Nikola Bogojevic is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Otis. He won the national title in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Junior Pan-American Games in 2011, and a bronze medal at the 2014 Pan- American Games. In 2017, he was named the Rookie of the Year by Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
About Otis (wrestler) in brief
Nikola Bogojevic is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Otis. He has since teamed with Tucker Knight as part of Heavy Machinery. During his time on the main roster, Otis won the 2020 men’s Money in the Bank ladder match. He won the national title in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Junior Pan-American Games in 2011, and a bronze medal at the 2014 Pan- American Games. He was a prospect for the 2012 Summer Olympics team, but was not chosen. In 2017, he was named the Rookie of the Year by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. He is the son of Serbian-American parents who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s. He attended Superior High School in Duluth, Minnesota, and was the 2010 285lb undefeated WIAA State Champion.
He wrestled at collegiate level for Augsburg College and Colorado State University-Pueblo. In 2015, he trained to become a professional wrestler at the Mercury Pro Wrestling Academy in Arvada, Colorado. He made his debut at a NXT house show on July 8, 2016, teamed with Adrian Jaoude in a loss to The Authors of Pain. On December 17, 2018, it was announced that HeavyMachinery would be debuting on themain roster. They debuted on the January 14, 2019 episode of Raw, interrupting an interview between Alexa Bliss and Paul Heyman. The following week on Raw, they defeated The Ascension in their in-ring debut. In February, his ring name was shortened to Otis, while Knight’s ring namewas shortened to Tucker.
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