Joyal trained to become a professional wrestler at a gym in the Loisirs St. Jean de Baptiste church in Montreal. He made his wrestling debut in 1958 in Ontario. That same year, he would immigrate to the United States. He held the
NWA Southern Tag Team Championship of
Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling two times in 1964 with partner Chin Lee. Beginning in 1965, Garvin began an approximately five-year stint as the tag team partner of
Ron Garvin that stated in Montreal. In November 1967, he wrestled for
Championship Wrestling from Florida and won the Florida version of the
NWA World Tag Team Championship with Ron Garvin, trading it with the team of
Paul DeMarco and
Lorenzo Parente. Garvin then began teaming with Duke Myers, and the pair's
manager was
Jimmy Garvin, the stepson of Ron Garvin. In 1972 in NWA Tri-State, the team won the
NWA United States Tag Team Championship. By 1973, he was working in NWA Mid-America, where he won the
NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship three times with Myers. Later in the year, he won the title two more times with Ron Garvin. The Garvins also held the Mid-America version of the
NWA Southern Tag Team Championship that year. He returned to the Gulf Coast in 1974, teaming once again with Ron Garvin, to win
Southeastern Championship Wrestling's
NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship. By the early 1980s, Garvin retired from the ring and went on to book for
Bob Geigel's NWA territory,
Central States Wrestling, in
Kansas City. In 1985, Terry was approached by
Pat Patterson and eventually was offered a job working for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) behind the scenes. His employment with WWF ceased on March 2, 1992, for allegations of molesting underage ringboys. ==Personal life==