Sonjay Dutt
| Sonjay Dutt | |
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Dutt in November of 2006
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| Birth name | Retesh Bhalla |
| Born |
April 7, 1982 Washington, D.C. |
| Website | SonjayDutterson.com |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Monster J Schwagg Dutt Samosa Monster Sonjay Dutt |
| Billed height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Billed weight | 194 lb (88 kg) |
| Billed from |
Bombay, India Bollywood, India |
| Trained by |
Larry Sharpe Jon Dalton |
| Debut | 2000 |
Retesh Bhalla (born April 7, 1982) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sonjay Dutt. He is best known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He currently competes for Global Force Wrestling where he is a former GFW NEX*GEN Champion. His ring name is modeled after that of famous Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.
Dutt's parents moved to the United States from India before he was born, though most of his extended family still lives in New Delhi. Dutt graduated from the KYDA Pro Wrestling training school in northern Virginia. He later worked for KYDA Pro wrestling for the first two years of his professional career.
Dutt got his first break wrestling in Major League Wrestling in 2003 where he debuted the Dragon Rana on Jimmy Yang at the promotion's August 3 event, Summer Apocalypse. Dutt would go on to win an international tournament, hosted by MLW in September 2003 to win the company's Junior Heavyweight Championship, defeating Tony Mamaluke, Eddie Colón, and Christopher Daniels. In an early 2004 MLW Junior Heavyweight Title match Dutt pinned Jack Evans to retain the title at MLW Reloaded.
Dutt made his debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on October 15, 2003, when he teamed with Eric Young to defeat Jerrelle Clark and El Fuego in a tag team match. He began working regularly for the promotion the following year. In May 2004, Dutt began a Best of Three Series with Amazing Red to determine the number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship, which Red won. Throughout the summer of 2004 Dutt participated in the America's X-Cup as a part of Team USA along with Jerry Lynn, Chris Sabin, and Elix Skipper against Team AAA (Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila, Juventud Guerrera, and Abismo Negro). After several months, Dutt became the onscreen protégé of Sabu, with Raven using him to vicariously assault Sabu. In addition, Dutt acted as a mouthpiece for the perpetually mute Sabu. This angle was postponed and then dropped after Sabu was sidelined with various health problems, and in the interim Dutt made appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment, provoking rumors of an imminent contract offer.
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