Rodney Begnaud

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Rodney Begnaud (born on October 12, 1970 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a professional wrestler. He previously worked for World Wrestling Entertainment as a performer for its RAW and SmackDown! brands.

1 Career
- 1.1 Finishing and trademark moves
2 Personal life
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 Championship succession

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Career

Rodney started wrestling in 1998 as Red Dogg in the Southwest independents. He then was signed by the WWE to wrestle in Ohio Valley Wrestling and he changed his name to Red Dog Begnaud.

When he made his debut in WWE, he went by simply 'Redd Dogg' on the SmackDown! brand. He was placed alongside John Cena in an enforcer role replacing Bull Buchanan, but 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.

On Raw, he often competed in "White Boy Challenges". 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 less than a minute, losing any credibility Mack had built up.

Mack also teamed with Christopher Nowinski when Nowinski joined Theodore Long's Group as a White male who helped with long's race angle, until Nowinski suffered from Post-Concussion Syndrome and retired from wrestling.

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 a month and were fairly successful and caused some upsets over some household WWE tag teams.

In November of 2003, he suffered a knee injury, which prevented him from wrestling. Begnaud was supposed to return to action between March and June 2004, but was sent back to Ohio Valley Wrestling.

Rodney was a mainstay on RAW's sister show Sunday Night HEAT.

WWE has since released Mack from his contract. In 2005, Rodney can be found competing in NWA Cyberspace and the independents of the Southwest.

In late 2005, Rodney Mack and Jazz opened up Downsouth Championship Wrestling. An independent promotion based in Louisiana.

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