Lionel Giroux - Acting
Personal Info
Birthday
1934-01-14 - 91 years old
Date of Death
1995-12-04
Place of Birth
Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada
Gender
Male
Lionel Giroux - Acting
Biography
Lionel Giroux was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Little Beaver. He is best known for his appearance in a six-man tag team match at WWE WrestleMania III in 1987. Lionel Giroux began his wrestling career in 1949, at the age of fifteen, and then began to wrestle for promoters in Quebec. He, along with Sky Low Low, became two of the most famous midget wrestlers in wrestling who had enough drawing power to command a large portion of the live gate for wrestling events. Giroux helped to create the comedy matches that have since become a trademark for midget wrestling in Canada and the United States. In 1973, Giroux won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated Midget Wrestler of the Year award. His last in-ring appearance was at WWE WrestleMania III in the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan in 1987, at the age of 52. Giroux, wrestling as Little Beaver, teamed with Hillbilly Jim and fellow midget wrestler the Haiti Kid, defeating King Kong Bundy and his midget tag-tea ...read more
