Paul LeDuc, one half of the LeDuc Brothers and a major figure in Canadian professional wrestling, died on the morning of Aug. 30, 2026, at age 89. He was the man behind one of the sport’s most durable tag-team acts, and his death closes a career that began in 1957 and stretched across decades.
For readers searching his name now, the reason is simple: LeDuc mattered in the ring and stayed tied to the business long after he stopped wrestling full time. He was born on Nov. 10, 1936, in Mont-Louis, Quebec, trained first in Montreal and then continued his education in Mexico, and entered professional wrestling at 18. From there, he became part of a story that crossed Canada and Florida, with title runs in Stampede Wrestling, Grand Prix Wrestling and NWA Florida.
The LeDuc Brothers were presented as siblings even though they were not actually related, and that was part of the act’s power. Paul LeDuc and Michel Pigeon worked as Paul and Jos LeDuc, with help from Stu Hart, and debuted together in Stampede Wrestling in Calgary before turning a lumberjack gimmick into a calling card. They took the International Tag Team Championship, then returned to Montreal and worked against the Rougeau wrestling family and Maurice and Paul. The illusion was strong enough to convince an entire province for years, which says as much about the performance as any title belt ever could.
LeDuc’s resume reached beyond the tag team. In 1971, he was legitimately married inside the ring during a live show. The team won the Grand Prix Wrestling Tag Team Championship in 1972 and 1973, then Wrestling in Florida as the Canadian Lumberjacks, the LeDucs beat Dusty Rhodes and Dick Slater in December 1973 to take the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship. He retired from in-ring competition in 1978, but he later worked for Quebecor, wrote about professional wrestling for Canadian Online Explorer and founded The FLQ in 2000.
That later chapter is the one gap left in the public record: The FLQ remains active, but the available account does not spell out what the promotion does or how large its reach is. What is clear is that LeDuc never fully left the scene. His last recorded match came in 2008, and his family’s connection to the sport continued through his son Carl, who followed him into the wrestling business. LeDuc is survived by Carl, Yan and Kim, and the final line on his career is not just that he wrestled for years, but that he helped make a wrestling story feel real enough to live beyond him.
