

Personal records Set in official competition All of his national and American raw records have since been broken. This time, he competed in the super heavyweight division (275+lbs) and broke the raw American and national records in the deadlift (799 lbs) and total (2,039 lbs). Ewen also won the 2011 USAPL Raw Nationals in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His lifts included a 611-pound squat, a 490-pound bench press, and a 749-pound deadlift for a 1,850 pound raw total. He became the top heavyweight lifter, breaking all four Florida state raw powerlifting records in the 275-pound class and besting raw national records in the deadlift and total. USAPL RAW National Powerlifting Championships Įwen competed in his first USA Powerlifting (USAPL) meet on July 11 at the 2010 United States Open Championships at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.


After college, Ewen turned his attention to the sport of powerlifting. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He redshirted in 2004 and missed the 2005 season due to an injury sustained in preseason camp, playing a single season as a sophomore in 2006. Upon graduating, Ewen attended the University of Iowa, where he played American football as a defensive lineman for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He attended Wharton High School in Tampa, where he won a number of athletic honors, including a state championship in wrestling and being named Hillsborough County's "Ironman of the Year". 3.1.6 New Day reunion and injury (2022–present)Įttore Ewen was born on March 1, 1986, in Tampa, Florida, the son of Jamaican and Montserratian immigrants Ettore and Margaret Ewen.3.1.5 Return to singles career and WWE Champion (2020–2022).He won the men's Money in the Bank ladder match in 2021, before successfully cashing it in later that year to win the WWE Championship, becoming the 33rd Triple Crown Champion in the company's history. In 2020, Ewen resumed his singles career and was eventually separated from his New Day teammates in the 2020 WWE Draft. As a part of The New Day, he holds the tandem record for the longest Raw Tag Team Championship reign at 483 days. Since his main roster debut, he has become a one-time WWE Champion, two-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time Raw Tag Team Champion, and six-time SmackDown Tag Team Champion. He was promoted to WWE's main roster in December 2012, and his ring name was shortened to Big E in February 2014. After FCW was rebranded to NXT, he became the second NXT Champion. Upon signing with WWE in 2009, Ewen was assigned to its developmental brand Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) under the ring name Big E Langston. He also won a state championship in high-school wrestling. In addition to his singles career in wrestling, he is a decorated tag team wrestler as part of The New Day with Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods.Įwen was a collegiate football player at the University of Iowa and later became a powerlifter and a USA Powerlifting champion.

He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Big E but is currently inactive due to an injury.
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New Infiniti recruit Martin Donnelly meanwhile was 24th in the morning, before slipping to 26th in the afternoon.Ettore Ewen (born March 1, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and former powerlifter. Jordan and Priaulx completed the top five in a closely fought session, ahead of Turkington, Shedden and Morgan. Matt Neal, ninth in the morning, also made a late surge to go second, 0.170s slower than the Irishman, with Jack Goff’s Triple Eight machine slotting into third just a further three thousandths back. The second session was interrupted by a red flag following a suspension failure-induced crash for the Proton of Dan Welch, after which Smith surged to the head of the standings on a 1m17.325s.
