Austin Watson, Ph.D. (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and YouTuber is currently signing a contract with WWE on the SmackDown brand under the Xavier Woods ring name. She is part of The New Day, along with Big E and Kofi Kingston, where they are two-time SmackDown Tag Team Champions. They are also former Team Raw Tag Team Champion twice, with their second reign being the title of the longest tag team in WWE history.
He previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Consequences Creed , and was a one time TNA World Tag Team Champion with Jay Lethal as Lethal Consequences. He also worked for NWA Anarchy and other independent promotions under the name of the Austin Creed ring.
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Watson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He graduated from Sprayberry High School in 2004. Later that year, he began studying psychology and philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated with a master's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in philosophy.
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Professional wrestling career
Initial years and NWA Anarchy (2005-2007)
While studying at Furman University, Watson began training for a career in professional wrestling and, in 2005, began to wrestle part-time with the promotion of Christian Main Wrestling Rob Adonis. While at the World Wrestling Council based in Greenville, South Carolina, he developed his Austin Creed gimmick, which relies heavily on the Apollo Creed character from the Rocky series.
During his time at NWA Anarchy, Creed is part of a tag team named Awesome Attraction with Hayden Young. The pair had one of the longest titles in promotional history after beating Justice Served (Jason Justice and Mike Free) in Cornelia, Georgia on April 7, 2007. In 2006, Creed won the NWA's Most Popular Wrestler, chosen by NWA fans.
On July 12, 2007, Creed defeated Murder-One to become the first DSW Heavyweight Champion after promotion split from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
X Division (2007-2008)
Creed appeared on the Total-per-view Nonstop Action Wrestling's Glound Pay-per-view event, in collaboration with Ron Killings in lieu of Adam "Pacman" Jones. Creed wrestled with the name Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed. His union with Ron Killings is nicknamed Truth and Consequences, which is a combination of Nicknames "The Truth" and the nickname Creed "Consequences" as well as a play of words on game shows of similar names.
On October 21, 2007, it was reported that Creed had signed a contract with TNA. The signing was reported when Creed appeared on the Radio Trash Talking Radio show on October 23rd with Tommy Cairo and Sabian. The signing was also confirmed later at the Anarchy NWA event where Creed was presented with a contract by TNA Booking Director Bill Behrens. After Bound For Glory, Creed was not seen on TNA television for months after Murder was asked and then given his release from the company.
On February 10, 2008, Creed wrestled in a dark match before Against All Odds. He teamed up with Sonjay Dutt to defeat The Rock 'n Rave Infection. On March 13th episode Impact! , a promo video with the words "getting ready for consequences" shows the Creed training and announces that he will return it at Lockdown pay-per-view on April 13. The following week, the date reverts to April 10. On April 10th episode Impact! Creed made his comeback in the ring and defeated Jimmy Rave from The Rock 'n Rave Infection, thus qualifying for the Xscape match at Lockdown. During the game, Creed got rid of Shark Boy, but was later eliminated by Curry Man. Creed then wrestles in the first TerrorDome match at Sacrifice, which was won by Kaz.
At Hard Justice, Creed faces Petey Williams for the Division X Championship, but loses after a nuisance from Sheik Abdul Bashir. On episode 4 September 2008 Impact! , he won the number one competitor against Bashir for the right to face Williams again at No Surrender for X Division Title. However, the match was then turned into a threefold threat after Bashir repeatedly attacked Creed and eventually, Bashir won the game and the X Division title. In Bound for Glory IV on October 12, 2008, Creed was defeated by Bashir in another match for the Division X Championship.
Lethal Consequences (2008-2010)
On the October 30th, 2008 episode Impact! , Creed, with Samoa Joe, A.J. Style, Jay Lethal, Petey Williams, Eric Young, ODB and The Motor City Machineguns formed a young wrestler faction, known as Frontline, to oppose The Main Event Mafia.
