Whipper Billy Watson Whipper Billy Watson William John Potts, (June 25, 1915 – February 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson, and was a two-time world heavyweight wrestling champion. Watson was born in 1915 in East York, Ontario (now part of Toronto) to an English born father, John Potts and a Canadian born mother, Alice Mary Wilken. Watson began wrestling in Toronto under his real name. He was a member of the Scarborough Athletic Club in the mid-1930s and was wrestling on what were billed as amateur wrestling shows in Toronto. For four years
S. J. Watson Media interest in "Before I Go to Sleep" was considerable and Watson himself was the subject of a profile in the "Sunday Times" before its UK publication and "The Wall Street Journal" before its US publication. Watson has been profiled by Bookseller+Publisher and has also appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row being interviewed by Kirsty Lang. He has also been interviewed by Simon Mayo when "Before I Go to Sleep" was chosen as his bookclub book of the month. S. J. Watson Steve "S. J." Watson (born 1971) is an English writer. He debuted in 2011 with the thriller