Rodney Begnaud
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Redd Dogg Gavin Archibald Red Dogg Badd Dogg Rodney Mack
Billed height	ft  in ( m)
Billed weight	240 lb (109 kg)
Born	October 12 1972 (1972--) (age 35) Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
Billed from	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Trained by	Junkyard Dog
Debut	1998

Rodney Begnaud (born on October 12, 1972) is a professional wrestler. He has previously worked for the original ECW and WWE on the RAW brand.

Early years

Rodney first started wrestling during high school. He was on the varsity team at Northside High School in Lafayette, Louisiana. Begnaud was also a successful football player, becoming a three-year letter winner at the University of Arkansas at Monticello and earning All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference honors in 1994.

Career

Independent circuit / Extreme Championship Wrestling

Rodney started wrestling in 1998 as Red Dogg in the Southwest independents.^[1]After working on the independent circuit, Mack signed on with Extreme Championship Wrestling in 2000, making his debut as a member of Da Baldies.

World Wrestling Entertainment

After ECW's closure, Begnaud was signed by the WWE to wrestle in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and he changed his name to Gavin Archibald. When he made his debut on the January 16, 2003 episode of SmackDown!, he went by the simple 'Redd Dogg'.^[2] He was placed alongside John Cena in an enforcer role, replacing Bull Buchanan, who was betrayed by Cena (and then released soon after), but Begnaud didn't last long in that role before he was switched over to RAW and renamed Rodney Mack. He made his RAW debut, attacking D'Lo Brown on HEAT, replacing him to be managed by Theodore Long.^[3][4]

Mack re-started Theodore Long's group Thuggin' And Buggin' Enterprises, which eventually turned into a group of African Americans who worked a race angle in which they felt they were victims of racism and were being held down by the white man.^[5] Then Jazz joined the group in April, 2003. ^[6]

On RAW, he often competed in "White Boy Challenges".^[7] In these challenges, usually, a Caucasian wrestler would wrestle Mack for five minutes and attempt to beat Mack. He was undefeated in these matches until he was challenged and defeated by Goldberg in 26 seconds.^[8]

Mack also teamed with Christopher Nowinski when Nowinski joined Theodore Long's Group as a white male who helped with Long's race angle,^[9] until Nowinski suffered from post concussion syndrome and retired from wrestling.^[10]

A few months later manager Theodore Long announced a new tag team partner for Mack. He was the World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry. Mack and Henry competed as a team for about two months and were fairly successful and caused some upsets over some household WWE tag teams.^[11][12]

In November 2003, he suffered a knee injury which prevented him from wrestling.^[1] Begnaud was supposed to return to action between March and June 2004, but was sent back to OVW and worked RAW dark matches throughout June and July of 2004.^[13][14][15] Mack made his return to WWE television on July 26, 2004 participating in an over the top rope battle royal for a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship.^[14] Mack was managed by his wife Jazz and was a mainstay on HEAT.

There were a few plans to push Mack's career. One idea was to under go a make-over and re-debut with a "Junkyard Dog" gimmick similar to Sylvester Ritter, who trained him. After those plans were scrapped, WWE Creative wanted to form a tag team consisting of Rodney Mack and Chuck Palumbo, who had been a mainstay on HEAT due to his lackluster Custom Chucky P gimmick that received no push. These two worked together at a number of house shows throughout September and October 2004,^{[16][17][18][19]} but these plans were also dropped. On November 4, 2004 WWE released Mack from his contract along with a few others including his wife Jazz.^[20]

In 2005, Rodney competed in NWA Cyberspace and the independents of the Southwest.^[21]

Return to World Wrestling Entertainment

On September 15, 2006, it was reported on WWE.com that Rodney Mack along with Marty Jannetty and Brad Armstrong had been hired by WWE.^[22] He started wrestling at ECW house shows on September 30, 2006. Mack was brought back in September at the request of Paul Heyman. He wanted to use him as a tough guy to do a program with CM Punk, where Punk would win in a stepping stone of climbing the ladder. However, after Mack was signed, Heyman's plan was overruled and he never made it on to television. On January 18, 2007, Mack along with several other superstars (including his wife Jazz) were released by WWE.

In wrestling

• Finishing and signature moves

• Blackout (Cobra clutch with body scissors)
• Kneeling spike double underhook powerbomb
• Mack Attack DDT (Arm twist transitioned into a flowing snap DDT)
• Running powerslam
• Spinning spinebuster
• STO
• Spear
• Double leg slam

• Managers

• Theodore Long
• Jazz
• Sekou Berthe

Championships and accomplishments

• Hazeltown Wrestling Alliance

• HWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Insane Hardcore Wrestling

• IHW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• NWA Southwest

• NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (3 times)^[23]

• Northeast Wrestling Federation

• NWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Ohio Valley Wrestling

• OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Shelton Benjamin^[24]

• XCW Wrestling

• XCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[25]

Personal life

He is married to Carlene Begnaud, who also competed on RAW and recently competed (but was never seen) on the ECW brand under the alias Jazz.

References

External links

• Rodney Mack Speaks On WWE's Backstage Politics, XCW
• Rodney Mack at Online World of Wrestling
• Rodney Mack at MySpace
• Rodney Mack at XCW

Persondata
NAME	Begnaud, Rodney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12 1972 (1972--) (age 35)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lafayette, Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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