Wade Barrett

Stuart Alexander Bennett
	Barrett as WWE Intercontinental Champion , 2015.
Data
Ring name	Wade Barrett; Bad News Barrett ; King Barrett ; Stu Bennett ; Stu Sanders ; The Lord ; Lawrence Knight
Additions to names	The Bare Knuckle Brawler ; The British Bull Hammer ; The King of Bad News
height	1.96 m
Fighting weight	112 kg
birth	10th August 1980 ; Penwortham, Lancashire , England , UK
Announced from	Preston , England
Trained by	Andre Baker ; Jon Ritchie
debut	2003

Stuart Alexander Bennett (born August 10, 1980 in Penwortham , Lancashire , England ) is a British wrestler and actor . Until 2016 he was under the ring names Wade Barrett , Bad News Barrett and King Barrett under contract with the market leader WWE and appeared regularly in their wrestling shows. In 2013 he took on a role in the film Dead Man Down . The film Eliminators followed in 2016 .

Wrestling career

Beginnings

Born in Penwortham, Bennett grew up in Preston and idolized the British wrestler The British Bulldog in his childhood . Bennett made his own beginnings in wrestling in Europe in 2003, when he trained in a wrestling school while studying and tried his hand at an independent level. He later worked for several leagues (e.g. Celtic Wrestling, British Wrestling Alliance, All Star Wrestling or Irish Whip Wrestling). At All Star Wrestling he also met today's WWE Superstar Sheamus several times .

World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-2016)

Developmental Territories (2006-2010)

In 2007 Bennett signed a development contract with the WWE and was first employed at Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW for short), where he made his debut in October 2007 as Stu Sanders . At OVW , Bennett won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship with Paul Burchill . After the WWE ended the cooperation with OVW in 2008, Bennett moved to the WWE Aufbauliga Florida Championship Wrestling .

On April 15, 2008 Bennett played his first match at FCW. At FCW he formed a tag team (The Empire) with Drew McIntyre . Along with McIntyre, Bennett won the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship twice .

After the tag team broke up, Bennett appeared as Lawrence Knight . On December 16, 2008, he played a dark match at SmackDown against Kung Fu Naki .

The Nexus and The Corre (2010-2011)

Barrett as the leader of Nexus, 2010.

After ECW was dissolved, the first season of WWE NXT started , which Bennett was allowed to win under the ring name Wade Barrett with his pro Chris Jericho . He then formed the stable The Nexus at RAW with the other NXT participants of the first season , in which he acted as leader. With this stable he feuded especially against John Cena . In the RAW output from January 3, 2011 Bennett was of CM Punk from the Stable thrown and then moved up to Smackdown. Bennett made his debut on the January 4, 2011 SmackDown tapings (aired January 7, 2011) at Blue Burn, where he began a feud with Big Show . A week later, Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater were also traded to SmackDown, who joined in the feud along with Ezekiel Jackson and Bennett, who appeared with them as "The Corre" . At the SmackDown tapings on March 22, 2011, he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship from Kofi Kingston . He lost this at WWE Capitol Punishment on June 19, 2011 to his former partner Ezekiel Jackson. The Corre had disbanded two weeks earlier .

WWE Intercontinental Champion and Contract Termination (2012-2016)

He then led a feud against Randy Orton . At RAW on February 20, 2012, he suffered an elbow injury and was out for around six months as a result. Bennett made his return to SmackDown on September 4, 2012. On December 29, 2012, he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship from Kofi Kingston for the second time while recording the New Year's Eve RAW edition . He lost the title on April 7, 2013 during the pre-show for Wrestlemania XXIX to The Miz , but was able to win it back the following day on RAW. He lost it on June 16, 2013 at PPV Payback in Chicago in a triple threat match to Curtis Axel . Wade Barrett was under his new gimmick Bad News Barrett , under which he debuted on December 2, 2013, his fourth WWE Intercontinental Championship at the big event Extreme Rules on May 4, 2014 against Big E win. He had to give up this title after the Money in the Bank PPV, as he was attacked by Jack Swagger and therefore had to be injured for several months. On December 29, 2014 Barrett came back from the injury break, just a week later, on January 5, 2015 he celebrated winning the Intercontinental Championship again against Dolph Ziggler in a "Best of 3 Falls" match. He lost the title at Wrestlemania 31 to Daniel Bryan. On April 28, 2015, he won the King of the Ring tournament by defeating Neville in the final. Since then he has appeared under his new ring name King Barrett . From November 30, 2015 to April 4, 2016 he formed the stable The League of Nations together with Alberto Del Rio , Rusev and Sheamus . His last appearance for WWE was on the April 4, 2016 edition of Raw, when he was attacked by his stable colleagues and thrown out of the stable after a loss in the Tag Team Title match against The New Day .

On May 6th, he announced that his contract, which expired in June, would not be extended and that a few weeks before the end of the contract had been agreed to terminate the contract.

Lucha Underground (since 2018)

In the November 7, 2018 issue of Lucha Underground , Bennett was revealed as "The Lord" (aka the Limo Boss). Bennett appeared behind the limo and announced it was time to take over the world.

Wrestling successes

WWE

Florida Championship Wrestling

FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (2 × with Drew McIntyre )

Ohio Valley Wrestling

OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 × with Paul Burchill)

Filmography (selection)

2013: Dead Man Down
2016: Eliminatiors
2018: Vengeance
2020: I Am Vengeance: Retaliation

Web links

Commons : Wade Barrett - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Wade Barrett in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Wade Barrett's profile on wwe.com

Individual evidence

↑ Report on Bennett in the Lancashire Telegraph, October 9, 2010 , accessed December 9, 2013
↑ Philip Kreikenbohm: WWE: Black Friday - 8 active people dismissed - Updates «Newsboard« CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database. In: www.cagematch.de. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Barrett, Wade
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bennett, Stuart Alexander (real name); Bennett, Stu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British wrestler and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Penwortham , England

[1] Report on Bennett in the Lancashire Telegraph, October 9, 2010 , accessed December 9, 2013

[2] Philip Kreikenbohm: WWE: Black Friday - 8 active people dismissed - Updates «Newsboard« CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database. In: www.cagematch.de. Retrieved May 6, 2016 .