On January 8, 2009, fellow Frontline members, Lethal, chose Creed to cash in their Feast or Fired bags, and the pair won the World Tag World Championship from Beer Money, Inc. champions. (Robert Roode and James Storm). Creed and Lethal are then named Lethal Consequences, a combination of their respective names. Beer Money, Inc. regained their title in a three-way match just three days later in Genesis. Over the next few months, Creed and Lethal teamed up with Motor City Machinegun to try and unmask Suicide. On the 1st of October 2009 episode of Impact! , Creed and Lethal are part of the 5 game ladder for the X Division Title match in the future. During the match, Amazing Red, who eventually won the game, rode the hurricanrana, which caused Creed to spew vomit after his head on the mat.
Watson was released from TNA on March 29, 2010. New World Pro Wrestling (2010)
On April 4, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced Watson, under the name of its Consequence Creed ring, as a participant in the first Super Tag J Tournament. On May 8, Creed and his partner Ibushi City were eliminated from the tournament in the first round by the Gedo and Kushida teams. Creed back to New Japan on 28 June 2010, in collaboration with IWGP Heavyweight Champion Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma in Tournament 6 Crown Tournament Sports J Golf Crown 6. After beating Tamon Honda, Kentaro Shiga and Makoto Hashi in the opening round, the trio were knocked out from the tournament in the second round by Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka and Tomohiro Ishii.
On July 10, Creed beat Brian Milonas, U-Gene and Tommaso Ciampa to win the Super 8 Super East Coast Wrestling Association Tournament 2010.
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
Development areas (2010-2013)
On July 22, 2010, it was announced that Watson had signed a development contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Watson, using his real name, made his debut for the development area of ​​WWE, Florida Championship Wrestling on July 29 in a tag team match, in which he and Percy Watson were defeated by Brodus Clay and Donny Marlow. After his debut, he was later added to the official FCW website under the name Xavier Woods. In October, Woods began working with Wes Brisco and they took part in the tag team turmoil on October 14, where they beat three other teams. On November 4, Woods and Brisco defeated Johnny Curtis and Derrick Bateman to become Florida Tag Team Champions. On December 1, Woods and Brisco vacated the Tag Team Championship after Brisco was sidelined with injuries. With Brisco sidelined with injuries, Woods teamed up with Marcus Owens to take Damien Sandow and Titus O'Neil for the vacant Florida Team Tag Championships, but to no avail. After this, Woods began appearing as a single competitor throughout 2011 and 2012, albeit without much success.
After WWE recruited its development area, FCW, to NXT, Woods made his television debut on October 31, 2012 NXT episode with Leo Kruger's loss. While taking victory in NXT over the likes of El Local and Jake Carter, Woods began using a gimmick from a popular culture buff in the 1990s that saw him apply his legitimate fandom of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z , and other 90s pop culture into matches and clothing. He stopped using this gimmick once he was called to the WWE main list.
Teaming with R-Truth (2013-2014)
On the episode of November 18, 2013 Raw Woods made his main list debut as he teamed up with fellow TNA alumni and former R-Truth tag-team partner to defeat 3 MB (Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal). The following week at Raw, Woods defeated Heath Slater in his debut single game while accompanied by R-Truth and The Funkadactyls (Naomi and Cameron). On the 29th of November episode of SmackDown, Woods started a feud with Brodus Clay after Clay offended with Woods using the entrance music and The Funkdactyls as his valet. That night, Woods suffered his first loss when he and R-Truth lost to Tons of Funk (Clay and Tensai). On the 2nd of December episode of Raw , Woods and R-Truth defeated the Tons of Funk in a rematch. On December 9th episode of Raw , Woods lost to Clay. On the December 11th episode of Main Evening, Woods and R-Truth defeated the Tons of Funk to end the feud.
On the January 8, 2014 episode of Main Event , Woods and Truth confront The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger) in a losing attempt. At WrestleMania XXX, Woods competed in AndrÃÆ'Â © the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in a losing attempt. Woods and R-Truth started a feud with Alexander Rusev and were defeated by him in a single encounter. After losing 2-versus-1 handicap matches to Rusev at Extreme Rules, Woods and Truth quietly split up.
