Personal Life
Weaver was a deputy sheriff with Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. In his 50s, Weaver became one of the oldest people to take the basic law enforcement test and ultimately joined the sheriff's office. He spent most of his nineteen-year career transporting prisoners on the same back roads he'd traveled as a wrestler and promoter.
Weaver was married to female wrestler Penny Banner for decades. They had a daughter together named Wendi. In her self-published autobiography, Banner Days, Banner describes decades of physical abuse at the hands of her controlling, womanizing husband - who she referred to as "Johnny Ace" instead of naming him for the "non-smart" fans. She finally divorced him after what she describes as a drunken murder attempt when he nearly killed her with his wrestling finisher, the sleeper hold.
Weaver died of natural causes on February 15, 2008, aged 72.
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