WRESTLER PROFILES

[David Otunga to... WWE?]	Wrestler: David Otunga Real Name: David Daniel Otunga Sr. Birthday: April 7, 19?? Hometown: Originally from Chicago, Illinois Billed: Hollywood, California Marital Status: Engaged to Jennifer Hudson Height & Weight: 6'1" - 250 lbs Trained by: Tom Prichard Norman Smiley FCW Training Debut: May 29, 2009 Previous Names: Dawson Alexander, Esq. (FCW) Finishing Move: the Verdict Favorite Moves: Notable Feuds:
WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Tag Team titles w/John Cena defeating Drew McIntyre & Cody Rhodes (October 24, 2010); WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Tag Team titles w/Michael McGillicutty defeating Kane & The Big Show (May 30, 2011);
In the Beginning: David Otunga graduated from Harvard Law School.. David Otunga was a contestant on the reality show "I Love New York 2" going by the name PUNK.. August 11, 2009: Jennifer Hudson and fiance David Otunga gave birth to their first child Daniel Otunga Jr.! Florida Championship Wrestling - Dawson Alexander, Esq: March 20, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Jon Cutler & Dawson Alexander Esq. & Maverick Darsow defeated Abraham Saddam Washington & his Secret Service.. March 26, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Dawson Alexander, Esq. did a segment bragging about his accomplishments (like being engaged to Jennifer Hudson).. June 4, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: David Hart Smith defeated Dawson Alexander, Esq… June 18, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Dawson Alexander, Esq. participated in a Battle Royal (won by Johnny Curtis).. June 19, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Dawson Alexander, Esq. defeated Fletcher Chase.. June 25, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Dawson Alexander, Esq. defeated Dylan Klein.. July 2, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Dawson Alexander, Esq. participated in a Battle Royal (won by Johnny Curtis).. July 9, 2009--FCW: Dawson Alexander & Sweet Papi Sanchez & Joe Hennig beat Drew McIntyre & Mr. Tarver & Ricky Ortiz.. July 30, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Johnny Curtis defeated Dawson Alexander, Esq… August 6, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Dawson Alexander, Esq. defeated Curt Hawkins.. August 13, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Dawson Alexander, Esq. defeated Trent Beretta.. October 1, 2009--FCW: Skip Sheffield beat Dawson Alexander and Eric Escobar and Michael Tarver in a 4-WAY.. December 17, 2009--Florida Championship Wrestling: Skip Sheffield & Gabriel & Big E Langston & Titus O'Neil beat Donny Marlow & Jimmy Uso & Dawson Alexander & Lennox McEnroe.. January 15, 2010--Florida Championship Wrestling: Skip Sheffield defeated Dawson Alexander Esq. w/Byron Saxon by DQ.. February 19, 2010 --FCW: The South Beach Boys (Darren Young & Percy Watson) defeated Michael Tarver & David Otunga.. World Wrestling Entertainment - NXT: David Otunga (WWE Rookie) was paired with R-Truth (WWE Pro) for a new television program called WWE NXT.. February 23, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga w/R-Truth defeated Darren Young (w/C.M. Punk & Luke Gallows & Serena) February 26, 2010--WWE SmackDown!: Dolph Ziggler defeated John Morrison and R-Truth w/David Otunga in a 3-WAY.. March 2, 2010--WWE NXT: Darren Young (w/C.M. Punk & Luke Gallows & Serena) beat David Otunga w/R-Truth in a rematch.. ~~~~~~~~~~~David Otunga shoved R-Truth after the match - and later they got into a big brawl in the backstage interview area.. March 9, 2010--WWE NXT: R-Truth & David Otunga defeated Daniel Bryan & Mike "The Miz" Mizanin.. March 12, 2010--WWE SmackDown!: R-Truth w/David Otunga defeated WWE United States champion The Miz w/Daniel Bryan.. March 23, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga & Darren Young (w/Straight Edge Society) defeated Daniel Bryan & Michael Tarver.. March 30, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga won an NXT battle royal to earn the right to guest host an episode of RAW.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Participants: David Otunga & Justin Gabriel & Daniel Bryan & Heath Slater.