Consequences Creed

Xavier Woods
Birth name	Austin Watson[1]
Ring name(s)	Austin Creed[1] Austin Watson[2] Consequences Creed[1] Rasheed Lucius Creed[1] Xavier Woods[3]
Billed height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[3]
Billed weight	205 lb (93 kg)[3]
Born	(1986-09-04) September 4, 1986[1] Marietta, Georgia[1]
Resides	Tampa, Florida[4]
Billed from	Marietta, Georgia Angel Grove, California[3][5]
Trained by	Rob Adonis[1] Brodie Ray Chase[1]
Debut	June 2005[1]

Austin Watson^[1] (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE under the ring name Xavier Woods. Upon joining the company, he was assigned to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling, where he won the promotion's Tag Team Championship once with Wes Brisco.^[6] Watson previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Consequences Creed, where he was a one time World Tag Team Champion with Jay Lethal as Lethal Consequences. Watson has also worked for NWA Anarchy and other independent promotions under the ring name Austin Creed.

Early life

Watson was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1986 and graduated from Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Georgia in 2004. That same year he began studying psychology and philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Watson graduated from Furman University with two degrees a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and philosophy on May 29, 2008. As of 2013, he already earned a Masters in Psychology and he is currently working on attaining a PhD. ^{[citation needed]}

Professional wrestling career

Early years and NWA Anarchy (2005–2007)

While attending Furman University, Watson began training for a career in professional wrestling and, in 2005, began wrestling part-time with Rob Adonis's Ultimate Christian Wrestling promotion. While in the Greenville, South Carolina-based World Wrestling Council, he developed his Austin Creed gimmick, which is based heavily on the character Apollo Creed from the Rocky series.^[7]

During his time in NWA Anarchy, Creed was part of a tag team called Awesome Attraction with Hayden Young. The pair had one of the longest title reigns in the promotion's history after defeating Justice Served (Jason Justice and Mike Free) in Cornelia, Georgia on April 7, 2007.^[8] In 2006, Creed won NWA's Most Popular Wrestler, voted for by the NWA fans.

On July 12, 2007 Creed defeated Murder-One to become the first DSW Heavyweight Champion following the promotion's split from World Wrestling Entertainment. He also worked with The Assassin while in Deep South Wrestling.^[7]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Pursuit of the X Division Championship (2007–2008)

Creed appeared at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Bound For Glory pay-per-view event, teaming with Ron Killings as the replacement for Adam "Pacman" Jones. Creed wrestled under the name Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed.^[9] His union with Ron Killings was dubbed Truth and Consequences, which was a combination of Killings' nickname "The Truth" and Creed's nickname "Consequences" as well as a play on words that referenced either the New Mexican town and the game show of the same name.

Creed in action in September 2008

On October 21, 2007, it was reported that Creed had signed a contract with TNA.^[7] The signing was reported when Creed appeared on the radio show Trash Talking Radio on October 23 with Tommy Cairo and Sabian.^[10] His signing was also confirmed later at a NWA Anarchy show where Creed was presented with the contract by TNA Booking Director Bill Behrens.^[11] Following Bound For Glory, Creed was not seen on TNA television for months after Killings asked for and was later granted his release from the company.

On February 10, 2008, Creed wrestled in a dark match before Against All Odds. He teamed with Sonjay Dutt defeating The Rock 'n Rave Infection. On the March 13 episode of Impact! a promo video with the words "prepare to face the consequences" showed Creed training and announced that he would make his return at the Lockdown pay-per-view on April 13. The following week the return date was changed to April 10. On the April 10 episode of Impact!, Creed made his in-ring return and defeated Jimmy Rave of The Rock 'n Rave Infection, thus qualifying for the Xscape match at Lockdown.^[12] During the match, Creed eliminated Shark Boy, but was later eliminated by Curry Man.^[13] Creed would later wrestle in the first ever TerrorDome match at Sacrifice, which was won by Kaz.^[14]

At Hard Justice, Creed faced Petey Williams for the X Division Championship, but lost after interference from Sheik Abdul Bashir. On the September 4, 2008 episode of Impact!, he won a number one contenders match against Bashir for the right to face Williams again at No Surrender for the X Division Title.^[15] However, the match was later changed to a triple threat after Bashir repeatedly attacked Creed and ultimately, Bashir won the match and the X Division Title.^[16]

Lethal Consequences (2008–2010)

Creed at Slammiversary 2009.

On the October 30, 2008 episode of Impact!, Creed, along with Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Jay Lethal, Petey Williams, Eric Young, ODB and The Motor City Machineguns formed a faction of younger wrestlers, known as The Frontline, to oppose The Main Event Mafia.^[17]

On January 8, 2009, fellow Frontline member Lethal chose Creed to cash in his Feast or Fired briefcase with, and the pair won the World Tag Team Championship from the champions Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm). Creed and Lethal went on to be named Lethal Consequences, a combination of their respective names.^[18] Beer Money, Inc. regained their titles in a three-way match just three days later at Genesis. For the next few months, Creed and Lethal teamed with the Motor City Machineguns to try and unmask Suicide. On the October 1, 2009 episode of Impact!, Creed and Lethal were part of a 5-man ladder match for a future X Division Title match. During the match, Amazing Red, who ended up winning the match, performed a hurricanrana driver, which caused Creed to projectile vomit after his head hit the mat.^[19] Watson was released from TNA on March 29, 2010.^[20]

Independent circuit (2010)

