Bull Dempsey

Bull Dempsey
Birth name James Smith
Born January 16, 1988
Monroe, New York, United States[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Baby Hughie
Bull Dempsey[2]
Donnie Johnson[1]
Huge Smith[3]
Masked Superstar[3]
Smith James
Billed height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[2]
Billed weight 300 lb (140 kg)[2]
Billed from Brooklyn, New York[2]
Trained by Gino Caruso[1]
Tazz[3]
Matt Borne
Danny Doring
Danny Inferno
Debut April 11, 2006

James Smith (born January 16, 1988) is an American professional wrestler. He is employed by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, where he wrestles for the developmental territory WWE NXT under the ring name Bull Dempsey.[2][1]

Professional wrestling career

Early career (2006–2013)

Smith made his debut on April 11, 2006, at East Coast Professional Wrestling event as Donnie "The Body" Johnson, where he defeated JJ Benjamin.[3] Next five months, Smith wrestled in National Wrestling Alliance as Baby Hughie. On September 26, 2009, at NWA New Jersey The Dennis Coralluzzo Invitational 2009, The Powers Of Pain (The Barbarian & The Warlord) defeated The Varsity Club (Baby Hughie & Rob Eckos).[4] In 2010, Smith changed his ring name to Smith James. On July 21, 2011, James defeated Memphis Mofo in a TNA dark match.[5]

In 2012, James joined The New Age Wrecking Crew with Bill Carr, Stockade and Vince Steele.[6] On March 10, 2012, Steele and James entered in a tournament to crown a new ACE Tag team Champions, but were defeated in the finals by The Movement. On March 9, 2013, James and Vince Steele won the American Championship Entertainment (ACE) Tag Team Championship.[7] They lost the titles on May 11, 2013.[8] against On February 23, 2013, James and Bill Carr won the NYWC Tag Team Championship.[9] However, they lost the title against Mikey Whipwreck and Stockade on June 23, 2013, his last match in the company.[10]

WWE (2013–present)

In June 2013, James signed a contract with WWE.[11][12] He was assigned to the WWE Performance Center. On August 28, 2013, his name was changed to Bull Dempsey.[13] Dempsey made his debut in NXT on September 12, 2013, where he was defeated by Aiden English. Throughout late 2013 he showed up sporadically to job to better talents before disappearing for a while. In the late spring to summer Bull resurfaced in NXT as a tweener squashing various low carders and local talents. In August, Dempsey and Mojo Rawley formed an uneasy tag team and participated in the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament, where they were defeated by The Vaudevillians (Aiden English and Simon Gotch) in the first round, thus prompted Dempsey to attack Rawley in the aftermath making him a full fledged heel.[14][15] On September 11 at the NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way event, Dempsey defeated Rawley in a squash with his new finisher The Diving Headbutt. On the September 25 episode of NXT Bull was victorious in the rematch. Following that, he embarked on a rivalry with Baron Corbin, another dominant wrestler who mostly squashed jobbers. The two competed to see how quickly they could defeat the "local talent", sometimes back-to-back. This eventually lad to a match between the two on January 14, 2015, in which Dempsey's undefeated streak was broken by Corbin.[16]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Bull Dempsey profile". Cagematch. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Bull Dempsey". WWE. 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "WrestlingData profile". WrestlingData. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ Philip Kreikenbohm. "NWA New Jersey The Dennis Coralluzzo Invitational 2009". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "TNA IMPACT WRESTLING SPOILERS FOR TONIGHT - PWInsider.com". Pwinsider.com. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Philip Kreikenbohm. "New Age Wrecking Crew". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  7. ↑ Philip Kreikenbohm. "ACE Destined For Greatness". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  8. ↑ Philip Kreikenbohm. "ACE Aftermath". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  9. ↑ Philip Kreikenbohm. "NYWC Psycho Circus XI". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  10. ↑ Philip Kreikenbohm. "NYWC Going The Distance". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "WWE SIGNING TAZ PROTEGE AND MORE". Pwinsider.com. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "PWINSIDERTV: NEW WWE TALENTS SMITH JAMES & DAN ECKOS RECEIVE FAREWELL SENDOFF FROM NYWC - PWInsider.com". Pwinsider.com. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  13. ↑ "LOTS OF NEW WWE NXT NAMES REVEALED". Pwinsider.com. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  14. ↑ Jason Namako. "WWE NXT Results - 8/21/14 (Rose/Zayn vs. Cara/Kalisto)". WrestleView. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  15. ↑ "WWE NXT results, recap, reactions from August 14, 2014: Fierce contention". Cageside Seats. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  16. ↑ "WWE NXT results - Jan. 14, 2015: Sami Zayn & Adrian Neville battle in NXT Title rematch". WWE. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
  17. ↑ Namako, Jason. "WWE NXT Takeover Results - 9/11/14 (NXT Title 4-Way)". WrestleView. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
  18. ↑ Philip Kreikenbohm. "NYWC Tag Team Championship". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  19. ↑ "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2014". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved 2 December 2014.

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