Woods failed to win the 20-man United States Championship royal combat in May, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship ladder qualifying battle royal game in June and 19-man royal battle for an empty Intercontinental Championship at Battleground
New Day (2014-present)
On July 21, 2014 episode of Raw , after Big E and Kofi Kingston suffered another loss as a team in a series of recent defeats, Woods came to overcome it. He goes on to state that they can not "go forward by kissing the baby and shaking hands" and that is now "their time" and offering to form the cage. The duo accepted Woods's offer, and on the following day of Main Event, Woods succeeded Big E and Kingston for a decisive victory over Heath Slater and Titus O'Neil. On the July 29 episode of Main Event, Woods filled in the role of comments as he and his group watched the matches of WWE Tag Team Champions, The Usos. New Day is then separated temporarily on the 8th August episode of SmackDown, both Big E and Kingston return to an unmarked single wrestling match or mention the other two members of the group. Earth also joins the team's broadcast with Rich Brennan on August 28 2014 episode Superstars . Despite being dissolved on WWE television, Big E, Kingston and Woods resumed their alliance at home events. On September 26th episode of SmackDown, Woods competed in the # 1 Intercontinental competitor's battle championship, which was won by Cesaro.
On November 3rd episode Raw , WWE began broadcasting sketches for Woods, Big E, and Kingston, as a character, with a stable called "The New Day". The New Day performed their in-ring debut on the November 28th episode of SmackDown in an effort to win against Titus O'Neil, Heath Slater and Curtis Axel. At WrestleMania 31, Woods competed in AndrÃÆ'Â © the Giant Memorial Battle Royal where he was knocked out by eventual winners, Big Show. On the April 6, 2015 episode of Raw , New Day begins to develop the heel properties as they will start harassing other people's games to help each other gain an unfair competitive advantage. Woods will mainly talk garbage with their opponents and spectators during the game. In Extreme Rules, Big E and Kingston beat Tyson Kidd and Cesaro to win the WWE Tag Team Championship after a dash from Woods. Woods was then given a part of the title and the trio defended the title under the Freebird Rules. Kingston and Big E retained their titles in rematches in both SmackDown and at Payback, with Woods interfering in both games. In the Elimination Chamber, The New Day defended the title in the first Chamber Elimination Team match, in which all three members were allowed to compete. In Money in the Bank, Woods and Big E lost the title to The Prime Time Players (Titus O'Neil and Darren Young). Big E and Kingston will also lose their Championship re-match at the Battleground. New Day will win the title for the second time after they beat Prime Time Players, Los Matadores and Lucha Dragons in a fatal 4-way tag team at SummerSlam. The next night at Raw, after Big E and Kingston defeated Lucha Dragons, they were attacked by the returning Dudley Boyz, who ended up with Woods being inserted through a table with 3D. On September 14th episode of Raw , New Day defeated the Prime Time Players in a title game, setting up a defense against Dudley Boyz in the Night of Champions, which New Day lost by disqualification but retained the title. On the September 28th episode of Raw, Woods responded to John Cena's United States Championship Open Challenge, where Cena was held on disqualification after Kingston and Big E attacked him. The Dudley Boyz comes afterward to rescue Cena; This led to an impromptu six-man team match match between The New Day against Cena and The Dudley Boyz, where The New Day won after Kingston pinned D-Von. At Madison Square Garden, The New Day lost another title game with a disqualification, but Woods put through a table with 3D again. At Hell In A Cell, The New Day defended the title after Kingston pinned Bubba Ray. New Day will then defend the title in TLC in the Three-Threat Stair game against The Usos and The Lucha Dragons, defending the title.
