Before becoming a wrestler, Efraim worked at a telephone company. He also took part in boxing and lifting weights. While there, he began training under
Johnny Rodz and
Killer Kowalski in the sport of professional wrestling. While there, they had a memorable
feud with the
Anderson family (
Ole and
Gene). The following month, Jones and Cash
dropped the titles back to the Blonds. Jones won the title again in 1977, teaming with Tom Jones to defeat
Black Gordman and Goliath. He did, however, win quite a few matches on smaller cards against lower card or fellow mid carders like Ron Shaw and
Johnny Rodz. On one occasion, the two ended up as the final men in a battle royal and flipped a coin to decide the winner, as seen on the WWF
Coliseum Video 'Best of the WWF Volume 4' and 'Grand Slams' video cassettes. S. D. helped put over
Greg Valentine at a 1979 TV taping when Valentine locked in his figure-four leglock and refused to let go, leading to Jones doing a stretcher job and subsequently appearing in Madison Square Garden with his leg in a cast. He was also the tag team partner of
André the Giant on November 13, 1984, when André's hair was cut by
Ken Patera and
Big John Studd. At the inaugural
WrestleMania in 1985 he famously lost to
King Kong Bundy in an official match time of nine seconds, although the actual time from bell to pinfall was seventeen seconds. In any case, it would stand as the quickest match in
WrestleMania history until Kane defeated Chavo Guerrero in 11 seconds to win the ECW Championship at
WrestleMania 24. Jones was a workhorse for the WWF as he wrestled 240 matches per year during his career and twice wrestled over 300 matches in a single year with (302) in 1978 and (305) in 1984. Despite mainly being used as a
preliminary talent in the 1980s WWF, Jones garnered further recognition when
LJN created two action figures of him for their
Wrestling Superstars toy line. S. D. Jones was added to the
WWE Hall Of Fame on April 7, 2019, as a legacy inductee. ==Personal life and death==