Sawyer Fulton
| Sawyer Fulton | |
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Fulton in April 2016
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| Birth name | Jacob Southwick |
| Born |
April 2, 1990 Toledo, Ohio, United States |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Big Jake South Jacob Southwick Sawyer Fulton |
| Billed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Billed weight | 315 lb (143 kg) |
| Billed from | Toledo, Ohio, United States |
| Trained by | Jimmie Lee WWE Performance Center |
| Debut | 2010 |
Jacob Southwick (born April 2, 1990) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is working in their developmental territory NXT under the ring name Sawyer Fulton.
Southwick attended Ashland University, where he is a former Greco-Roman All-American and a two-time NCAA All-American amateur wrestler. He cited Kurt Angle as his favorite wrestler growing up.
Southwick trained to be a professional wrestler at the ASWA Pro Wrestling Training Center in Mansfield, Ohio. He made his professional wrestling debut for Mid-Ohio Wrestling as Big Jake South on Oct 16, 2010, defeating Izzy Lambert. He won the Mid-Ohio Tag Team Titles with Cyrus Poe, and challenged unsuccessfully for various other championships within the promotion including as the Tri-County Heavyweight Title and the World Title.
In September 2012 it was reported that Southwick had signed with WWE. He was later renamed Sawyer Fulton. He made his televised NXT debut on May 2, 2013, where he appeared as an enhancement talent in a tag-team match against The Wyatt Family (Erick Rowan and Luke Harper). He then continued to make sporadic televised appearances on NXT as an enhancement talent over the next three years, often as part of a tag-team with Angelo Dawkins with the duo being defeated by teams such as Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady, The Vaudevillains, Blake and Murphy and the The Hype Bros.
In March 2016, Fulton formed a tag-team with Alexander Wolfe at NXT live events.
In September 2016 Fulton and Wolfe joined a stable named Sanity along with Eric Young and Nikki Cross. The stable made its debut on the October 12, 2016 episode of NXT, with Wolfe and Fulton defeating the team of Bobby Roode and Tye Dillinger as part of the 2016 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. On November 2, in the second round of the Tag Team Classic, Fulton and Wolfe beat fan favourites T.J. Perkins and Kota Ibushi. They were knocked out of the tournament in the semi finals by TM-61. Fulton was removed from Sanity after an injury in November 2016.
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