Peter Stilsbury

Born 4 Feb 1958 · Victoria, Australia

Peter Stilsbury is an Australian former professional wrestler, best known for appearing in WWE as Outback Jack from 1986 to 1988. He portrayed a northern Australian bushman coming to America to compete in WWE.

Stilsbury started his career in Canada with Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling in November 1986. He was brought into WWE that month in response to the mainstream popularity of the Australian film Crocodile Dundee. Wearing an Australian bush jacket, he appeared in several vignettes hyping his debut by showing him in the wilds of the Australian Outback—specifically, the Northern Territory. In the vignettes, he drove a Jeep and drank beer with cows. In addition, as part of the storyline, he claimed to have learned survival skills from the Aborigines.

Stilsbury, as Outback Jack, made his WWE debut in November 1986. His wins mainly came over jobbers such as Jose Estrada, Steve Lombardi, Barry O, Barry Horowitz and "Iron" Mike Sharpe. However, Outback Jack also defeated well-known superstars such as Nikolai Volkoff and former WWE Champion The Iron Sheik. Eventually, Stilsbury started becoming a jobber himself, losing matches to high-level superstars such as "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase and Rick Rude. Outback Jack feuded with Frenchy Martin, and the two had matches featured on May 4 and May 25, 1987 episodes of WWE Prime Time Wrestling, both of which Outback Jack won. During th…