Wade Barret Bio

  Wade Barret Bio

 

Name                       :                    Stuart Alexender Bennett

Ring Name              :                    Wade Barret

Birth Date               :                    10 Aug 1980

Birth Place              :                    Lancashire, England

 

 

 

 

Mini Bio

Stuart Alexander "Stu" Bennett (conceived 10 August 1980) is an English expert wrestler, on-screen character, and previous uncovered knuckle boxer, best known for his residency with WWE under the ring name Wade Barrett.

That person won the primary period of NXT in 2010 and made his Raw presentation on 7 June of that year, ascending to unmistakable quality as the pioneer of The Nexus, made out of the rest of the NXT new kids on the block of season 1. He featured five WWE pay-per-view occasions amid the rest of 2010, trying for the WWE Championship in three of those. Barrett shaped the Corre with previous Nexus individuals Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel in January 2011 and won his first Intercontinental Championship, a title that he has won general five times. In 2013, he turned out to be Bad News Barrett until turning into the twentieth King of the Ring champ in 2015 and changing his ring name to King Barrett. He cleared out WWE in May 2016.

Full Bio

Early life

Bennett was conceived in Penwortham, Lancashire. He lived in Preston, Lancashire until the age of six, when he moved to Wales with his family. He was roused by his godlike object Davey Boy Smith to end up an expert wrestler, and named the WWF Intercontinental Championship match in the headliner of SummerSlam 1992 (amongst Smith and Bret Hart, another adolescence saint) as his unsurpassed most loved match. He earned a degree in sea life science from the University of Liverpool, working in a science laboratory and as an enrollment specialist while preparing to end up a wrestler.

Uncovered knuckle boxing career

While living in Liverpool in his mid twenties, Bennett turned into a champion uncovered knuckle boxer, going ahead to battle in different areas all through Europe. He contended in a match named by the exposed knuckle underworld as "The Battle of Buda", in which he crushed a respectable adversary for a generous money prize. Afterwards, as he strolled through a back road looking for a taxi to the air terminal, Bennett was cut with an eight-inch cutting edge by somebody who endeavored to take the money. He has declined to expand on the episode for legitimate reasons, yet the attacker caused genuine wounds, and Bennett got away with the money in spite of critical blood misfortune. The assault left him with a 12-inch scar that extends from his upper back to mostly down his privilege triceps and the punches he took amid his uncovered knuckle profession left him with a distorted nose, yet he has communicated no misgiving over that time of his life. He consolidated his exposed knuckle vocation into his WWE trick at the solicitation of Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, being acquainted with the WWE group of onlookers as an European exposed knuckle champion who had battled in the city of Europe. His Wasteland move is named after the site of a hefty portion of his fights.

Early vocation

Bennett chose to end up an expert wrestler at 21, years old and was prepared by Jon Ritchie and Al Snow. He made his expert wrestling debut in June 2004, utilizing the ring name Stu Sanders, as a shock participant in a 30-man fight illustrious held by NWA UK Hammerlock Wrestling. Sanders additionally performed at various Dropkixx Wrestling, Real Quality Wrestling and All Star Wrestling events, and in addition wrestling in Wales for Welsh Wrestling. In June 2005 he beat Danny Beckwith for the Dropkixx IWC Heavyweight Championship. In 2005, he fought with Nick Aldis and Danny Dexter in Dropkixx Wrestling.

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

Ohio Valley Wrestling

In the wake of showing up as a major aspect of a security group on 13 November 2006 scene of Raw in Manchester, Barrett took part in a tryout with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) soon thereafter. He had another tryout in 2007, and marked a formative contract with them in October. He was doled out to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) under his Stu Sanders ring name, where he crushed Ace Steel in a dim match. He later framed a label group with Paul Burchill and the pair confronted the Major Brothers in a few matches. On January 2,2008 Sanders and Burchill vanquished Colt Cabana and Charles Evans in the last of a competition for the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship. Sanders and Burchill held the title for about two months before losing it to Los Locos (Ramón and Raúl) in a four-manner coordinate additionally including The Insurgency (Ali and Omar Akbar) and The Mobile Homers (Ted McNaler and Adam Revolver).

