Brooks Jensen | |
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Birth name | Benjamin Buchanan |
Born | Ranburne, Alabama, U.S. | August 21, 2001
Parent(s) | Bull Buchanan (father) |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Ben Buchanan Brooks Jensen |
Billed height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) [1] |
Billed weight | 243 lb (110 kg) [1] |
Trained by | Bull Buchanan |
Debut | March 2, 2019 |
Benjamin Buchanan (born August 21, 2001) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Brooks Jensen. In WWE, he is a one-time NXT UK Tag Team Champion with Josh Briggs, and he and Briggs are recognized as the final holders of the championship.
Buchanan is a second generation wrestler and is the son of Bull Buchanan, who wrestled with the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment from 1997 until 2003.
Buchanan was born in 2001 in Ranburne, Alabama and is the son of former WWE wrestler Barry Buchanan who wrestled in the WWE from 1997 to 2003 under the ring names Bull Buchanan and B².
Buchanan debuted on March 2, 2019. [2] He went on to work throughout the southern wrestling territories, mostly appearing in promotions in Alabama and Georgia. He became a one-time Heavyweight Champion [3] and a multiple-time Tag Team Champion between 2020 and 2021. [4] [5]
It was announced on August 30, 2021, Buchanan was one of six athletes signed to report to the WWE Performance Center. [6] He made his in ring debut on the September 14 episode of NXT 2.0 as Brooks Jensen teaming with fellow NXT rookie Josh Briggs in a tag match against Imperium (Marcel Barthel and Fabian Aichner). [7] They would work as a tag team during the following month, participating in the 2022 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament and had two matches for the NXT Tag Team Championship, but they didn't win the tournament nor the titles. [8] [9] [10] On June 22 taping of NXT UK , they would make their debut in the UK brand in a fatal four-way elimination match to win the vacant NXT UK Tag Team Championship, making them the first and only non-European tag team to win the titles, [11] as well as the first ever male superstar born in the 2000s to win a championship in WWE. On April 1, 2023, at NXT Stand and Deliver, Jensen refused to give Kiana James her handbag to cheat and caused Fallon Henley and Kiana James to lose the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship to Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn. On the April 11, 2023, episode of NXT, Jensen shoves Briggs on the floor causing Fallon Henley and Kiana James to lose the rematch against Fyre and Dawn to retain the NXT Women's Tag Team Titles. On April 18, 2023, episode of NXT, Jenson and James challenged Briggs and Henley to a mixed tag team match. On the April 25, 2023, episode of NXT Spring Breakin, Jensen and Kiana James were defeated by Josh Briggs and Fallon Henley in a mixed tag team match, After the match, James walked out on Jensen causing him to go back to Briggs and Henley.
On the December 27, 2023 episode of NXT, Briggs, Henley and Jensen agree to go their separate ways splitting up the team.
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