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Participants: Skip Sheffield & Wade Barrett & Darren Young & Michael Tarver.. April 2, 2010--WWE SmackDown!: Kane said he was getting bored so he challenged the NXT rookies to an 8-on-1 Handicap match.. ~~~Kane defeated the NXT Rookies by DQ in a Handicap match when the rookies all ganged up on Kane at the end of the match.. April 5, 2010--RAW: David Otunga turned out to be one of the greatest RAW guest hosts since WWE started the gimmick.. ~~~Miz & Big Show defeated John Cena & Batista by countout when Batista walked out on Cena to retain their Tag Team titles! ~~~Miz & Big Show defeated John Cena & David Otunga after Otunga walked out on Cena to retain the Unified Tag Team titles! April 6, 2010--WWE NXT: Wade Barrett defeated David Otunga in a singles match.. April 12, 2010--RAW: WWE champion John Cena defeated David Otunga w/Batista in a Non-title match.. April 13, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga participated in an NXT rookies "promo challenge" (which was won by Wade Barrett).. April 20, 2010--WWE NXT: Heath Slater defeated David Otunga in the 1st Round of a Rock'em Sock'em NXT Challenge.. ~~~Justin Gabriel defeated David Otunga w/R-Truth - (Otunga wanted Truth to cheat for him but Truth refused to do that!) April 27, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga won a "Seal the Deal" challenge to win any match of his choice next week.. May 4, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga participated in an "Obstacle Course" challenge and finished the course in 1:35.. ~~~R-Truth beat his NXT rookie David Otunga (this was the match that Otunga asked for after winning last week's challenge) May 10, 2010--RAW: The 8 NXT Rookies defeated John Morrison & Santino Marella & Goldust & Yoshi Tatsu (Handicap match) ~NXT = Daniel Bryan- Heath Slater- Michael Tarver- David Otunga- Darren Young- Skip Sheffield- Wade Barrett- Justin Gabriel. May 11, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga defeated Justin Gabriel... May 24, 2010--RAW: Josh Mathews interviewed the remaining NXT Rookies about making it to the final 4 of the competition.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WWE NXT Season 1 Final Four = David Otunga & Heath Slater & Wade Barrett & Justin Gabriel May 25, 2010--WWE NXT: R-Truth & David "A-List" Otunga defeated Christian & Heath Slater... June 1, 2010--WWE NXT: Wade Barrett w/Chris Jericho beat Justin Gabriel w/Matt Hardy and David Otunga w/R-Truth in a 3-WAY.. ~~~~~~Later that night, Wade Barrett was revealed as the winner of NXT Season 1 - earning a WWE contract and a PPV title shot... June 3, 2010--Florida Championship Wrestling: NXT Season 1 defeated NXT Season 2 in a 5-on-5 match.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NXT Season 1 = Skip Sheffield & David Otunga & Michael Tarver & Heath Slater.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NXT Season 2 = Eli Cottonwood & Husky Harris & Percy Watson & Lucky Cannon.. World Wrestling Entertainment - The NXT Invasion Angle: June 7, 2010--WWE Viewers Choice: Wade Barrett led the other 7 NXT rookies in a shocking invasion of the RAW television show.. ~~~The eight "Rookies" from NXT Season 1 showed up during a match and viciously attacked John Cena like a rabid pack of wolves.. ~~~~~They destroyed the ring, the ringside area, and Daniel Bryan assaulted ring announcer Justin Robert by choking him with his tie.. June 14, 2010--RAW: The NXT group was ordered to apologize but they refused and instead demanded guaranteed WWE contracts.. ~~~RAW General Manager Bret "Hitman" Hart came out and refused to give them contracts and even fired NXT winner Wade Barrett! ~~~LATER: NXT tried to attack John Cena again, but several other WWE Superstars hit the ring and chased them out of the building.. ~~~LATER: The NXT guys attacked Bret Hart, stuffed him into a limousine and then rammed him into other vehicles in the parking lot.. June 21, 2010--RAW: Vince McMahon blamed Bret Hart for the chaos surrounding the NXT group and fired him as General Manager.. ~~~Mr. McMahon said the new General Manager asked to remain anonymous, and he would run RAW by sending Michael Cole emails.. ~~~The new General Manager hired back all of the NXT members - and then each issued arrogant apologies in the middle of the ring.. ~~~~~~MAIN EVENT: John Cena vs. WWE champion Sheamus ended in a No Contest with special outside enforcer Vince McMahon.. ~~~~The NXT group showed up and attacked John Cena... but then they surrounded Vince McMahon and shockingloy destroyed him! June 28, 2010--RAW: Jerry Lawler and some other legends honored Ricky Steamboat