Florida Championship Wrestling

After WWE finished their association with OVW as a formative domain, Sanders was moved to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) with a few other wrestlers. On 6 May 2008, Sanders and Drew McIntyre, by and large known as The Empire, crushed The Puerto Rica Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez) to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles back to the Nightmares at FCW's first TV taping on 17 July. The group separated after the misfortune, and Sanders started wrestling under his genuine name under the steady gaze of transforming it to Lawrence Knight at 9 October FCW TV taping. On 19 February 2009, Knight declared that he was the new FCW pundit, close by Dusty Rhodes. He got to be shading analyst because of a harm, in which he tore his Latissimus dorsi muscle and required surgery. In August 2009, Bennett was renamed once more to Wade Barrett, somewhat named for Wade Dooley. He depicted the character of Barrett similar to an augmentation of his "dim side". He came back to in-ring rivalry in FCW in December 2009.

NXT, the Nexus, and the Corre

Barrett contended on the principal period of NXT, with Chris Jericho as his storyline mentor. His first appearance for NXT was on the inaugural scene of NXT on 23 February, when he went about as Jericho's ring announcer. Barrett made his in-ring debut on the accompanying scene of NXT, overcoming Daniel Bryan. On 13 April scene of NXT, Barrett won the "talk the discussion" challenge and was granted his own particular hand crafted passage theme. On 11 May, Barrett was positioned in the lead position in the Pros Poll. On the 1 June 2010 scene of NXT, Barrett won the general rivalry and a WWE contract, by crushing Gabriel and David Otunga in the season finale.

On the 7 June 2010 release of Raw, Barrett was at the cutting edge of an assault by the NXT tenderfoots, as they meddled in the headliner match between John Cena and CM Punk, assaulting both contenders, the Straight Edge Society, the report group, the timekeeper and the ring host, Justin Roberts, before they obliterated the ring range and encompassing gear. Cena specifically was vigorously focused by the tenderfoots, who hit him with their completing moves. On the 14 June 2010 version of Raw, Barrett and alternate new kids on the block (short Daniel Bryan) requested full-time contracts from Raw General Manager Bret Hart, who rather let go Barrett and had the new kids on the block expelled from the building. Later in the appear, the new kids on the block assaulted Hart and gave him until the Fatal 4-Way pay-per-perspective to settle on their contracts. At Fatal 4-Way, the new kids on the block meddled in the headliner for the WWE Championship, costing Cena the match and the title in the process to Sheamus. The next night on Raw, Vince McMahon terminated Hart and declared that another "unknown" General Manager had been procured and the six new kids on the block got WWE contracts (Barrett's agreement was restored after he was initially let go the earlier week). 

The gathering of new kids on the block proceeded with their way of upsetting headliners, as they assaulted both Cena and McMahon, who had been going about as the ref on the 28 June 2010 version of Raw. On the 5 July 2010 release of Raw, the gathering was named The Nexus. That same week, Barrett was missing from Raw as his work visa had lapsed and he needed to come back to the United Kingdom to apply for another one. With his visa circumstance cleared up, Barrett gave back the accompanying week. On the 12 July 2010 release of Raw, the Nexus (who were without Darren Young due to being harmed in an assault by Cena the earlier week) contended in their first match together and crushed Cena in a 6–on–1 debilitation match after Gabriel hit Cena with the 450° splash. The next week, Barrett made his singles match debut on Raw by overcoming Mark Henry. The Nexus kept on fighting with Cena and the Raw program, bringing about a seven-on-seven end label group match at SummerSlam. Barrett was the last individual from the Nexus however submitted to Cena, creating the Nexus to lose the match. After Young was ousted from the gathering for losing a match to Cena the night after SummerSlam and Skip Sheffield was harmed at a live occasion in Hawaii two evenings later, the Nexus confronted Cena, Edge, Randy Orton, Sheamus and Jericho in a five-on-five end match on the 30 August 2010 version of Raw, which Barrett won by sticking Orton.

Barrett got his ensured title match from winning NXT at Night of Champions, where he was unsuccessful in a six-pack challenge match for the WWE Championship, regardless of disposing of Cena. The quarrel amongst Cena and the Nexus proceeded at Hell in a Cell on 3 October, when Barrett crushed Cena to constrain Cena to wind up an individual from the Nexus. The next night on Raw, Barrett, with the assistance of whatever is left of the Nexus, won a fight illustrious to decide the main contender to the WWE Championship, when Cena dispensed with himself on Barrett's orders. Barrett got his title match against Randy Orton at the Bragging Rights pay-per-view. Subsequent to requesting Cena to help him win, Cena meddled in the match making Barrett win through preclusion, which implied that Orton held the championship. The next night, Barrett was conceded a rematch at the Survivor Series pay-per-view, and permitted to pick a visitor arbitrator. He picked Cena, expressing that if Barrett won the match and the WWE title, Cena would be permitted to leave the Nexus; in any case if Barrett neglected to win the title, Cena would be fired. 

