Professional Wrestler, College Football Player. Born and raised in Lakewood, Colorado, he attended Lakewood High School, where he participated in football and wrestling. During a wrestling match in Junior High, his nose was broken and he wore a hockey mask to protect it, resulting in one of his coaches nicknaming him "Dr. Death." The nickname stuck and he used it as his ring name for all of his 27 years in the professional ring. After high school, he attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was named All-American for his outstanding performance on the football field and on the University of Oklahoma wrestling team. Despite his budding football career, he preferred wrestling, and upon his graduation in 1981, he entered the professional wrestling career field. Training under "Cowboy Bill" Watts (considered to be one of the best promoters in the business) and Buddy Landel (considered one of the best wrestlers in the world), he began his professional career in 1982 with the Mid-South Wrestling (MSW), which four years later became the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF). In 1986, he defeated Ray "Big Bubba Rogers" Traylor to win the UWF Heavyweight championship, just one of several titles that he would hold for the next ten years, setting an undefeated record winning streak from 1986 to 1997. In 2004, he was diagnosed with throat cancer, and had his voice box removed. Despite this medical setback, he continued to wrestle professionally, mostly in Japan in All-Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he won a large following. Although told his cancer was gone, it returned in late 2005, and he began medical treatments again. With the return of his cancer, he became a devout Christian, and changed his professional name from Dr. Death to Dr. Life, reflecting the change in his personal philosophy of life and living. In 2007, Williams published his autobiography, "Steve Williams: How Dr. Death became Dr. Life." When Mitsuhara Misawa, one of his greatest foes in the AJPW ring, and one of his best friends outside the ring, passed away in June 2009, Williams decided to retire, and wrestled his last match on October 25, 2009. In 2020, Williams was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame via the Legacy Wing.