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Stu Bennett
Born (1980-08-10) 10 August 1980 (age 44)[1]
Preston, England[1][2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Lawrence Knight[1]
Stu Bennett[1]
Stu Sanders[1]
Wade Barrett[1][3]
Billed height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)[3]
Billed weight265 lb (120 kg)[3]
Billed fromManchester, England[3]
Trained byJon Richie[1][2]
Al Snow[1][2]
DebutJune 2004[4]

Stuart "Stu" Alexander Bennett[1][6] (born 10 August 1980)[1] is an English professional wrestler, who is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment. He performs on the Raw brand under the name Wade Barrett. He was the winner of the first season of NXT, and is the leader of The Nexus.[3] Bennett has had several ring names, and previously competed as Stu Bennett (his real name), Stu Sanders, and Lawrence Knight.

Professional wrestling career

Debut

Bennett decided to become a professional wrestler at the age of 21, and was trained by Jon Richie and Al Snow.[1][7] He made his professional wrestling debut in June 2004, using the ring name "Stu Sanders",[4] as a surprise entrant in a 30-man battle royal held by NWA Hammerlock Wrestling.[2] Sanders also performed at numerous Dropkixx Wrestling and All Star Wrestling events.[2][5] Sanders also competed for Real Quality Wrestling, and lost to Sheamus O'Shaughnessy on 24 March 2007 in London.[citation needed]

World Wrestling Entertainment

Developmental territories

Bennett participated in a tryout with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2007, and signed a developmental contract with them in October 2007.[1][7] He was assigned to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) under his Stu Sanders ring name, where he was defeated by Ace Steel in a dark match.[1] He later formed a tag team with Paul Burchill and the pair faced the Major Brothers in several matches.[2] On 2 January 2008 Sanders and Burchill defeated Colt Cabana and Charles Evans in the final of a tournament for the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship.[1][2] Sanders and Burchill held the title for nearly two months before losing it to Los Locos (Ramón and Raúl) in a four-way match also involving The Insurgency (Ali and Omar Akbar) and The Mobile Homers (Ted McNaler and Adam Revolver).[2][8] After WWE ended their relationship with OVW as a developmental territory, Sanders was moved to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) with several other wrestlers.[2]

On 6 May 2008, Sanders and Drew McIntyre, collectively known as The Empire, defeated The Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez) to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship.[4][9] They lost the titles back to the Nightmares at FCW's first TV taping on 17 July.[2] The team broke up after the loss, and Sanders began wrestling under his real name before changing it to Lawrence Knight at the 9 October FCW television taping. In August 2009, Bennett was renamed yet again to Wade Barrett, partially named for Wade Dooley.[2][5] Bennett describes the character of 'Wade Barrett' as being "an extension of [his] dark side".[5] After Josh Mathews and Byron Saxton were moved to WWE's main roster as commentators for the ECW brand, Barrett began working as color commentator alongside Dusty Rhodes.[2][10]

NXT and The Nexus (2010)

Main article: The Nexus
Barrett as part of The Nexus in September 2010.

It was announced on 16 February 2010 that Barrett would be competing on the first season of WWE NXT, with Chris Jericho as his storyline mentor.[11] His first appearance for NXT was on the inaugural episode of NXT on 23 February, when he acted as Jericho's ring announcer.[12] Barrett made his in-ring debut on the following episode of NXT, defeating Daniel Bryan.[13] On the 13 April episode of NXT, Barrett won the "talk the talk" challenge and was awarded his own custom made entrance theme.[14] On 11 May, Barrett was ranked in first place in the Pros Poll.[15] On the June 1 episode of NXT, Barrett won the overall competition, and a WWE contract, by defeating David Otunga and Justin Gabriel in the season finale.[16]