At Survivor Series, Barrett was unsuccessful in winning the WWE Championship from Orton after Cena pushed him into a RKO by Orton. Cena was let go according to the match stipulation after Survivor Series. Because of Cena's obstruction, Barrett got a rematch for the title the next night on Raw, however was assaulted by the let go Cena, "costing" him the match. After Cena assaulted a few individuals from the Nexus throughout the following couple of weeks, they requested that Barrett re-instate him, or be banished from the group. On the 13 December 2010 version of Raw, Barrett concurred and rehired Cena on the condition Cena confronts Barrett in a Chairs match at the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view, which Cena won in the wake of dropping 23 steel seats on Barrett. Barrett showed up since the TLC pay-per-view on 3 January 2011 release of Raw, where he went up against CM Punk, who had assumed control over the authority of the Nexus in his nonappearance. Punk gave Barrett the chance to recapture the administration, expressing that on the off chance that he won a three-way steel confine match including Orton and Sheamus to decide the main contender for The Miz's WWE Championship, Punk would surrender the initiative, as well as work for Barrett's Nexus. In any case, amid the match, Punk came down to ringside, assaulted Barrett as he was going to win and removed Barrett's Nexus armband, typically expelling him from the Nexus, bringing about Barrett losing the match. 

At the TV recordings of the 10 January 2011 release of SmackDown the following day, Barrett showed up since 1 October, this time by assaulting Big Show. The next week, he was joined by Ezekiel Jackson and his previous Nexus stablemates Gabriel and Slater, who had left the gathering the past Monday for  and the gathering named themselves The Corre. Barrett later met all requirements for the Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight Championship, however missed the mark subsequent to being the primary man disposed of by Big Show. At the TV recordings of the 25 March 2011 version of SmackDown, Barrett crushed Kofi Kingston to win the Intercontinental Championship. At WrestleMania XXVII, The Corre were vanquished in an eight-man label group match by the group of Kingston, Big Show, Kane and Santino Marella. Barrett went ahead to effectively guard his title against Kingston on the 22 April 2011 version of SmackDown. On the 6 May 2011 version of SmackDown, Barrett, Gabriel and Slater assaulted Jackson, expelling him from the group. On the 13 May 2011 version of SmackDown, Barrett then tested Jackson to a match for the Intercontinental Championship at the Over the Limit pay-per-perspective and Jackson acknowledged. At the occasion, Gabriel and Slater assaulted Jackson amid the match, bringing about a preclusion, however Barrett held the title as a title can't change hands through disqualification. He then shielded his Intercontinental title against Jackson again on the 3 June 2011 version of SmackDown. Amid this match, Jackson tossed Barrett out of the ring, bringing about a countout, however at the end of the day, Barrett held the title as a title can't change hands by means of countout. Barrett then educated The Corre to assault Jackson, however relinquished Gabriel and Slater, whom Jackson fought off. The next week, The Corre broke up after Barrett, escaping from Jackson, left Gabriel and Slater in a six-man label group match against Jackson and The Usos, making them lose the match. At Capitol Punishment, Barrett lost the Intercontinental Championship to Jackson, and neglected to win his rematch for the title on 24 June scene of SmackDown. On 1 July scene of SmackDown, Barrett was declared to be one of the members for the SmackDown Money in the Bank match at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, confronting Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Kane, Sin Cara, Daniel Bryan, Cody Rhodes and Sheamus. The match was won by Daniel Bryan, starting a competition between the two. At SummerSlam, Barrett vanquished Bryan in a singles match. He then had a short quarrel with Sheamus, where he lost on three occasions.

The Barrett Barrage

On 21 October scene of SmackDown, Barrett released his past organizations together as an "army of parasites" and asserted that the main individual he required for achievement was himself. He promised that the "Barrett Barrage" was just barely starting. Barrett tailed this declaration by beating Daniel Bryan. The following week, he started a triumphant streak, vanquishing John Morrison, Trent Barreta, Sheamus, and Randy Orton in singles competition. In November, he started fighting with Orton, and both were reported as contradicting group skippers for Survivor Series. Barrett's triumphant streak was broken on 14 November scene of Raw, when he was crushed by Orton by means of exclusion after Team Barrett assaulted Orton. Group Barrett crushed Team Orton at Survivor Series, with Barrett and Cody Rhodes being the sole survivors of the match. On 25 November scene of SmackDown, Barrett contended in a deadly four-manner match against Orton, Cody Rhodes, and Daniel Bryan to decide the main contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Bryan won.

