Tucker (wrestler)
Tucker | |
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Data | |
Surname | Levi Rolla Cooper |
Ring name |
Tucker Tucker Knight |
height | 190 cm |
Fighting weight | 150 kg |
birth | July 24, 1990 Clackamas, Oregon |
Announced from | Hubbard, Oregon |
Trained by | Mercury Pro Wrestling Academy WWE Performance Center |
debut | January 24, 2015 |
Tucker (born July 24, 1990 in Clackamas, Oregon ) is an American wrestler . He is currently under contract with the WWE and appears regularly on their show SmackDown .
Wrestling career
World Wrestling Entertainment (since 2013)
Cooper joined WWE in 2013 after graduating from college . He began his training at the WWE Performance Center and was given the ring name Tucker Knight.
Knight made his professional wrestling debut at an NXT Live event on January 24, 2015 against Tye Dillinger . He made his television debut on the episode of NXT on July 1, 2015. Knight continued to appear sporadically on television throughout 2015 and early 2016.
After this time he formed a tag team with Otis Dozovic called Heavy Machinery. In October, the duo entered the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament and they made their television debut on the October 19 episode of NXT, losing to Team Austin Aries and Roderick Strong . In the July 12 episode of NXT, Heavy Machinery unsuccessfully challenged The Authors of Pain for the NXT Tag Team Championship . In March 2018, Heavy Machinery returned to the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament, but was eliminated in the first round by The Street Profits Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford .
On December 17th, 2018 it was announced that Heavy Machinery will debut on the main roster. They made their debut on the episode of Raw on January 14, 2019, interrupting an interview between Alexa Bliss and Paul Heyman . The following week on Raw, they defeated The Ascension Konnor and Viktor on their in-ring debut. Heavy Machinery was drafted into SmackDown as part of the Superstar Shake-Up . Heavy Machinery faced Daniel Bryan and Rowan at Stomping Grounds on June 23, 2019 for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship but failed to win the titles.
By the end of 2019, Otis entered into a romance with Mandy Rose . Here he also played a small role and feuded, for a short time, with Dolph Ziggler .
Titles and awards
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Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Number 261 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Hubbard native shows talent, potential in WWE. pamplinmedia.com, September 23, 2015, accessed July 25, 2020 .
Web links
- Tucker's profile on wwe.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tucker |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cooper, Levi Rolla (real name); Tucker Knight |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wrestler |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Clackamas, Oregon |