Titus O'Neil

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Thaddeus Michael Bullard United StatesUnited States
Titus O'Neil at a WWE Live event in 2017.

Titus O'Neil at a WWE Live event in 2017.
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Surname Thaddeus Michael Bullard
Ring name Titus O'Neil
height 198 cm
Fighting weight 122 kg
birth April 29, 1977
Live Oak , Florida
Announced from Boynton Beach , Florida
debut 2009

Thaddeus Michael Bullard (born April 29, 1977 in Live Oak , Florida ) is an American wrestler and former football player. He appears regularly on the wrestling shows produced by the WWE under the ring name Titus O'Neil .

His greatest achievement to date has been receiving the WWE Tag Team Championship .

Football career

Bullard grew up in Live Oak, Florida, where he attended Suwannee High School. There they made a parade All-American out of him. In January 1996 he signed with the University of Florida Gators. Bullard played a total of 44 games in 4 seasons.

After college, Thaddeus played in the Arena Football League with the Utah Blaze, Tampa Bay Storm, Las Vegas Gladiators, and the Carolina Cobras from 2003 to 2007 .

Wrestling career

World Wrestling Entertainment (since 2009)

Bullard signed a development contract with World Wrestling Entertainment in 2009 and began training for the Florida Championship Wrestling. He made his television debut on January 16, 2010 as Titus O'Neil. Together with Skip Sheffield , he won a tag team match against Vance Archer and Alex Riley.

At the WWE NXT Season 1 Finale , which aired June 1, 2010, Bullard was announced with Zack Ryder as a Pro for the second season. In this, however, he was eliminated first. From March 2011 he took part again in NXT (fifth season), this time with Hornswoggle as a pro. In the April 18, 2012 issue of NXT, he was drafted to SmackDown by John Laurinaitis along with Darren Young . With Young, he formed the Prime Time Players tag team .

Bullard later made his debut with Young on the WWE main roster . From then on, as a duo, they contested several tag team matches, some of which they were able to win. In the end, on June 14, 2015, they won the WWE Tag Team Championship at WWE Money in the Bank . The reign lasted 70 days, then Bullard and Young lost the titles on The New Day . From that point on, the team was deployed to a lesser extent.

Bullard later only worked as a single wrestler after his tag team partner Young left the company, and founded Titus Worldwide for himself . Later he was put back in the tag team division with various partners and got Dana Brooke at his side as manager. But this also dissolved after a few months of cooperation.

At the Pay-Per-View Greatest Royal Rumble in Jeddah , he had an unfortunate mishap in which he stumbled during his entrance and slipped under the ring.

In the Raw edition of May 20, 2019, Bullard won the newly introduced WWE 24/7 Championship , but this reign ended after a few seconds and then lost the title to Robert Roode .

Wrestling successes

Web links

Commons : Titus O'Neil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Titus O'Neil. CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database, accessed June 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Neil, Titus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bullard, Thaddeus Michael (full name); O'Neil, Titus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Live Oak , Florida