On April 4 New Japan Pro Wrestling announced Watson, under his Consequences Creed ring name, as a participant in the first Super J Tag Tournament.^[21] On May 8 Creed and his partner Kota Ibushi were eliminated from the tournament in the first round by the team of Gedo and KUSHIDA.^[22] Creed returned to New Japan on June 28, 2010, teaming up with IWGP Heavyweight Champion Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma in the J Sports Crown Openweight 6 Man Tag Tournament.^[23] After defeating Tamon Honda, Kentaro Shiga and Makoto Hashi in the opening round, the trio was eliminated from the tournament in the second round by Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka and Tomohiro Ishii.^[23][24] On July 10 Creed defeated Brian Milonas, U-Gene and Tommaso Ciampa to win East Coast Wrestling Association's 2010 Super 8 Tournament.^[25][26]

World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE

Developmental territories (2010–present)

On July 22, 2010, it was announced that Watson had signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment.^[27] Watson, using his real name, made his debut for WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling on July 29 in a tag team match, where he and Percy Watson were defeated by Brodus Clay and Donny Marlow.^[2] Following his debut, he was then added to FCW's official website under the name Xavier Woods.^[3] In October, Woods began to team up with Wes Brisco and to prove themselves, they took part in a tag team turmoil match on October 14, where they defeated three other teams.^[28] On November 4, Woods and Brisco defeated Johnny Curtis and Derrick Bateman to become the Florida Tag Team Champions, the match also included Brodus Clay and Jackson Andrews.^[6] On December 1, Woods and Brisco vacated the Tag Team Championship after Brisco was sidelined with an injury.^[29][30] With Brisco sidelined with an injury, Woods teamed up with Marcus Owens to take on Damien Sandow and Titus O'Neill for the vacant Florida Tag Team Championship, but were unsuccessful.^[28] Following this, Woods began performing as a singles competitor throughout 2011 and 2012, though without much success.^[28]

When WWE rebranded its developmental territory, FCW, into NXT,^[31] Woods made his televised debut on the October 31, 2012 episode of NXT with a loss to Leo Kruger.^[32] While picking up wins on NXT over the likes of El Local and Jake Carter, Woods began using the gimmick of a fanboy of 1990s culture^[33][34][35] that sees him implement his legitimate fandom of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z, and the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series into both his matches and his attire.^[36]

Teaming with R-Truth (2013–present)

On the November 18, 2013 episode of Raw, Woods made his main roster debut as he teamed with fellow TNA alumnus R-Truth to defeat 3MB (Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal) after Woods pinned McIntyre.^[37] The following week on Raw, Woods defeated Heath Slater in his singles debut match while being accompanied by R-Truth and The Funkadactyls (Cameron and Naomi) and using Tons of Funk's entrance music.^[38] On the November 29 episode of SmackDown, Woods began a feud with Brodus Clay after Clay took offense to Woods using his entrance music and The Funkdactyls as his managers earlier in the week on Raw. Later that night, Woods suffered his first loss when he and R-Truth lost to Tons of Funk (Clay and Tensai) after Clay pinned Woods.^[39] On the December 2 episode of Raw, Woods and R-Truth defeated Tons of Funk in a rematch after Woods pinned Clay.^[40]

In wrestling

Creed, with Hayden Young, as the NWA Anarchy Tag Team Champions.

• Finishing moves
  • As Xavier Woods
    • Culture Shock^[41] (Diving DDT) – 2010–2011
    • Lost in the Woods^[3] (Inverted stomp facebreaker)^[42] – 2013–present
    • Tornado DDT^[43][44] – 2013–present
  • As Austin Creed / Consequences Creed
    • ACT – Austin Creed Test^[45] (Diving DDT)^[26] – 2010
    • CreeDDT^[46] (Hammerlock legsweep DDT)^[47] – 2007–2008
    • Fireman's carry cutter^[26][48] – 2009–2010
    • Monti-Fisto (Three left-handed punches followed by splits followed by a right-handed hook)^[1] – 2005–2007; used as a signature move from 2008–2010

• Signature moves
  • As Xavier Woods
    • Front dropkick^[44][38]
    • Headscissors takedown^[44][42]
    • Honor Roll^[3][5] (Rolling thunder clothesline, with theatrics)^[37][38][42]
  • As Austin Creed / Consequences Creed
    • Arm drag^[1]
    • Cradle back-to-belly piledriver^[49]
    • Diving fist drop^[50]
    • Military press double knee gutbuster^[51]
    • Right-handed hook^[50]
    • Rolling thunder clothesline^[44][51]
    • Springboard one-handed bulldog^[52]
    • Swinging cradle suplex^[53]

• With Jay Lethal
  • Double team finishing moves
    • Fireman's carry cutter (Creed) followed by a diving elbow drop (Lethal)^[48]
  • Double team signature moves
    • Military press (Lethal) / Springboard one-handed bulldog (Creed) combination^[48]
    • Vertical suplex (Lethal) / Diving crossbody (Creed) combination^[52]

• Nicknames
  • "Awesome"^[1]
  • "Awesome Consequences"^[50]
  • "Consequences"^[1]
  • "The Valedictorian"^[45]

• Entrance themes
  • "Living in America" by James Brown^[54] (TNA / Independent circuit)
  • "Consequences" by Dale Oliver^[55] (TNA)
  • "Somebody Call My Momma" by Jim Johnston^[38] (WWE; November 25, 2013, January 8, 2014–present)
  • "Little Jimmy" performed by Ron Killings and composed by Jim Johnston^[39][56] (WWE; November 18, 2013–present; Used while teaming with R-Truth)

Championships and accomplishments

Creed as one half of the NWA Anarchy Tag Team Champions

• Deep South Wrestling
  • DSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[57]

• East Coast Wrestling Association
  • ECWA Super 8 Tournament (2010)^[25]

• Florida Championship Wrestling
  • FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Wes Brisco^[6]

• NWA Anarchy
  • NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hayden Young^[8]
  • Most Popular Wrestler (2006)

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him #93 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2009^[58]

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  • TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jay Lethal^[59]

References

External links

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