Dr. Luther

Len Olson (born October 30, 1968), better known by the ring names Dr. Luther or simply Luther, is a Canadian professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he works as both a wrestler and producer.

He is also known for his appearances in Japan for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, WAR, and IWA Japan in the 1990s.

Olson has also appeared in numerous promotions throughout the Canadian independent circuit in the 1990s and 2000s.

Olson was born and raised in Calgary, and was brought up with Stampede Wrestling.

He was trained by Keith Hart in the Hart Dungeon.

On April 12, 1991, Olson lost to Chris Jericho in CNWA.

He continued to wrestle in Calgary until 1992.

In 1992, Olson was invited on a tour of Japan with the Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling promotion.

Told to develop a character for himself, Olson donned a straitjacket and face mask and adopted the ring name "Dr. Luther".

As Dr. Luther, Olson would throw chairs and run into the audience, quickly becoming a popular and feared wrestler.

Olson teamed with Dr. Hannibal (Steve Gillespie).

He feuded with many Japanese like Tarzan Goto, Hayabusa, Mr. Gannosuke and Atsushi Onita.

He feuded with other wrestlers such as Sabu, The Sheik and Mike Awesome, who was known as the Gladiator.

In 1992, Olson held the AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.

In February 1993, he and Dr. Hannibal joined the original Team Canada, which included The Gladiator, Big Titan, and Ricky Fuji.

On May 5, 1993, Dr. Luther and Hannibal Lector (Dr. Hannibal) lost to Sabu and Sabu's uncle The Sheik.

By 1994, Olson left Japan and wrestled in various promotions.

In July 1995, Olson appeared with the Japanese promotion WAR.

He returned to the promotion in March 1996, regularly teaming with Big Titan.

He returned to Japan in 1996 and teamed with Freddie Krueger until 1997.

In August 1998 Dr. Luther competed in two matches for Extreme Championship Wrestling losing to Mike Awesome and Tommy Rogers.

In 1998 Dr. Luther made his debut in Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW) based in British Columbia.

On August 26, 2000, Olson was on World Championship Wrestling's WCW Worldwide as Mad Jack losing to Vampiro.

In April 2000 he lost to Kurrgan.

On November 23, 2000, Luther won the ECCW Heavyweight title by defeating The Juggernaut.

In 2001 he returned to FMW and won the tag team titles with Biomonster DNA.

He held the title for 373 days until losing it to Chance Beckett on December 1, 2001.

During the title reign, Luther retained his titles by defeating Sabu, Tommy Dreamer and Christopher Daniels.

He left in 2002.

After ECCW Luther left the company in 2002 and went to other independents.

He stopped in Portland, Oregon, wrestling for Portland Wrestling.

He lost to Raven on September 3, 2004.

His last feud was with Skag Rollins.

He retired in 2004.

In 2009 he returned and wrestled in Marysville, Washington.

In 2011 he wrestled in Hollywood as Father Dante.

In 2016 Dr. Luther returned to wrestling in ECCW.

Dr. Luther began working with All Elite Wrestling in late 2019.

On the January 8, 2020 edition of Dynamite, Luther made his first television appearance during a match for the AEW Women's World Championship between Riho and Kris Statlander as the fourth member of the heel Nightmare Collective stable (which consisted of Awesome Kong, Brandi Rhodes, and Mel).

However, the angle was badly received by fans and was dropped in February after Kong left the promotion to film the final season of GLOW.