By Lori Carlson, Correspondent

Richard “Rick” Forrest Renslow of Prior Lake, a local landscape company owner and a professional wrestler who also went by the name Big Bad Trucker Daddy, the Wild Alaskan and the Ax Man, died Wednesday in Rochester, Minn. He was 53.

Renslow was a professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation and the American Wrestling Association. In recent years, he had helped to organize high-profile wrestling events in the area, including at Doherty’s Tavern and at Lakefront Days in 2004.

He was the owner of Renslow Trucking and Landscape, working as a self-employed landscape designer and contractor. He also was affiliated with Jackson Landscape Supply of Lakeville.

Renslow was diagnosed with cancer a month and a half ago, said his brother, Jim Renslow, of River Falls, Wis. “By the time they found it, it was very progressive. He had had one treatment of chemo,” Jim Renslow said.

Renslow was a member of the Cauliflower Alley Club, a professional wrestlers association, and a member of the Snow Drifters in Itasca County. He was active with the Minnesota Antique Tractor Association and was a founding member of the Acacia Fraternity (St. Cloud chapter).

He was born Oct. 1, 1954 in Minneapolis to Richard Sr. and Diane (Anderson) Renslow. He married Stephanie Lynn Bergstrom on June 10, 1978 at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.

Renslow had lived in Prior Lake for the past 15 years, his brother said. He also had a cabin near Grand Rapids and enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing, four-wheeling and snowmobiling.

Jim Renslow described his brother as a “devoted father” who touched many lives throughout the years. One of his two daughters is getting married on Sept. 20, he said.

Renslow was still active in the professional wrestling circuit and had many friends in the business. “There will be a lot of wrestlers at his funeral,” his brother said.

Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Sundayat Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, 4565 Pleasant St., Prior Lake. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Riverside Church, 10201 Nicollet Ave., Bloomington. A private interment will take place at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.