Barrett proceeded with his quarrel with Orton by assaulting and diverting him amid matches. On 9 December scene of SmackDown, Barrett and Orton were put into two Beat the Clock matches, with the champ picking the stipulation for their match at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs. Barrett crushed Ezekiel Jackson in 7:53, yet Orton beat Dolph Ziggler in 7:51 and picked a Table match. At TLC, Orton vanquished Barrett in the wake of hitting the RKO in mid-air, with Barrett arriving through the table. On 23 December scene of SmackDown, they fought backstage, finishing when Orton hit Barrett with the RKO onto a car. This prompted a Falls Count Anywhere coordinate the following week, where Barrett pushed Orton down an arrangement of stairs before leaving through the door. Orton endured a herniated plate thus, taking him off TV for various weeks. After Orton came back from damage in late January 2012, he disposed of Barrett from the 2012 Royal Rumble match. On version of 3 February of SmackDown, Orton crushed Barrett in a No Disqualifications match to end the feud.

At Elimination Chamber, Barrett neglected to catch the World Heavyweight Championship subsequent to being wiped out by Santino Marella. The next night on Raw, Barrett endured an in part separated elbow after Big Show tossed Dolph Ziggler at him amid a fight illustrious, and was taken off television.

In August 2012, WWE disclosed vignettes advancing Barrett's arrival, indicating Barrett battling at an underground battle club trying to "reignite the flame". Barrett, with an altogether new look, made his arrival on 7 September SmackDown, crushing Yoshi Tatsu. He then went on a triumphant streak, vanquishing wrestlers including Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kidd, and Zack Ryder, among others. His first misfortune went ahead 8 October Raw, when he lost a non-title match to World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus through preclusion after Big Show interfered. Barrett endured his first pinfall misfortune on 19 October scene of SmackDown, in a Lumberjack match against Sheamus. At Survivor Series, Barrett was a piece of the triumphant group of Dolph Ziggler against the group of Mick Foley, where he disposed of Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston before being dispensed with by The Miz.

The next night on Raw, Barrett vanquished Kingston in a non-title match to win a match for the Intercontinental Championship. Barrett, still number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship, got a shot at the United States Championship on 3 December Raw, against champion Antonio Cesaro, Kofi Kingston, and R-Truth in a lethal four-manner match, yet was unsuccessful. Barrett neglected to win the Intercontinental Championship from Kingston at the TLC pay-per-view. Two weeks after the fact, on 31 December Raw, Barrett vanquished Kingston to win the Intercontinental Championship for the second time in his career. Barrett made his first effective title resistance four days after the fact on SmackDown, overcoming Kingston in a rematch. Barrett entered the 2013 Royal Rumble coordinate and was disposed of by the appearing Bo Dallas, yet Barrett later came back to wipe out Dallas as well. This began a quarrel between the twosome, with Barrett testing Dallas to a non-title coordinate the following night on Raw, and Dallas pulling off a surprise victory. During the month of February, Barrett and Dallas kept on fighting with the two assaulting each other backstage. On 21 March taping of NXT, Wade Barrett vanquished Bo Dallas for another fruitful title defense. During the WrestleMania 29 pre-appear, Barrett lost the Intercontinental Championship to The Miz, anyway, he would recover the title in a rematch the next night on Raw. On 20 May Raw, Barrett and Fandango were crushed by Chris Jericho and The Miz in a label group match after Fandango left the match to move at ringside and Miz submitted Barrett with the figure-four leglock. Barrett then lost an Intercontinental Championship match to The Miz by preclusion, after Fandango meddled, prompting Barrett assaulting both Miz and Fandango post-match. On the following scene of Raw, Barrett was crushed by Fandango in a non-title match after The Miz, who was extraordinary visitor arbitrator, gave Barrett a Skull Crushing Finale. In June, Fandango endured a honest to goodness blackout, expelling him from the fight amongst Barrett and Miz.

At Payback, Barrett lost the Intercontinental Championship to Curtis Axel in a triple risk match, likewise including The Miz. Barrett got his rematch for the title on the accompanying scene of SmackDown, yet was again vanquished by Axel.

