Pierre Lefebvre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French-Canadian wrestler
Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1955
Place of Birth: Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada
Date of Death: 24-Dec-1985
Profession: wrestler
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Pierre Lefebvre
- Pierre Lefebvre (February 24, 1955 – December 24, 1985) was a French-Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name Mad Dog Pierre Lefebvre.
- He started his career at the age of 17 in 1972 in Montreal.
- He got into wrestling with his childhood friend Raymond Rougeau.
- In 1973, he quit wrestling and became a welder for two years.
- In 1975 he returned to wrestling.
- By 1976, Raymond Rougeau was in Atlanta working for Jim Barnette, and he would correspond with Lefebvre.
- Lefebvre would wrestle in Atlanta for GCW (Georgia Championship Wrestling) until 1979.
- In 1979 he wrestling for the Pacific Northwest National Wrestling Alliance affiliate.In 1980 he would then returned to Montreal for Varoussac International wrestling.
- He became very successful winning the International Heavyweight title.
- He won the Canadian International Tag Team titles seven times with Michel Dubois, Pat Patterson, Billy Robinson, and Frenchy Martin.
- He feuded with the likes of the Rougeaus, Gino Brito, Tony Parisi, and Dino Bravo.
- He then went to Japan in 1984.
- After that he started appearing for the World Wrestling Federation.
- He wrestled Akira Maeda for the WWF International Heavyweight Championship in a tournament final, where he lost.
- He made most appearances at WWF in house shows that were in Canada in 1985. He was called "Mad Dog' because of his look a like to Mad Dog Vachon. Lefebvre, Tarzan Tyler, and referee Adrien Desbois were on their way home from the matches at Centre Georges-Vezina in Chicoutimi on the evening of December 24, 1985 when they were in a terrible car accident.
- Their Ford Escort rammed a tow truck at 1:25 a.m.
- on an icy Route 175 in the Parc des Laurentides.
- All three men were killed; the driver of the tow truck was unharmed.
- The news quickly made the rounds, especially with the tragedy coming so close to Christmas.
- They died around the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.
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