Royal Kangaroos (1965–1977) Boyle made his professional wrestling debut in 1965, spending several years wrestling for
World Championship Wrestling in his native Australia. After several years, he and his cousin,
Norman Frederick Charles III, relocated to North America to compete as the
Royal Kangaroos, a name inspired by the legendary
tag team the
Fabulous Kangaroos. Boyle and Charles worked mainly for
Pacific Northwest Wrestling in Oregon, capturing their first
NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship from Kurt and Karl Von Steiger on 11 July 1971. They won the titles three more times in 1971 and 1972. Boyd would also work in the singles ranks capturing the main NWA Pacific Northwest title on 31 July 1971 when he defeated Kurt Von Steiner for the
NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship. Boyd lost the title to Dutch Savage only to regain it a month later on 28 November. On 28 December, Savage once again beat Boyd for the title and subsequently managed to keep it away from him. The team quickly became involved in a heated feud with
Jacques Rougeau and
Terry Taylor, clashing week after week at the Mid-South Coliseum with the Sheepherders brawling their way to victory time and again. Taylor and Rougeau redeemed themselves in the end by defeating the Sheepherders in a brutal "Coal Miner's Glove" match. Showing how incredibly resilient the duo was, they returned to the ring later in the night and defeated the territory's main stars Jerry Lawler and
Bill Dundee. The next feud for Boyd and Williams stands as their most memorable and certainly their most bloody and brutal as the team kicked off a long running feud with
The Fabulous Ones (
Stan Lane and
Steve Keirn). The "pretty boy", well polished Fabulous Ones made and the ugly, brawling savage Sheepherders made for the perfect opponents and repeatedly drew big gates all over the country. but soon turned brutal and often without a definite winner. In late 1982, the Sheepherders won the
AWA Southern Tag Team Championship from Lane and Keirn In May 1983, Boyd and Williams resurfaced in
Southwest Championship Wrestling, continuing their brutal and destructive ways. Their first target was the reigning
SCW Southwest Tag Team Champions "The Grapplers" (
Len Denton and
Tony Anthony). Shortly after debuting, the Sheepherders won the gold from the duo through nefarious means: before the match Williams and Boyd had bribed the Grapplers' manager Don Carson and promised he would become a tag team champion; Carson turned on the Grapplers mid-match to ensure the Sheepherders' victory.
Kiwi Sheepherders (1985–1986) In 1985, Boyd once again began wrestling as a Sheepherder, but this time he did not team up with Luke Williams but instead teamed with
Rip Morgan (a former flag bearer for the Sheepherders) and continued the Sheepherder legacy of violence as the "Kiwi Sheepherders". Wrestling in the
Continental Wrestling Association, Boyd and Morgan quickly made a mark on Memphis by beating their long-time opposition the
Fabulous Ones for the
AWA Southern Tag Team Championship on 17 June 1985. The team was soon stripped of the titles due to excessive cheating, but had the titles returned to them when Boyd and Morgan threatened to sue CWA management. Instead of taking the titles from the Sheepherders by stripping them, the Fabulous Ones took the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship from them the old fashioned way – four times in a row between 5 September and 12 October. with no side gaining a clear advantage in their feud. In January 1986, the Kiwi Sheepherders defeated the teams of
Koko Ware and Rick Casey and also the team of
Tojo Yamamoto and Dirty Rhodes to reach the finals of a tournament to crown new Southern Tag Team Champions, but in the finals they fell to the Fantastics. The loss to the Fantastics only intensified the Sheepherders' anger, bringing the feud to its high point as the two teams clashed in a "No DQ Loser Leaves Town" match on 20 January 1986. The Kiwi Sheepherders lost and left Memphis while the Fantastics rode a wave of popularity thanks to the feud. and won a fourth Southern Tag Team championship when they beat
Billy Joe Travis and
Jeff Jarrett in a tournament to crown new tag team champions. Their run with the titles was brief as Jarrett and Travis won the titles a week later He returned to wrestling on March 11, 1991 for
World Championship Wrestling's television tapings, teaming in a
six-man tag team match with Mark Kyle and Joe Cruz in a loss to
Dustin Rhodes and the
Young Pistols. His final match took place on August 10, 1991 in Portland, Oregon, in Pacific Northwest Wrestling where he went to a double count-out against
The Grappler under the ring name "Johnny Miller". == Professional wrestling style and persona ==