They have another successful title defense against The Usos at Royal Rumble. At Fastlane, New Day turned into fan favorites as the crowd began to appear behind them and they started the League of Nations. New Day defended the title in the Roadblock after defeating Sheamus and King Barrett of the League of Nations. The following night, New Day, represented by Woods and Big E, once again defeated other members of the League of Nations, Rusev and Alberto Del Rio to defend the title. The three New Day members will then face the League of Nations at WrestleMania 32, where they will lose in a non-title match. The New Day then defended their tag team championship in Extreme Rules against The Vaudevillains after they won the # 1 contest tournament at Payback, where The New Day defended their title. On June 19 at the Pay-per-view Money in the Bank, The New Day successfully defended their titles against The Vaudevillains, Enzo and Cass and Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows in a four-way fatal-tag match. On July 19, in the WWE 2016 draft, Woods, along with fellow New Day team members, has been drafted into Raw . Three days later, on July 22, Woods, along with Kingston and Big E, won the longest WWE Tag Team champion in history, breaking the previous 331-day record set by Paul London and Brian Kendrick. After SmackDown established the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships after the brand was divided, the title held by New Day was renamed WWE Raw Tag Team Championships. On the WWE Clash of Champions, The New Day beat Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. On the 26th of September Raw edition, because Woods used their trombone to attack Karl Anderson, Gallows and Anderson received a rematch, but were defeated again. On October 31st episode Raw , The New Day revealed that they were captain of Team Raw for 10-on-10 Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination match in the Survivor Series on November 20th but they were the first Team omitted despite Team Raw still win the game. On November 21, Raw's episode, The New Day successfully defended their title against the only surviving team from Team Raw, Cesaro and Sheamus. The following week, they beat The Club to defend another successful title. On Roadblock: End of the Line, New Day loses Team Tag Race Champion to Cesaro and Sheamus end their record-breaking championship record in 483 days. New Day did not manage to regain the title during the next re-match. New Day will then host WrestleMania 33.
The night after WrestleMania 33, The New Day was defeated by Revival which debuted, after which The Revival will attack Kingston. The New Day also lost the following week, and has since been composed for SmackDown during 2017 WWE Superstar Shake-up The New Day debuted at "Talking Smack", a post-show for Smackdown Live in May However, 23, they do not wrestle or perform on SmackDown Live itself. On May 30, The New Day appeared on SmackDown Live and announced that they would challenge The Usos to the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship in Money in the Bank, which they won by countdown, meaning The New Day won the game but not the title. In the next month's rematch in the Battleground, Woods made a pin for The New Day to win the Tag Team Championship Smackdown. It also marks the first time Woods scored a pinfall win to win the championship at WWE. In Summerslam on August 20th, New Day lost the Tag Smackdown Team Title to The Usos. Then in August, Woods suffered a knee injury and had to be helped into the backstage area. In keeping with his comedic role, Woods still performs with other group members, but now he wears a brace around his feet. On the September 12th edition of SmackDown, The New Day beat The Usos to reclaim the title. The New Day lost their SmackDown Tag Team Title to The Usos in Hell in Pay-per-view Cells. On the 23rd edition of October, Raw, The New Day along with other SmacDown talents are ambushed by Raw Superstars. They reappeared on the 6th November issue of Raw in the crowd which caused disruption from Seth Rollins & amp; Dean Ambrose and their cost Title Tags. On November 14th edition SmackDown, The Shield led the attack with Raw Superstars and attacked Smackdown similar to that led by SmackDown and attacked everyone including New Day. In Survivor Series, The New Day lost to Shield. On December 26th edition of SmackDown Live, general manager Daniel Bryan revealed an 8-person tournament for the empty US Championships including Woods and Aiden English. Woods will beat England, however, he will lose in the semi-finals to Jinder Mahal. New Day failed to regain the title from The Usos in Clash of Champions in a fatal-4-way tag team match that also involved Rusev & amp; Aiden English and Chad Gable & amp; Shelton Benjamin. Woods entered the Royal Rumble 2018 game at number 12 but failed to win the match after being eliminated by Mahal.
In other media
WWE Watson characters can be played in several video games: WWE 2K15, WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, and WWE 2K18.
Watson's life gets the spotlight, along with Adam Rose and Corey Graves, at ESPN's E: 60 special on WWE entitled "Behind the Curtain", which aired May 5, 2015. She makes appearances in fellow wrestlers Emma's cooking channel The short-lived YouTube Taste of Tenille in 2015. Watson is featured by playing tambourine and trombone on the cover of the Postmodern Jukebox from the music video "What is Love".
In 2017, Watson made his voice debut as Vincent Mensah's character in the PlayStation 4 video game <2064: Read Only Memories . He also published The Book of Booty: Shake It. Likes. Never Be It with fellow New Day members Big E and Kofi Kingston.
Personal life
Watson has a PhD in educational psychology from Capella University.