and hyped the release of his new DVD.. ~~~The other legends in the ring consisted of Arn Anderson & Dean Malenko & Mike "IRS" Rotunda & Michael P.S. Hayes .. ~~~The Nexus (minus Wade Barrett) showed up and attacked Ricky Steamboat and physically destroyed him with all their finishers. July 5, 2010--RAW: The Nexus assembled in the ring where they were informed the physical contact ban on them would be lifted.. ~~~John Cena came out with Randy Orton, Evan Bourne, David Hart Smith, Tyson Kidd, R-Truth, and John Morrison with him.. ~~~However, some heels (Sheamus, Edge, Jericho, The, Ted DiBiase, and the Usos) attacked them allowing the Nexus to escape! ~~~~~~~~The anonymous General Manager called for a truce, so John Cena met Wade Barrett in the ring at the end of the night.. ~~~~~~~~Cena teased a handshake but pulled it... then he was attacked by the Nexus until a bunch of babyfaces storm the ring! July 12, 2010--RAW: The Nexus surrounded Sheamus backstage, and he felt threatened so he ran off to find John Cena! ~~~Nexus (Wade Barrett & Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel & Skip Sheffield & Michael Tarver & David Otunga) beat John Cena .. ~~~After the match; Nexus surrounded Cena in the ring until Sheamus ran out and stood side by side with Cena with steel chairs.. July 13, 2010--NXT: Nexus were invited back to NXT and participated in a 20-Man Battle Royal featuring Season 2 Pros & Rookies.. .. ~~~Nexus (Justin Gabriel & Heath Slater & David Otunga & Wade Barrett & Michael Tarver & Skip Sheffield) won the battle royal ! July 18, 2010--Money in the Bank: Sheamus defeated John Cena in a Steel Cage match to retain the WWE Championship.. ~~~Nexus interfered and sabotaged John Cena's chances of winning, and Sheamus used this to his advantage and escaped the cage! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~John Cena was extremely angry and took his frustrations out on Nexus members Darren Young & Michael Tarver.. World Wrestling Entertainment - The Road to SummerSlam: July 19, 2010--RAW: Wade Barrett defeated Mark Henry - (After the match; Barrett called out John Cena for an in-ring truce).. ~~~Instead, Cena formed an Army consisting of Edge, John Morrison, R-Truth, Great Khali, Chris Jericho, & Bret "Hitman" Hart! July 26, 2010--RAW: The Nexus as a group surrounded the Great Khali in the ring but eventually allowed him to leave unharmed... ~~The Nexus beat Team RAW (Goldust & Mark Henry & Yoshi Tatsu & Jerry Lawler & Evan Bourne & Tyson Kidd & DH Smith) ~~~The Nexus eliminated all seven members of the RAW B-team and promised that the same thing would happen at SummerSlam! August 2, 2010--RAW: Edge vs. Wade Barrett ended in a No Contest when the Nexus showed up (Edge then quit Team WWE!) August 9, 2010--RAW: The Nexus attacked the Hart Dynasty backstage to get under the skin of Team WWE member Bret Hitman Hart. ~~~~~~~The Nexus attacked Mark Henry (who was set to join Team WWE) - they also took out the Great Khali in a backstage assault.. ~~~John Cena & Bret Hart vs. Edge & Chris Jericho with the Nexus as Lumberjacks ended with Team WWE coming together as a group.. August 15, 2010--SummerSlam: Team WWE defeated Team Nexus in a 7-on-7 Elimination match (John Cena sole survivor!) ~~~~~Team WWE (John Cena & Edge & Chris Jericho & John Morrison & R-Truth & Daniel Bryan & Bret "The Hitman" Hart) ~~~~~Nexus (Wade Barrett & Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel & Darren Young & Michael Tarver & Skip Sheffield & David Otunga) World Wrestling Entertainment - The Nexus gets stronger: August 16, 2010--RAW: Skip Sheffield & David Otunga defeated John Morrison & R-Truth (Nexus went 5-1 vs. Team WWE tonight) ~~~~~~~~Later that night; The Nexus destroyed Darren Young (the only member to lose his match) and kicked him out of the group! August 23, 2010--RAW: Slow week for the Nexus... Wade Barrett was put in a Six Pack Challenge at Night of Champions.. August 30, 2010--RAW: Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. The Undertaker never got started because the Nexus destroyed the Undertaker.. ~~~LATER: The Nexus defeated Team WWE in a 5-on-5 Elimination Match which ended with Wade Barrett as the sole survivor.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Nexus (Wade Barrett & Justin Gabriel & Heath Slater & Michael Tarver & David Otunga).. