Wes Lee

Deveon Everhart Aikens (born November 2, 1994) is an American professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Wes Lee.

He is currently out of action due to a back injury.

He is a former one-time and longest reigning NXT North American Champion, and a former two-time NXT Tag Team Champion with Nash Carter.

Aikens is best known for his time in Impact Wrestling under the ring name Dezmond Xavier (or simply Dez).

He is well known as a member of The Rascalz with Zachary Wentz, Trey Miguel, and Myron Reed.

He also performed on independent promotions, mostly notably for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he was one-half of the PWG World Tag Team Champions alongside Wentz and went on to become the longest reigning champions in the company’s history.

Dezmond Xavier made his wrestling debut in 2011.

In 2015, Dezmond Xavier teamed with Zachary Wentz while working in the independent circuit and formed a tag team by the name of Scarlet and Graves.

The team competed in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) where he and Wentz went on to become 2-time Combat Zone Wrestling World Tag Team Champions their first time at an event called 'Cage Of Death 18' on December 10, 2016 against EYFBO and their second time at Lucha Forever Catch Me Outside against CCK Chris Brookes and Kid Lykos after losing the titles to them in year 2017.

In year 2016, before he and Wentz second AAW World Tag Title reign Dezmond Xavier and Wentz at Xtreme Intense Championship Wrestling teamed together with Trey Miguel, Aaron Williams, Kyle Maverick and the all five of them together won the XICW Tag Team Championships.

In 2017 at WrestleCircus he won the WC Sideshow Championship by defeating Joey Ryan.

Afterwards, he went to wrestle in Desastre Total Ultraviolento where he won the DTU Alto Impacto Championship.

Also a year after that in year 2017, he and Wentz went on to wrestle at All American Wrestling where they went on to win the AAW World Tag Team Championships on July 15, 2017 at United We Stand against A. R. Fox and Rey Fenix.

A year later after that, Trey Miguel and Myron Reed joined the group and then the group name changed into The Rascalz.

In 2017, Dezmond Xavier signed with Impact Wrestling.

On the April 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, Xavier made his debut in a six-way match for the X Division Championship.

His first singles match in Impact took place on the July 8 episode of Xplosion, where he defeated Idris Abraham.

Later that month, Xavier entered the 2017 GFW Super X Cup tournament, in which he defeated Idris Abraham in the quarterfinals, Drago in the semifinals, and Taiji Ishimori in the final to win the 2017 GFW Super X Cup.

In October, Xavier made his pay-per-view debut at Bound for Glory, where he competed against Trevor Lee, Garza Jr., Matt Sydal, Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt in a six-way match for the X Division Championship but failed to win the title.

Also in the year 2018, Dezmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz wrestled at The Wrestling Revolver where they won both the PWR Tag Team Championships and the One Night Tag Team Tournament of 2018.

In the same year, Dezmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz also went on to Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) to win the PWG World Tag Team Championships.

They would hold the titles for 1025 days, the longest reign in company history.

Xavier also received a singles title shot for the X Division Championship against Taiji Ishimori on the January 18, 2018 episode of Impact!, which he lost.

At Redemption, Xavier competed in a six-way X Division match, which he lost.

He then lost to Brian Cage at the Under Pressure special to determine the #1 contender for the X Division Championship and he also lost to Brian Cage in a match for the X Division Championship on an episode of Impact Wrestling as well.

He also has another title challenge for the X Division Championship in 2018 against Matt Sydal at the One Night Only pay-per-view event Zero Fear, in which he came up short.

He then took a brief hiatus from Impact.

In late 2018, Xavier was aligned with Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz, forming a fan favorite stable under the name The Rascalz.

A vignette aired promoting the debut of Rascalz on the November 15 episode of Impact!.

Xavier returned to Impact, teaming with Wentz under the new stable name on the November 29 episode of Impact!, where they defeated the team of Chris Bey and Mike Sydal.

After months of competing in the tag team division in the fall of 2018 and early 2019, the trio made their pay-per-view debut at Rebellion in April, and lost to Moose and The North.

Around this time Xavier shortened his ring name to Dez while Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz shortened their ring names to Trey and Wentz respectively.

At Slammiversary XVII, Dez and Wentz unsuccessfully challenged The North for the World Tag Team Championship in a three-way match, also involving Latin American Exchange (Santana and Ortiz).

Dez and Trey then unsuccessfully challenged North for the World Tag Team Championship on the August 2 episode of Impact!.

In October, Dez competed against Sami Callihan in a losing effort at the Impact Plus event Prelude to Glory.

In December, Dez unsuccessfully challenged Ace Austin for the X Division Championship at Motown Showdown.

In 2020, Dez and Wentz unsuccessfully challenged The North for the World Tag Team Championship at February's Sacrifice event.

Dez and Wentz continued their success in the tag team division by defeating XXXL and the team of TJP and Fallah Bahh at the Rebellion special.

On the June 2 episode of Impact!, Dez and Wentz defeated TJP and Bahh to earn a World Tag Team Championship against The North on the June 16 episode of Impact!, which they lost.