Curt Hawkins
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Hawkins in 2012
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| Birth name | Brian Myers |
| Born |
April 20, 1985 Glen Cove, New York, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Lizzie Karcher (m. 2015) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Brandon Myers Brian Major Brian Majors Brian Myers Curt Hawkins |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Billed weight | 223 lb (101 kg) |
| Billed from | Queens, New York |
| Trained by | Mikey Whipwreck |
| Debut | 2004 |
Brian Myers (born April 20, 1985) is an American professional wrestler and promoter currently signed with WWE under the ring name Curt Hawkins on the SmackDown brand. Hawkins initially competed in WWE from 2006 to 2014, and returned to the company in 2016 after wrestling on the independent circuit.
Myers is a two-time World Tag Team Champion being a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion with Zack Ryder and one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with Trevor Lee.
After being trained by Mikey Whipwreck, Myers made his debut in 2004, using his real name. He wrestled for the New York Wrestling Connection (NYWC) promotion. By 2005 he began regularly teaming with Brett Matthews and the duo of Myers and Matthews went on to defeat the NYWC Tag Team Champions Dickie Rodz and Mason Raige by disqualification, for which titles do not change hands. At the next event on June 4 they won a rematch decisively to become Tag Team Champions. Later that month they were attacked by The Dead Presidents (Lo Lincoln and Boog Washington) to set up a feud where they eventually lost their titles against them in July. on August 27. On September 23 they were entered into a three way match with the champions but Team Tremendous (Dan Barry and Ken Scampi) ended up with the belts. After continuing to win matches they re-earned a match against Team Tremendous and won the titles for the second time on January 25, 2006. They held the titles until they faced the B.S. Xpress (Tony Burma and Mike Spinelli), who defeated them for the gold on March 26.
On February 24, 2006, Brian Myers signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. He was given the ring name Brian Majors and teamed up with his former tag team partner Bret Matthews, who was renamed Brett Majors, to form the tag team the Majors Brothers. Together they won the Deep South Wrestling DSW Tag Team Championship on two occasions. They later won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship.
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