay in the Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling territory run by Jim Crockett In MACW the two won the NWA MidAtlantic Tag Team Championship by beating Matt Borne Buzz Sawyer for the gold The Sheepherders held onto the gold for close to three months before dropping it to Dewey Robertson and Rocky Johnson on 12 December After losing the titles Luke and Butch headed for warmer weather as they traveled to Puerto Rico and began working for the World Wrestling Council as Los Pastores While in Puerto Rico the team won the WWC North American Tag Team Championship twice while touring the island