Rodney Begnaud

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Rodney Begnaud


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Redd Dogg Gavin Archibald Red Dogg Badd Dogg Rodney Mack
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight	240 lb (109 kg)
Born	1973 Lafayette, Louisiana
Resides	Lafayette, Louisiana
Trained by	Junkyard Dog
Debut	1998

Rodney Begnaud (born on October 12, 1973 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is a professional wrestler currently contracted to WWE. He has previously worked for WWE on both the RAW brand and very briefly on Smackdown! brand and had a brief stint in ECW. He was released from WWE on November 2004 and was rehired on September 15th, 2006.

1 Career
2 Return to WWE
3 Finishing and trademark moves
4 Managers
5 Personal life
6 Football Career
7 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

Rodney started wrestling in 1998 as Red Dogg in the Southwest independents. He then was signed by the WWE to wrestle in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and he changed his name to Gavin Archibald.

When he made his debut on the January 16, 2003 episode of SmackDown! he went by simply 'Redd Dogg'. He was placed alongside John Cena in an enforcer role replacing Bull Buchanan, but didn't last long in that role before he was switched over to RAW and renamed Rodney Mack. He made his RAW debut attacking D'Lo Brown on HEAT, replacing him to be managed by Theodore Long .

Mack Re-Started Theodore Long's group Thuggin' And Buggin' Enterprises, which eventually turned into a group of African Americans who worked a race angle in which they felt they were victims of racism and were being held down by the white man.

On Raw, he often competed in "White Boy Challenges". In these challenges, usually, a Caucasian wrestler would wrestle Mack for five minutes and attempt to beat Mack. He was undefeated in these matches until he was challenged and defeated by Goldberg in less than a minute, losing any credibility Mack had built up.

Mack also teamed with Christopher Nowinski when Nowinski joined Theodore Long's Group as a White male who helped with Long's race angle, until Nowinski suffered from post concussion syndrome and retired from wrestling.

A few months later manager Theodore Long announced a new tag team partner for Mack. He was the World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry. Mack and Henry competed as a team for about 2 months and were fairly successful and caused some upsets over some household WWE tag teams.

In November of 2003, he suffered a knee injury which prevented him from wrestling. Begnaud was supposed to return to action between March and June 2004, but was sent back to OVW and worked RAW dark matches throughout June and July of 2004.

Mack made his return to WWE television on July 26, 2004 participating in an over the top rope battle royal for a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship. Mack was managed by his wife Jazz and was a mainstay on WWE HEAT.

There were a few plans to push Mack's career. One idea was to under go a make-over and re-debut with a "Junk Yard Dog" gimmick similar to Sylvester Ritter, who trained him. After those plans were scrapped, WWE Creative wanted to form a tag team consisting of Rodney Mack and Chuck Palumbo, who had been a mainstay on HEAT due to his lackluster Custom Chucky P gimmick that received no push. These two worked together at a number of house shows throughout September and October 2004, but were these plans were also dropped. On November 4, 2004 WWE released Mack from his contract along with a few others including his wife Jazz.

In 2005, Rodney competed in NWA Cyberspace and the independents of the Southwest. In late 2005, Rodney Mack and Jazz opened up Dirtysouth Championship Wrestling, an independent promotion based in Church Point, Louisiana.

[edit] Return to WWE

On September 15, 2006, it was reported on WWE.com that Rodney Mack along with Marty Jannetty and Brad Armstrong had been hired by WWE. He started wrestling at ECW house shows on October 7th.

[edit] Finishing and trademark moves

Mackintosh Bomb (Double underhook powerbomb)
Blackout (Cobra clutch with body scissors)
Mack Attack DDT (Arm twist followed into a flowing DDT)
Spinebuster
STO
Front powerslam
Spear

[edit] Managers

Theodore Long
Jazz
Sekou Berthe

[edit] Personal life

He is married to Carlene Begnaud, who also competed on RAW (and currently competes on the ECW brand) under the alias Jazz. They currently live together in Lafayette, Louisiana.