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Rodney Begnaud
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Redd Dogg / Redd Dawg Gavin Archibald Badd Dogg Rodney Mack
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Billed weight	265 lb (120 kg)
Born	October 12, 1972 (1972-10-12) (age 35) Lafayette, Louisiana
Billed from	New Orleans, Louisiana
Trained by	Junkyard Dog
Debut	1998

Rodney Begnaud (born on October 12, 1972) is a professional wrestler. He has previously worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW and SmackDown! brands under the ring name Rodney Mack and currently wrestles under the name Redd Dawg.

Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 2.1 Independent circuit / Extreme Championship Wrestling (1998-2002) 2.2 World Wrestling Entertainment (2003-2004) 2.3 Return to World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-2007) 2.4 Return to the independent circuit (2007-Current) 3 In wrestling 4 Championships and accomplishments 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External links

Rodney first started wrestling during high school. He was on the varsity team at Northside High School in Lafayette, Louisiana. Begnaud was also a successful football player, becoming a three-year letter winner at the University of Arkansas at Monticello and earning All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference honors in 1994.

Rodney started wrestling in 1998 as Redd Dogg (also spelt as Red Dogg) in the Southwest independents.^[1]After working on the independent circuit, Mack signed on with Extreme Championship Wrestling in 2000, making his debut as a member of Da Baldies.

After ECW's closure, Begnaud was signed by WWE to wrestle in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and he changed his name to Gavin Archibald. When he made his debut on the January 16, 2003 episode of SmackDown!, he went by his original Redd Dogg name.^[2] He was placed alongside John Cena in an enforcer role, replacing Bull Buchanan, who was betrayed by Cena (and then released soon after), but Begnaud didn't last long in that role before he was switched over to RAW and renamed Rodney Mack. He made his RAW debut, attacking D'Lo Brown on HEAT, replacing him to be managed by Theodore Long.^[3][4]

Mack re-started Theodore Long's group Thuggin' And Buggin' Enterprises, which eventually turned into a group of African Americans who worked a race angle in which they felt they were victims of racism and were being held down by the white man.^[5] Then Jazz joined the group in April, 2003. ^[6]

On RAW, he often competed in "White Boy Challenges".^[7] In these challenges, usually, a Caucasian wrestler would wrestle Mack for five minutes and attempt to beat Mack. He was undefeated in these matches until he was challenged and defeated by Goldberg in 26 seconds.^[8]

Mack also teamed with Christopher Nowinski when Nowinski joined Theodore Long's Group as a white male who helped with Long's race angle,^[9] until Nowinski suffered from post concussion syndrome and retired from wrestling.^[10]

A few months later manager Theodore Long announced a new tag team partner for Mack. He was the World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry. Mack and Henry competed as a team for about two months and were fairly successful and caused some upsets over some household WWE tag teams.^[11][12]

In November 2003, he suffered a knee injury which prevented him from wrestling.^[1] Begnaud was supposed to return to action between March and June 2004, but was sent back to OVW and worked RAW dark matches throughout June and July of 2004.^[13][14][15] Mack made his return to WWE television on July 26, 2004 participating in an over the top rope battle royal for a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship.^[14] Mack was managed by his wife Jazz and was a mainstay on HEAT.

There were a few plans to push Mack's career. One idea was to under go a make-over and re-debut with a "Junkyard Dog" gimmick similar to Sylvester Ritter, who trained him. After those plans were scrapped, WWE Creative wanted to form a tag team consisting of Rodney Mack and Chuck Palumbo, who had been a mainstay on HEAT due to his lackluster Custom Chucky P gimmick that received no push. These two worked together at a number of house shows throughout September and October 2004,^{[16][17][18][19]} but these plans were also dropped. On November 4, 2004 WWE released Mack from his contract along with a few others including his wife Jazz.^[20]

In 2005, Rodney competed in NWA Cyberspace and the independents of the Southwest.^[21]

On September 15, 2006, it was reported on WWE.com that Rodney Mack along with Marty Jannetty and Brad Armstrong had been hired by WWE.^[22] He started wrestling at ECW house shows on September 30, 2006. Mack was brought back in September at the request of Paul Heyman. He wanted to use him as a tough guy to do a program with CM Punk, where Punk would win in a stepping stone of climbing the ladder. However, after Mack was signed, Heyman's plan was overruled and he never made it on to television. On January 18, 2007, Mack along with several other superstars (including his wife Jazz) were released by WWE.

Mack currently wrestles for Untamed Championship Wrestling in Arkansas. He is also a trainer with UCW. He recently took part in a UCW show entitled "Wrestle for the Cure" with proceeds going to help fight breast cancer.

In May 2007, Mack and Jazz were booked by the Queens of Chaos promotion in France. They wrestled in front of 72,000 people, which is the 2007 record for a wrestling show. A documentary will be released in 2008 from the event.

In November 2007, in an interview with ClubWWI.com, when asked if he was interested in signing with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Mack claimed that he and Jazz had called TNA many times. However, TNA had told him that he would call him back when they had more room on the roster but has yet to receive one phone call back. Mack says that the two were trying to sign with TNA since their first release from the WWE. Mack went on to say that he feels that Jazz and himself have been "blackballed" by the wrestling industry.

• Finishing and signature moves

• Dawg Pound (Kneeling spike double underhook powerbomb)
• Blackout (Cobra clutch with body scissors) - WWE
• Mack Attack DDT (Arm twist transitioned into a flowing snap DDT)
• Running powerslam
• Spinning spinebuster
• STO
• Spear
• Double leg slam

• Managers

• Theodore Long
• Jazz
• Sekou Berthe

• Theme songs

• Dogs Out Here (WWE produced theme)
• Don't Touch Me (WWE produced theme)
• McMillitant (Used when being managed by Theodore Long; later passed on to Mark Henry and currently being used by Theodore Long)

• Hazeltown Wrestling Alliance

• HWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Insane Hardcore Wrestling

• IHW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• NWA Southwest

• NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (3 times)^[23]

• Northeast Wrestling Federation

• NWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Ohio Valley Wrestling

• OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Shelton Benjamin^[24]

• XCW Wrestling

• XCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[25]

He is married to Carlene Begnaud, who also competed on RAW and recently competed (but was never seen) on the ECW brand under the alias Jazz.

• Rodney Mack Speaks On WWE's Backstage Politics, XCW
• Rodney Mack at Online World of Wrestling
• Rodney Mack at MySpace
• Rodney Mack at XCW

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NAME	Begnaud, Rodney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1972 (1972-10-12) (age 35)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lafayette, Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH