Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986), is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Xavier Woods. He is currently inactive due to an achilles injury. Watson also makes public appearances outside of wrestling under the name Austin Creed, a ring name he used as a wrestler during his first years.
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. After signing with WWE in 2010, he was assigned to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) under the ring name Xavier Woods. FCW was later rebranded into 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 have since become six-time SmackDown Tag Team Champions and two-time Raw Tag Team Champions, with their second reign being the longest tag team title reign in WWE history.
In Wrestling[]
- Finishing moves
- As Xavier Woods
- Limit Break (Ropewalk diving elbow drop)
- Lost in the Woods (Inverted stomp facebreaker)
- Shining wizard
- As Austin Creed / Consequences Creed
- ACT – Austin Creed Test (Diving DDT)
- CreeDDT (Hammerlock legsweep DDT)
- Fireman's carry cutter
- MontiFisto (Three left-handed punches followed by splits followed by a right-handed hook)
- As Xavier Woods
- Signature moves
- Arm drag
- Casadora bodyscissors flipped forward into a wheelbarrow facebuster
- Cradle back-to-belly piledriver
- Culture Shock (Diving DDT)
- Diving fist drop
- Dropkick, sometimes front
- Flowing DDT to a kneeling opponent
- Hadouken / Fireball Punch (Double palm thrust to the opponent's chest)
- Headscissors takedown
- Hesitation dropkick to an opponent draped on the middle rope
- Home Run (Tornado DDT)
- Honor Roll (Rolling thunder clothesline, with theatrics)
- Knife edge chops
- Military press double knee gutbuster
- Right-handed hook
- Springboard one-handed bulldog
- Swinging cradle suplex
- Nicknames
- "Awesome"
- "The Crisp One"
- "Awesome Consequences"
- "Consequences"
- "The Valedictorian"
- Entrance themes
- Independent circuit
- "Living in America" by James Brown
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- "Face the Consequences" by Dale Oliver
- "South Beach" (Remix) by Dale Oliver
- "Pomp and Circumstance" (Black Machismo Remix) by Dale Oliver (used as a member of Lethal Consequences)
- "Lethal Consequences Theme" by Dale Oliver (used as a member of Lethal Consequences)
- NXT / World Wrestling Entertainment
- "Get Funky" by 5 Alarm Music
- "Somebody Call My Momma" by Jim Johnston
- "I'm the Man" by CFO$
- "New Day, New Way" by Jim Johnston (used while a part of The New Day)
- Independent circuit
Championships and accomplishments[]
- Deep South Wrestling
- DSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- East Coast Wrestling Association
- ECWA Super 8 Tournament Champion (2010)
- Florida Championship Wrestling
- FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Wes Brisco
- NWA Anarchy
- NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hayden Young
- Most Popular Wrestler (2006)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Ranked #58 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
- Tag Team of the Year (2015, 2016) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jay Lethal
- World Wrestling Entertainment
- WWE (Raw) Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston
- WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship (6 times) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston
- WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship Tournament (2018) – with Big E and Kofi Kingston
- WWE Year-End Award
- Men's Tag Team of the Year (2019) – The New Day
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Best Gimmick (2015) – The New Day