On 14 July at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, Barrett contended in the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank step match, yet was unsuccessful as the match was eventually won by Damien Sandow. Barrett at long last finished his long losing streak on 31 July Main Event, when he vanquished R-Truth. On 5 August Raw, Barrett was to shave Daniel Bryan's facial hair at the requests of Vince McMahon as a feature of Bryan's "corporate makeover", yet Bryan assaulted and shaved Barrett instead. That same week on SmackDown, Barrett lost to Bryan, yet on the following Raw, Barrett crushed Bryan after exceptional visitor arbitrator Brad Maddox made the most of a quick on Bryan. Four days after the fact on SmackDown, Barrett was again crushed by Bryan in a no preclusion match.

Awful News Barrett  

After a nonattendance from WWE TV because of honest to goodness work visa issues, he returned on 2 December 2013 scene of Raw as Bad News Barrett, a persona he had beforehand accepted on The JBL and Cole Show, yet was still called Wade once in a while by observers and backstage interviewers.

He made his in-ring return on the 7 April 2014 Raw, crushing Rey Mysterio in Mysterio's last WWE appearance. On 14 April scene of Raw, Barrett crushed Dolph Ziggler in cycle one of the #1 Contender's Tournament for an Intercontinental Championship match at Extreme Rules and on 21 April Raw, Barrett vanquished Sheamus to progress to the finals of the competition. He crushed Rob Van Dam on 28 April Raw in the last round of the competition, acquiring a match at Extreme Rules for the Intercontinental Championship against Big E. At Extreme Rules, he turned into the Intercontinental Champion for the fourth time in his vocation when he vanquished Big E. He then crushed Van Dam at Payback to hold his Intercontinental Championship. On 9 June Raw, he contended in a WWE World Heavyweight Championship qualifying match for the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, however fizzled after a Brogue Kick by Sheamus. Be that as it may, Triple H place him in the Money in the Bank stepping stool match for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship contract on 23 June Raw. The next night at the SmackDown recordings, Barrett isolated his shoulder after he was tossed into the blockade by Jack Swagger, so he was pulled from the compensation per-view. Barrett's damage required surgery, discounting him for a considerable length of time, in this manner WWE made the move to abandon the Intercontinental Championship on 30 June.

Barrett returned onscreen in November at the pre-show of Survivor Series. On the 29 December 2014 scene of Raw, Barrett came back to activity and vanquished Cesaro. On the 5 January 2015 scene of Raw, Barrett crushed Dolph Ziggler in a 2-out-of-3 falls match to catch his fifth Intercontinental Championship. At Fastlane, Barrett held his title against Dean Ambrose after Ambrose got himself precluded. Ambrose then stole the Intercontinental title, yet he would not be the one and only to do as such for the next weeks, as different wrestlers picked up ownership of Barrett's title belt, including R-Truth, Luke Harper, Dolph Ziggler, Daniel Bryan, and Stardust. Of these individuals, Barrett was stuck in non-title matches against R-Truth, Ziggler, Bryan, and Ambrose inside a month prior and then afterward Fastlane. Thus, a step match for the Intercontinental Title was made for WrestleMania 31, with Barrett safeguarding against Ambrose, Harper, R-Truth, Ziggler, Stardust, and Bryan, who at last won the match. Barrett was booked to face Bryan for the title in a rematch at Extreme Rules, however Bryan was not medicinally cleared to contend. Barrett rather confronted Neville in a losing exertion on the pre-show.

King Barrett

On the 28 April 2015 scene of Raw, Barrett would contend in the 2015 King of the Ring competition, where he crushed Dolph Ziggler in the primary round. The next night on the WWE Network, Barrett would vanquish R-Truth in the semi-finals before overcoming kindred Englishman Neville in the last to end up the twentieth champ of the competition. Under the moniker King Barrett, he would go ahead to intentionally get himself tallied out to Neville at Payback. Lord Barrett took part in the Elimination Chamber match for the empty Intercontinental Championship, however was the initially disposed of by R-Truth. At the Money in the Bank pre-appear, Barrett lost to Truth. After his triumph, Truth started alluding to himself as "Lord What's Up" and wore a cape and crown to ridicule Barrett. The reestablished fight gathered to Battleground, which saw Barrett rout Truth.

Barrett then framed an organization named "The Lords of Darkness" with Stardust, prompting a label group match at SummerSlam, where they were vanquished by Neville and performing artist Stephen Amell, when Neville stuck Barrett for the win. The night after SummerSlam, Stardust turned on Barrett for costing him the match, in this manner disbanding their tag team. After a short break, Barrett returned on the 28 September scene of Raw, assaulting Neville and Stardust.