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Team WWE (John Cena & Randy Orton & Edge & Chris Jericho & WWE champion Sheamus) September 19, 2010--Night of Champions: The Nexus interfered in the Six Pack Challenge, causing John Cena to be eliminated.. September 20, 2010--RAW: John Cena defeated The Nexus in a Gauntlet match after the Nexus jumped in the ring and attacked Cena.. ~~Cena beat Heath Slater | Cena beat David Otunga | Cena beat Michael Tarver | Cena vs. Justin Gabriel was cut short due to the assault. October 1, 2010--SmackDown!: The Nexus invaded SmackDown! and interrupted the opening match - but the Big Show came to rescue! ~~~The Nexus (Wade Barrett & Justin Gabriel & David Otunga & Michael Tarver & Heath Slater) beat The Big Show (Handicap match).. ~~~~~~MAIN EVENT: World Heavyweight champion Kane vs. John Cena ended in a No Contest with the Nexus acting as lumberjacks.. October 3, 2010--Hell in a Cell PPV: Wade Barrett defeated John Cena in a "Cena joins Nexus vs. Nexus must disband" match.. ~~~John Cena had the match won when two "fans" (Michael McGullicutty & Husky Harris) interfered and help Wade Barrett win! ~~~The Nexus (Justin Gabriel & Heath Slater & Michael Tarver & David Otunga) came to celebrated with Wade Barrett in the ring.. World Wrestling Entertainment - John Cena joins the Nexus: October 4, 2010--RAW: Wade Barrett & The Nexus celebrated their victory and presented John Cena with an official "N" armband.. ~~~MAIN EVENT: Heath Slater and the Nexus participated in a 20-Man Battle Royal (won by Wade Barrett with help from John Cena).. October 24, 2010--Bragging Rights: John Cena & David Otunga defeated Drew McIntyre & Cody Rhodes to win the Tag Team titles! ~~~~~~~~~~~David Otunga did a big celebration as if he was the reason they won, so John Cena gave him an Attitude Adjustment! October 25, 2010--RAW: Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel defeated David Otunga & John Cena to win the WWE Tag Team titles.. ~~~David Otunga complained to Wade Barrett that John Cena was against him, and therefore could not co-exist as Tag Team champion.. ~~~Barrett booked the match and forced Otunga to lay on his back and get pinned so they could keep the tag team titles inside of Nexus... November 1, 2010--RAW: Randy Orton & R-Truth defeated Wade Barrett & David Otunga with special guest referee John Cena.. November 5, 2010--SmackDown!: Edge vs. Alberto Del Rio ended in a No Contest when the Nexus showed up and took over the show.. ~~~MAIN EVENT: Team SmackDown! defeated The Nexus in a 10-Man Tag Team Match - (Edge speared and pinned Otunga to win!).. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ Team SmackDown! = Edge & Kane & Alberto Del Rio & Kofi Kingston & The Big Show defeated The Nexus.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ The Nexus = David Otunga & Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel & Michael McGillicutty & Husky Harris.. November 8, 2010--RAW: John Cena defeated David Otunga (Wade Barrett & Nexus went backstage so Otunga could prove himself). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Nexus defeated Team Orton in a Ten Man Tag Team Match with special guest referee John Cena.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Nexus = Wade Barrett & Justin Gabriel & Heath Slater & Michael McGillicutty & Husky Harris.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Team Orton = Randy Orton & R-Truth & Mark Henry & Daniel Bryan & Mike Mizanin w/Alex Riley.. November 12, 2010--SmackDown!: David Otunga defeated Edge with the Nexus & the SmackDown! Roster acting as Lumberjacks.. November 15, 2010--Old School RAW: Kofi Kingston defeated David Otunga (George "The Animal" Steele made an appearance!) November 21, 2010--Survivor Series: Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel w/Nexus beat Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov to retain their titles.. ~~~Randy Orton defeated Wade Barrett with special guest referee John Cena to retain the WWE Championship (The Nexus was banned).. ~~~The stipulation was that if Barrett won the title, John Cena would be free, but if Barrett lost, then Cena would be FIRED FROM WWE! ~~~~~~CONCLUSION: This meant that John Cena was fired from the WWE (in storyline) - so they did a pretend farewell to say good-bye.. World Wrestling Entertainment - Nexus vs. "unemployed" John Cena: November 22, 2010--RAW: John Cena gave a farewell speech but came back to screw Wade Barrett out of his rematch with Randy Orton.. November 29, 2010--King of the