Adrian Neville is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling, where he was the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion.
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50 Facts About Adrian Neville
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Adrian Neville is one-third of the current AEW World Trios Champions with his Death Triangle stablemates The Lucha Brothers.
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Adrian Neville is known for his six-year tenure in WWE from 2012 to 2018, where he competed under the ring name Adrian Neville.
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Adrian Neville is a former PWG World Tag Team Champion and winner of PWG's inaugural Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament.
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Adrian Neville won the NXT Tag Team Championship twice, with his first reign being as one half of the inaugural champions with Oliver Grey and the other reign with Corey Graves.
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Adrian Neville is a one-time NXT Champion, making him the first man to have held both the NXT Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship.
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Adrian Neville was extremely active as a child and participated in sports such as football, hockey, roller hockey, basketball, and swimming.
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Adrian Neville's interest in wrestling came about through one of his aunts, who was a fan of the World Wrestling Federation.
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Adrian Neville's parents had banned him from watching wrestling at their house, so he would go to his aunt's house to watch it.
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Adrian Neville started training as a wrestler on a more permanent basis at the age of 18 at St Joseph's Hall in Gateshead, described by Satterley as "pretty much the only wrestling school in the area".
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Adrian Neville won his first championship on 26 August 2005 when he teamed up with Harry Pain to defeat Chris Prime.
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Adrian Neville debuted on 14 October 2005 and defeated EdEn and Falcon in the opening match.
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Adrian Neville then captured the 3CW Triple Crown Championship at an ICW event, which he held for 110 days.
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Adrian Neville later had two more shots at the top title in IPW:UK against Stone and then against Andy Boy Simmonz but came up short.
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Adrian Neville successfully retained the title on several occasions before losing it to James Wallace on 30 June 2007 in a match that started immediately after Pac retained the title in a four-way match.
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Adrian Neville defeated Trent Acid in the first round before falling to Nigel McGuinness in the quarter finals.
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Adrian Neville defeated Jack Evans in a first round match then Claudio Castagnoli in a second round match before losing to eventual tournament winner Cima in a semi-final round match.
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Adrian Neville lost to Ryusuke Taguchi the following day, and was eliminated from the tournament.
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Adrian Neville joined WWE's developmental territory NXT, and made his television debut using the ring name Adrian Neville on the 16 January 2013 episode of NXT, where he defeated Sakamoto.
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Adrian Neville continued his feud with the Wyatt Family by losing to them in two six-man tag matches, once while teaming with Corey Graves and Kassius Ohno, and once with Graves and William Regal.
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Adrian Neville faced former tag partner Bo Dallas for the title on the next episode and won by countout, which meant that the title did not change hands.
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Two episodes later, Adrian Neville faced Dallas again for the title in a lumberjack match, but lost when lumberjack Tyler Breeze interfered.
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At NXT Arrival, Adrian Neville won the NXT Championship from Dallas in a ladder match.
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The feud ended with Adrian Neville scoring a No Disqualification match victory over Clay to successfully defend the NXT Championship.
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At NXT TakeOver, Adrian Neville successfully defended the NXT Championship against Tyson Kidd.
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Two weeks later, Adrian Neville retained his championship against Kidd again after Natalya prevented Kidd from using a chair.
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Adrian Neville received a rematch on the 15 January 2015 episode of NXT, but failed to regain the title.
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Adrian Neville then defeated Bad News Barrett at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view the following month.
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At the Survivor Series pre-show, Adrian Neville would compete in a traditional Survivor Series match, teaming with The Dudley Boyz, Goldust and Titus O'Neil in a victory over Stardust, The Ascension, The Miz and Bo Dallas.
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At the Royal Rumble on 24 January 2016, Adrian Neville competed in his first Royal Rumble match as the number 16 entrant, lasting over 10 minutes before being eliminated by Luke Harper.
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In March 2016, Adrian Neville injured his ankle during a match with Chris Jericho on Raw, rendering him out of action for an estimated two to three months and forcing him to miss WrestleMania 32, at which he was scheduled to compete.
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Adrian Neville teamed with Sami Zayn to defeat The Dudley Boyz at SummerSlam.
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The following night on Raw, Adrian Neville failed to defeat Kevin Owens to qualify for a fatal four-way elimination match for the vacant WWE Universal Championship after the interference of Chris Jericho.
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The following night on Raw, Adrian Neville cemented his villainous turn after claiming that the fans only cheered him because he was "vulnerable or small" and proceeded to attack Swann along with Brian Kendrick after he interrupted him, followed by Perkins after he attempted to save Swann.
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On 29 January 2017 at the Royal Rumble, Adrian Neville defeated Swann to capture the Cruiserweight Championship for the first time, marking his first title win on the main roster.
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Adrian Neville then started a feud with Jack Gallagher, and successfully defended his title at Fastlane against Gallagher.
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Around this time, Neville formed an alliance with T J Perkins, who would assist him in his rivalry with Aries, in exchange for a promised championship opportunity.
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Adrian Neville defeated Aries again in a submission match at Extreme Rules to retain the Cruiserweight Championship, concluding their rivalry in the process.
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Adrian Neville then began feuding with Akira Tozawa who was granted a championship match for Great Balls of Fire by Titus O'Neil, in which Adrian Neville retained the title.
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However, Adrian Neville won the title back from Tozawa on the SummerSlam pre-show, making him the first-ever two-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion with the current belt.
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The following night on Raw, a double turn took place; Amore turned heel by disparaging the cruiserweight division, while Adrian Neville turned face when he spoke on behalf of the cruiserweights and attempted to attack Amore.
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Amore revealed he had a no-contact clause, which prevents any of the cruiserweights of receiving a future title shot should they attack him, but Adrian Neville attacked him nonetheless after the cruiserweights prevented Amore from leaving.
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The next night on 205 Live, after Adrian Neville defeated Ariya Daivari, he was attacked by Amore with a crutch.
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45.
In January 2018, WWE froze Adrian Neville's contract, keeping him under contract indefinitely or until a release is agreed upon.
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Adrian Neville held the championship until 21 July 2019, when he would lose it to Ben-K, ending his reign at 229 days.
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Adrian Neville's favorite band is The Specials, and his WWE ring name was a reference to one of their former band members, Neville Staple.
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Adrian Neville is close friends with fellow professional wrestlers Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, Bryan Danielson, Zack Sabre Jr, Kenta, and Shingo Takagi.
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Adrian Neville is a playable character in WWE 2K15 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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