On the 7 June episode of Raw, Barrett was at the forefront of an attack by the NXT rookies, as they interfered in the main event match between John Cena and CM Punk, attacking both competitors, the announce team, and the ring announcer, before they destroyed the ring area and surrounding equipment.[17] On the next episode of Raw, Barrett and the other rookies (minus Daniel Bryan) demanded full-time contracts from Raw General Manager Bret Hart, who instead fired Barrett and had the rookies removed from the building. Later in the show the rookies attacked Hart and gave him until the Fatal 4-Way pay-per-view to decide on their contracts.[18] At Fatal 4-Way, the rookies interfered in the main event for the WWE Championship, costing John Cena the championship in the process.[19] The following night on Raw, Vince McMahon fired Hart and announced that a new 'anonymous' General Manager had been hired and the seven rookies received contracts. The group of rookies continued their path of disrupting main events, as they attacked both Cena and McMahon, who had been acting as the referee.[20] The following week, the group was named The Nexus.[21] That same week, Barrett was written out of the show as his work visa had expired and he had to return to the United Kingdom to apply for a new one.[22] With his visa situation cleared up, Barrett returned the following week.[23] On the 12 July episode of Raw, The Nexus, sans Darren Young, competed in their first match together and defeated John Cena in a six–on–one handicap match.[24] The following week, Barrett made his singles match debut on Raw by defeating Mark Henry.[25] The Nexus continued to feud with Cena and the Raw roster, resulting in a seven-on-seven elimination tag team match at SummerSlam. Barrett was the final member of The Nexus but submitted to Cena, causing The Nexus to lose the match.[26] After Darren Young was exiled from the group and Skip Sheffield was injured, The Nexus faced Cena, Edge, Randy Orton, Sheamus and Jericho in a five-on-five elimination match on the 900th episode of Raw on 30 August. Barrett won the match for his team by last eliminating Orton.[27]

Barrett received his guaranteed championship match at Night of Champions, where he was unsuccessful in a six-pack challenge match for the WWE Championship.[28] The feud between Cena and The Nexus continued at Hell in a Cell on October 3, when Barrett defeated Cena to force Cena to become a member of The Nexus.[29] The following night on Raw, Barrett won a battle royal to determine the number one contender to the WWE Championship, when Cena eliminated himself on Barrett's orders.[30] Barrett received his championship match at the Bragging Rights pay-per-view. After ordering Cena to help him win, Cena interfered in the match causing Barrett to win via disqualification, which meant that Orton retained the championship.[31]

Personal life

Bennett was born in Penwortham and lived in Preston until the age of six, when he moved to Wales with his family.[5] As a child, Bennett was a fan of "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith.[7] He supports Preston North End.[5] Before becoming a professional wrestler, Bennett was a bareknuckle boxer.[7] Bennett has a degree in marine biology.[5] He worked in a science laboratory and later in recruitment while training to become a wrestler.[5]

On June 15, 2008, Bennett was arrested in Tampa, Florida and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer (a felony) and obstructing an officer (a misdemeanor).[1][6] The arrest took place outside of Champps Restaurant and Bar (2223 West Shore Boulevard North) at 2am.[32] Bennett was released the next day.[32] According to FCW sources, all charges were subsequently dropped by police.

Bennett has two tattoos. The first is a barbwire tattoo on his left deltoid.[33] He later expanded it to cover the entire deltoid.[34] The second is a tribal design directly underneath the former tattoo.[33]

In wrestling

Barrett in Florida Championship Wrestling in 2010.

Championships and accomplishments

  • Dropkixx
    • Dropkixx IWC European Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[1]

References

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  5. ^ a b c d e f g h McKenzie, Donna (2010-10-09). "WWE's NXT big thing – from Lancashire". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  6. ^ a b "Individual's Charge Report – Bennett, Stuart Alexander". Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. 2008-06-15. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
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  20. ^ Keller, Wade (2010-06-21). "WWE Raw results 6/21: Keller's report on the fallout from the Fatal 4-Way PPV event, Jericho puts his career on the line". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2010-06-22.
  21. ^ Keller, Wade (2010-06-28). "WWE Raw results 6/28: Keller's ongoing report on NXT-McMahon attack fallout, Sheamus-Cena confrontation". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  22. ^ Gerweck, Steve (2010-06-29). "Two WWE superstars having work visa issues". WrestleView. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
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  32. ^ a b Gray, Richard (2008-06-18). "WWE Developmental Wrestler Arrested & Charged With Battery, Obstructing A Law Enforcement Officer". WrestlingNewsWorld. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
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  34. ^ "Bennett's barbwire tattoo expanded".
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  36. ^ DiLiegro, Philip (2010-03-03). "NXT TV Report for March 3, 2010". Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
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  38. ^ ""PWI 500": 101–200". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. 2010-07-31. Retrieved 2010-07-31.

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