Joseph Ruud is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE where he performed under the ring name Erick Rowan. He previously wrestled in Japan, having trained and performed for Pro Wrestling Noah. He signed a contract with WWE in 2011 and was sent to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling. In WWE, he is a one-time NXT Tag Team Champion, and a two-time SmackDown Tag Team Championship,. He is currently wrestling under the name Erick Redbeard.
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Joseph Ruud is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE where he performed under the ring name Erick Rowan. He previously wrestled in Japan, having trained and performed for Pro Wrestling Noah. He signed a contract with WWE in 2011 and was sent to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling. In WWE, he is a one-time NXT Tag Team Champion, and a two-time SmackDown Tag Team Championship,. He is currently wrestling under the name Erick Redbeard. Ruud’s family is of Norwegian descent, having emigrated from Nannestad. He attended the University of Minnesota Morris, where he played football. He also trained with Eddie Sharkey in 2003, going by the ring names Thoruf Marius, competing for various promotions throughout the Midwest until 2007. In 2008, he began competing for the Minnesota-based F1rst Wrestling promotion. In February 2011, Ruud signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. He made his debut on the December 12, 2012 episode of NXT as a follower of Bray Wyatt, who introduced Rowan as his second son. As a member of The Wyatt Family, Rowan formed a tag team with Wyatt’s first son, Luke Harper, and they defeated Percy Watson and Yoshi Tatsu on January 9, 2013. On the June 5, 2013, Harper and Rowan successfully retained their championship against Corey Graves and Kassius Ohno, and on the June 19, 2013 episodes of NXT, they defeated the team of Neville, Graves and Ohno.
Rowan and Harper also started a feud with Usos, unsuccessfully challenging the Usos for the Money in the Bank Championship at Money In The Bank. In early 2014, he took part in the Wyatt Family’s feud with The Shield, while supporting Bray Wyatt in his feud against John Cena. On September 29, 2014, The Wyatt family was dissolved by Wyatt, marking the transition of its members into singles competition for the first time in its history. He has a son, Erick Redbeard, who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and two children. He currently works as a professional wrestler in the United States, and has appeared on several reality TV shows, including The Voice, The Voice and The Voice 2, as well as appearing on WWE’s reality series The Voice 3 and 4. He recently appeared in a reality series on TLC, which he co-hosts with his son Erick. In 2011, he appeared on the first episode of TLC as a guest host. In 2012, he also appeared in TLC’s The Voice 4, appearing as the guest host on the second episode of the show. In 2013, he made his WWE in-ring debut, teaming up with Harper to defeat Tons of Funk in a tagteam match. In the same year, he and Harper went on a winning streak over many teams, until Cody Rhodes handed them their first Goldust match and Goldust handed them his first loss.
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