On the 5 October scene of Raw, Barrett helped Sheamus rout Neville, after Barrett, who was on analysis amid the match, diverted Neville sufficiently long for Sheamus to exploit. Barrett and Sheamus would then shape a label group, vanquishing Neville and Cesaro in label group matches on both Raw and SmackDown. At Survivor Series, Barrett participated in a 5-on-5 conventional Survivor Series end label group match, close by Sheamus and The New Day, with this group being crushed by Ryback, The Usos and The Lucha Dragons. The next night on Raw, Barrett would help Rusev and Sheamus against Roman Reigns.

On the 30 November scene of Raw, in the wake of meddling in Sheamus' WWE World Heavyweight Championship title resistance against Reigns, Sheamus declared the arrangement of The League of Nations stable nearby Barrett, Rusev and Alberto Del Rio. On 14 January scene of Smackdown, Barrett encouraged Del Rio to win United States Championship.

On the 7 March 2016 scene of Raw, Barrett, alongside Sheamus and Rusev, contended with Dolph Ziggler in a 3-on-1 handicap end match, where Barrett was the main colleague be wiped out. At Roadblock, Barrett and Sheamus unsuccessfully tested The New Day for the WWE Tag Team Championship. On the 14 March version of Monday Night Raw, Barrett and the whole League of Nations assaulted the New Day, after Alberto Del Rio lost to Big E and Xavier Woods in a Tag Team title match. After the assault, Sheamus issued a test to The New Day for a 4-on-3 match at WrestleMania 32. On 17 March scene of Smackdown, Barrett endured a misfortune against Kofi Kingston. At WrestleMania, Barrett and his stablemates vanquished The New Day. On the 4 April scene of Raw, Barrett and Sheamus tested the New Day for the label titles, yet lost. After the match, the League of Nations pointed the finger at Barrett for being the "frail connection" and assaulted him, catapulting him from the group. This was his last appearance for WWE.

On 6 May 2016, WWE reported that Bennett was discharged by WWE. Following his discharge, Bennett expressed that since he picked not to sign another agreement with WWE in August 2015, his agreement should end in June 2016, yet he and WWE consented to a before separating of ways. Bennett wanted to take a "break from the wrestling business", however said he would be "back in the ring when the time is right".

Acting career

Barrett had a little part in the 2013 wrongdoing thriller film Dead Man Down, for which he was required to utilize a New York accent. In April 2015, it was declared that he would star as "Europe's most perilous professional killer" in a WWE Studios-Richwater Films activity thriller film titled Eliminators.

Individual life

Bennett has three tattoos, including spiked metal to his left side deltoid, which he later extended to cover the whole shoulder; a tribal outline straightforwardly underneath the principal tattoo; and a rose on his right deltoid with the words "Society, Alienation, Boredom, and Despair" (a line from the Manic Street Preachers melody "Little Baby Nothing").

Bennett is a supporter of Preston North End FC and the Chicago Bears. He plays the guitar in his extra time, and appreciates perusing the works of Hunter S. Thompson. His most loved groups incorporate Guns N' Roses, Manic Street Preachers, The Beatles, The Jam, Oasis, The Smiths, Stereophonics, and The Stone Roses.

On 15 June 2008, Bennett was captured in Tampa, Florida, and accused of battery on a law implementation officer (a lawful offense) and impeding an officer (a misdemeanor). The capture occurred outside of Champps Restaurant and Bar at 2am. He was discharged the following day. According to FCW sources, all charges were hence dropped by police. The officer that Bennett impeded was not wearing a uniform and Bennett later expressed that, had he known the man was a piece of law requirement, he would not have blocked him.

In November 2014, Bennett got a U.S. green card, which qualifies him for unequivocal perpetual residency in the United States for the following 10 years.

Titles and achievements

Dropkixx

Dropkixx IWC European Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Florida Championship Wrestling

FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (2 time) – with Drew McIntyre

Ohio Valley Wrestling

OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Paul Burchill

Expert Wrestling Illustrated

Fight of the Year (2010) The Nexus versus WWE

Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (2010) As a feature of The Nexus

Positioned 19 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2011

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

WWE Intercontinental Championship (5 times)

Intercontinental Championship #1 Contenders Tournament (2014)

Lord of the Ring (2015)

NXT (Season one)

Slammy Award (1 time)

Stunner of the Year (2010) The presentation of The Nexus