Professional wrestling career : Ring name(s) Big E
Big E Langston
Billed height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Billed weight 290 lb (130 kg)
Billed from Tampa, Florida[
Trained by Florida Championship Wrestling
WWE NXT
Debut December 17, 2009
Ettore Ewen : (born March 1, 1986) also known by his former ring name Big E Langston and currently performing as Big E, is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE. He is a one time WWE Intercontinental Champion, and was also a former NXT Champion while at WWE's developmental territory, NXT. He is also a national powerlifting champion who has set multiple national and state records in the raw division.
Background :Ewen was born in Tampa, Florida to Afro-Caribbean immigrants Eltore and Margaret Ewen. Ewen attended Wharton High School, where he won a number of athletic honors, including being named Hillsborough County's "Ironman of the Year". Upon graduating from Wharton, Ewen attended the University of Iowa, where he continued competing football as a defensive lineman for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Ewen was redshirted in 2004 and missed the 2005 season due to an injury sustained in pre-season camp, playing a single season as a sophomore in 2006.Ewen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.As a Florida high school wrestling state champion and a Division I college football letter winner, Ewen competed in a number of different athletic disciplines at an elite level before turning his attention to the sport of powerlifting. His debut was in 2009
Powerlifting career : Ewen competed in his first U.S.A. Powerlifting (USAPL) meet on July 11 at the fifth annual United States Open Championships 2010 at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. He became not only the top heavyweight lifter but also broke all four Florida state raw powerlifting records in the 275-pound class and bested raw national records in the deadlift and total. His lifts included a 611 pound squat, a 490 pound bench press and a 749 pound deadlift for a 1,850 pound raw total. Ewen also won the USAPL Raw Nationals 2011 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This time he competed in the super heavyweight division (+275) and broke the raw American and national records in the deadlift (799 lbs) and total (2,039 lbs) in this weight class as well. Although all of his national and American raw records were broken in 2011 and 2012 by Michael Tuchscherer, Brad Gillingham and Randall Harris, Ewen still holds the USAPL Florida State Raw Records in deadlift and total in the SHW division as well as all four raw powerlifting records in the 275-pound class.
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