Watson is a huge fan of video games. He has a Wingcrest tattoo of the Legend of Zelda series on his left arm. In 2015, Watson, under the name of his Austin Creed, started a YouTube channel called UpUpDownDown , where he invited fellow WWE players, game characters, friends and guests to play games. He also has a Twitch account under the AustinCreed user name. He won the 2W WWE annual tournament in 2015.
Following Dolph Ziggler's call to the "Bronies" in September 2014, Watson revealed himself as bronly in the next March.
In wrestling
- End step
- As Xavier Woods
- Rest Limit (Decrease elbow diving Ropewalk)
- Lost in the Woods (Inverted stomp barrier)
- Wizard that shines
- As Creed/Consequences Creed Austin ACT - Austin Creed Test
- CreeDDT (Hammerlock legweep DDT)
- Fire cutter
- MontiFisto (Three left-handed punches followed by a split followed by a right-hand hook)
- As Xavier Woods
- As Xavier Woods
- The kasadora skyscraper flips forward into a cart facebuster
- Surprise Culture (DDT Diving)
- Dropkick, sometimes up front
- Flow DDT to a kneeling opponent
- Hadouken/Fireball Blow (Push the double palm against your opponent's chest)
- Headscissors removal
- Dropkickness to the opponent draped in the middle rope
- Home Run (Tornado DDT)
- Honor Roll (Scream thunder, with a play)
- Cutting edge blades
- As Creed/Consequences Creed Austin
- Drag the arm
- Cradle back-to-belly piledriver
- Decrease fist Diving
- Press military double knee gutbuster
- Right hand hook
- Rolling the cutting line
- One-handed springboard bulldog
- Swinging cradle suplex
- Double team end move
- carry carry Fireman (Creed) followed by a drop in elbow diving (Lethal)
- Double team signature movement
- The military press (Lethal) and the one hand bulldog (Creed) combination bells
- Combination of Vertical Suplex (Lethal) and diving crossbody (Creed)
- Double team end move
- Midnight Hours (DDT (Kingston or Woods) Diving Combinations and Big Ending (Big E))
- UpUpDownDown (Pendulum backbreaker (Kingston or Woods) and a combination of double foot stomp (Kingston or Woods))
- Double team/triple signature moves
- Unicorn Stampede (Some stomp to the opponent's chest sitting in the corner, with frequent tags)
- "Extraordinary"
- "The Crisp One"
- "Cool Consequences"
- "Consequences"
- "The Valedictorian"
- "Living in America" ​​by James Brown (TNA/independent circuit)
- "Consequences" by Dale Oliver (TNA)
- "Get Funky" by 5 Alarm Music (NXT)
- "Somebody Call My Momma" by Jim Johnston (WWE)
- "I'm the Man" by CFO $ (WWE)
- "New Day, New Way" by Jim Johnston (used when part of New Day)
Championships and achievements
- Wrestling South Wrestling
- DSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- East Coast Wrestling Association
- ECWA Super 8 Tournament Champion (2010)
- Wrestling Florida Championship
- FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Wes Brisco
- NWA Anarchy
- NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Hayden Young
- Most Popular Wrestler (2006)
- Pro Wrestling is illustrated
- The Team of the Year tag (2015, 2016) with Big E and Kofi Kingston
- Ranked # 1. 58 of the top 500 single wrestlers in PWI 500 2016
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jay Lethal
- Bulletin Observer Wrestling
- The Best Gimmick (2015) The New Day
- WWE
- Tag Team Championship WWE (2 times) 1 2 - with Big E and Kofi Kingston
- WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship (2 times) 1 - with Big E and Kofi Kingston
1 Big E, Kingston, and Woods defend titles under the Freebird Rules.
2 When they first won the championship, it was called the WWE Tag Team Championship. During their second reign on September 5, 2016, the titles were renamed the Raw Tag Team Championship after Smackdown founded the Smackdown Tag Team Championship.
References
External links
- Xavier Woods at WWE.com
- Xavier Woods on Facebook
- Xavier Woods on Twitter
- Xavier Woods on YouTube
- Austin Watson on IMDb
- Xavier Woods Profile at Cagematch.net, Wrestlingdata.com, Internet Wrestling Database
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