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Luc Poirier (born January 9, 1962) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) under the ring name Rambo and with the WWE (WWF) under the ring name Sniper. Rambo was pushed as the top star of CWA after the departure of the promotion's owner Otto Wanz and became a major main event star. He headlined the company's flagship event Euro Catch Festival twelve times between 1991 and 1999, with his each match for the CWA World Heavyweight Championship. He is overall a four-time world champion.
From January 1985 to June 1985, Poirier wrestled at WWE in Eastern Canada as a jobber. He also wrestled several try-out matches on Canadian television, but was not hired by the WWF. During this time, Poirier wrestled on a taping for WWF Superstars against Bret Hart in a scientific masterpiece in which Bret Hart was victorious.
Poirier became the promotion's top fan favorite and began feuding with Wanz's rival and the promotion's top villain Bull Power. On December 12, 1990, Rambo got his first match for the CWA World Heavyweight Championship, where he competed against Bull Power for the vacant title, which he lost. On July 6, 1991, Rambo defeated Bull Power for his first World Heavyweight Championship in Graz, Austria. Upon his ascent as champion, Poirier made his first successful title defense against Bull Power on August 18 and then defeated Mantaur on November 11. He headlined the first Euro Catch Festival event on December 21 in Bremen, where he successfully defended his title against Ken Patera. Rambo continued his successful title reign by defeating Terry Funk to retain his title at the second Euro Catch Festival in Graz on July 11, 1992. He then made successful defenses against The Warlord on August 22 and October 18 respectively. Rambo lost the title to Road Warrior Hawk after a year-long reign at the Euro Catch Festival in December.
Rambo regained the title from Road Warrior Hawk at Clash of the Champions on July 3, 1993, to begin his second reign as World Heavyweight Champion. Rambo made his next major defense against famous wrestler Ted DiBiase on August 22. He retained the title against The Barbarian in his fourth straight main event of Euro Catch Festival. He then continued his lengthy reign by retaining the title against Papa Shango at the 1994 Euro Catch Festival in Graz. His next major challenger was Mick Foley, whom he defeated twice to retain the title in the fall of 1994. Rambo would then retain the title against Rick Bognar in December's Euro Catch Festival and Jim Neidhart in July's Euro Catch Festival on July 8, 1995.
In mid-1995, Rambo entered a feud with his new challenger Tony Halme over the title. Rambo defeated Borga to retain the title in their first meeting on August 20, before dropping the title to Borga at Euro Catch Festival in Bremen on December 16. Rambo regained the title from Borga at the following year's Euro Catch Festival on December 21, 1996, to become a three-time World Heavyweight Champion. Poirier signed with WWE around that time and quit the CWA to join the WWF. His last match in CWA was at Euro Catch Festival on July 5, 1997, where he successfully defended the CWA World Heavyweight Championship against Duke Droese, and then subsequently vacated the title upon his departure.
In 1997, The Truth Commission joined the World Wrestling Federation, where they were initially managed by The Commandant. Tank and The Commandant soon left the WWF, and The Commandant was replaced by Don Callis. Kurrgan went on to compete as a singles wrestler, while Poirier and Recon wrestled as a tag team. At the 1997 Survivor Series in his birthplace in Montreal on November 9, 1997, the four remaining members of The Truth Commission defeated the Disciples of Apocalypse in an eight-man elimination match; Kurrgan was the sole survivor. The stable fragmented after The Jackyl instructed Kurrgan to attack Poirier and Recon after they lost a series of matches. Poirier and Recon took part in a fifteen team tag team battle royal at WrestleMania XIV on March 29, 1998, for the top contendership to the WWF World Tag Team Championship, but were eliminated by Kurrgan, who interfered in the match. Poirier and Recon briefly feuded with Kurrgan and The Jackyl under the name Armageddon before leaving the WWF and returned to CWA.
In November 2010, he and British wrestler Dan Collins put on a wrestling show for European Wrestling Promotion in Germany, which led to Rambo's return to the ring in April 2011. Poirier was also inducted to the European Wrestling Hall of Fame.
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