Ring: John Cena showed up and took out Nexus members Michael McGillicutty & Heath Slater.. ~~~Wade Barrett went to the ring and called out John Cena, who only appeared on the big screen standing outside in the parking lot.. ~~~The remaining members of Nexus showed up intending to attack John Cena, but he was protected by members of the WWE roster! December 6, 2010--RAW: Wade Barrett called out John Cena and told him his tricks won't work because he will NEVER rehire him in WWE.. ~~~John Cena said he was happy hanging out with the fans every week and thinking of new ways to make the lives of the Nexus miserable! ~~~~Nexus walked out on Barrett, allowing Cena to attack him! Nexus said Barrett would be kicked out of the group if he didn't rehire Cena.. December 13, 2010--The Slammy Awards: Nexus leader Wade Barrett accepted the award for "Shocker of the Year" for invading RAW.. ~~~Wade Barrett officially rehired John Cena.... The Nexus quickly attacked Cena while Barrett grabbed a chair and used it to bash Cena! ~~~~~~~John Cena defeated Nexus member David "A-List" Otunga - (Nexus walked out allowing Cena to absolutely destroy Otunga!) World Wrestling Entertainment - The NEW Nexus led by C.M. Punk: December 27, 2010--RAW: C.M. Punk began the night promising John Cena that there would be a huge surprise in store for him tonight! ~~~LATER: John Cena was assaulted by Nexus (David Otunga & Heath Slater & Justin Grabriel & Husky Harris & Michael McGillicutty).. ~~C.M. Punk came out and sat down next to an unconcious Cena, before putting a Nexus armband on, signifying he was their new leader! January 3, 2011--RAW: Wade Barrett returned to confront the new Nexus leader (C.M. Punk), claiming he was still the leader of the group.. ~~~~~~C.M. Punk said if Wade Barrett won the triple threat steel cage match tonight he could be the leader and Punk would work for him.. ~~~~Barrett lost when Punk showed up to "help," but instead ripped the Nexus armband off Barrett's arm and kicked him down to the mat! January 10, 2011--RAW: Vladimir Kozlov & Santino Marella w/Tamina were attacked in the ring by C.M. Punk & the New Nexus.. ~~~Nexus leader C.M. Punk announced that each member would make a sacrifice tonight and be officially initiated into the New Nexus.. . ~~~Michael McGillicutty, Husky Harris, & David Otunga all went through their initiations. . . but Slater & Gabriel refused and quit Nexus! ~~~~~The Big Show destroyed David Otunga with a choke-slam and knockout punch - (this was Otunga's initiation into the New Nexus) January 17, 2011--RAW: C.M. Punk defeated John Cena by DQ when an unidentified assailant jumped in and kicked Punk in the face! ~~The monster then took out John Cena with a Rock Bottom.... The Nexus ran down to protect their leader, but Punk called them off.. ~~The new guy dropped to his knee and raised his arm in the air, allowing Punk to place a Nexus arm-band so he could join the group.. January 24, 2011--RAW: The Nexus got into a confrontation with The Corre and set up a main event between C.M. Punk & Wade Barrett.. ~~~~~C.M. Punk (w/The Nexus) vs. Wade Barrett (w/The Corre) ended in a Double DQ after special referee John Cena "abused his power".. January 30, 2011--Royal Rumble: David Otunga entered the Royal Rumble at #15 but was later eliminated by John Cena... ~~~Husky Harris (#9), Michael McGillicutty (#13), David Otunga (#15), Mason Ryan (#20) all entered and proceeded to help C.M. Punk. ~~~Together, the Nexus dominated for several minutes eliminating 10+ people until John Cena entered and eliminated the entire Nexus! ~~~NOTE: At the beginning of the Rumble; The Corre and The Nexus got into a huge brawl before they were ordered to go backstage! February 7, 2011--RAW: David Otunga vs. King Sheamus ended in No Contest when Mark Henry attacked Sheamus and they brawled.. February 14, 2011--RAW: R-Truth & John Morrison defeated Nexus (David Otunga & Michael McGillicutty w/ Mason Ryan).. The Anonymous G.M. said over the next few weeks if any Nexus member beats Orton they can be in Punk's corner at WrestleMania.. February 28, 2011--RAW: Randy Orton defeated Michael McGillicutty with an RKO and then took him out with a punt kick to the head! March 7, 2011--RAW: Randy Orton defeated David Otunga with an RKO and then took him out with a swift punt kick to the head! March 14, 2011--RAW: Randy Orton defeated Mason Ryan with an RKO and then took him out with a swift punt kick to the head!