Xavier Woods

Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Xavier Woods and is part of The New Day.

Watson also makes public appearances outside of wrestling under the name Austin Creed.

Watson previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Consequences Creed, and was a one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with Jay Lethal as Lethal Consequences.

He graduated from Sprayberry High School but there are also rumors that he graduated at Pebblebrook High School instead in 2004.

Later that year, he began studying psychology and philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.

He graduated with a master's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in philosophy.

While attending Furman University, Watson began training for a career in professional wrestling and, in 2005, began wrestling part-time with Rob Adonis' 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.

During his time in NWA Anarchy, Creed was part of a tag team called Awesome Attraction with Hayden Young.

In 2006, Creed won NWA's Most Popular Wrestler, voted for by the NWA fans.

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.

In 2007, Watson took a day off from college to show up unannounced at the main building of Deep South Wrestling (DSW), then a developmental territory of WWE, and apply for a job as a wrestler; coincidentally, his future New Day partner Kofi Kingston (then using the ringname "Kofi Nahaje Kingston") was working in the ring the exact moment he arrived, marking the first meeting between the two.

DSW accepted to give Creed a tryout, although WWE would officially cut ties with DSW shortly before he received a contract.

On July 12, 2007, Creed defeated Murder-One in a tournament finals to win the vacant DSW Heavyweight Champion, becoming the first wrestler to hold the title without the company being affiliated with WWE; the company closed its doors the following October 11, making Creed the final DSW Heavyweight Champion.

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.

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 on the game show of a similar name.

On October 21, 2007, it was reported that Creed had signed a contract with TNA.

The signing was reported when Creed appeared on the radio show Trash Talking Radio on October 23 with Tommy Cairo and Sabian.

His signing was also confirmed later at a NWA Anarchy show where Creed was presented with the contract by TNA Booking Director Bill Behrens.

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.

During the match, Creed eliminated Shark Boy, but was later eliminated by Curry Man.

Creed later wrestled in the first ever TerrorDome match at Sacrifice, which was won by Kaz.

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.

After signing with WWE in 2010, he was assigned to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) and adopted the ring name Xavier Woods.

FCW was later closed and rebranded as NXT, where Woods worked until he was called up to the main roster in 2013.

In 2014, Woods formed The New Day alongside Big E and Kofi Kingston, and has since become a record seven-time SmackDown Tag Team Champion, four-time Raw Tag Team Champion, and one-time NXT Tag Team Champion, making him an overall 12-time tag team champion in WWE.

New Day's second reign with the Raw Tag Team Championship was the longest tag team title reign of any male tag team championship in WWE history until that record was broken in February 2021.

In October 2021, Woods became the 22nd winner of the King of the Ring tournament and briefly went by the name of King Woods.

With his NXT Tag Team Championship win in 2022, Woods also became a Tag Team Triple Crown Champion.

Since 2015, Watson, as Austin Creed, has hosted a gaming YouTube channel titled UpUpDownDown, where he invites fellow WWE performers, gaming personalities, friends, and guests to play games.

He was also a host on the G4 television network, which covers video games, following its revival in 2020 until its end in 2022.

Watson was born in Columbus, Georgia.