Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986) is a professional wrestler from the United States. He is presently contracted to WWE, where he competes on the SmackDown brand as Xavier Woods. Watson also appears in public outside of wrestling under the alias Austin Creed.
Watson also performed for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as Consequences Creed and was a TNA World Tag Team Champion as The Lethal Consequences with Jay Lethal. After signing with WWE in 2010, he was assigned to the company’s developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) as Xavier Woods.
FCW was later renamed NXT, where Woods worked until being promoted to the main roster in 2013.
Woods, along with Big E and Kofi Kingston, formed The New Day in 2014 and has since become a record seven-time SmackDown Tag Team Champion and four-time Raw Tag Team Champion, making him an overall 11-time tag team champion in WWE.
Where did Xavier Woods go to college? Did Xavier Woods play college football?
Austin Watson attended Furman University before beginning training for a career in professional wrestling in 2005 with Rob Adonis’ Ultimate Christian Wrestling promotion.