Lukas Jacobs

Lukas Brandon Jacobs (born June 26, 1985) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where he competes in their developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW).

Before being signed by the WWE, Jacobs enrolled in the Team 3D Wrestling Academy where he was trained by the legendary tag team known collectively as Team 3D and the Dudley Boyz. After training with them at their Wrestling school for two years, Lukas was given a try out match with Ring of Honor. At first Lukas impressed ROH management and was given various other try out matches with some of their more known talent such as Colt Cabana and Austin Aries. However a few months later ROH management came to a decision not to offer Jacobs a contract. Following this Team 3D tried to get Lukas signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Management much like Ring of Honor agreed to give him a few tryout matches with Lukas even being able to come out on top in one of them against Jay Lethal. Problems with drugs and alchohol would bring Lukas' contract negotiations to a sudden end, following this he would be reprimanded by the Dudleyz on his decisions.

Lukas spent at least a year and a half away from wrestling and doing his best to fight his demons, Lukas would eventually check himself into a Rehab facility wanting to get better and get back in the ring. Lukas would be able to finish his rehab and would head down to Louiville, Kentucky and attempt to get with Ohio Valley Wrestling. One of the trainers, Al Snow thought he would be a perfect fit and agreed to help him out and managed to get him signed to a contract. Lukas had a relatively quick climb in OVW having won the Television Championship two months after debuting. Lukas would go on to lose the Television Championship to Mohammad Ali Vaez. This would lead to Lukas leaving OVW having had a few run ins with a few of the guys in the locker room.

Early life
Lukas "Luke" Brandon Jacobs was born on June 26th, 1985 in Los Angeles, California. Lukas was born into a wealthy family, is father being a doctor and his mother being a small time actress. Luke grew up watching wrestling and would watch the greats such as Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage and many more. Lukas was also a big Mick Foley fan with him having grown up in the Long Island area. In 2004 Lukas attended WrestleMania XX.

Shortly after college Lukas pursued his dream of being a wrestler and would move to Florida and would seek out Mark LoMonaco and Devon Hughes better known as collectively as the Dudley Boyz and Team 3D. After managing to save up enough money, Lukas enrolled in the Team 3D Wrestling Academy.

SmackDown
Jacobs would debut at Extreme Rules attacking Daniel Riley following his loss to Trista Anderson in a tables match and would put Riley through an announce table, this was done to write Riley off as his contract had expired and he chose not to renew. Jacobs would make his in-ring debut as a villain on the June 8, 2012 episode of SmackDown suffering a loss to Aaron Eden. The following week on the June 15th, 2012 episode of SmackDown Jacobs got an upset victory over then World Heavyweight Champion – Chris Jericho. Moments later Jericho would lose the World Heavyweight Championship to Billy Cassidy in an impromptu match.

This would be the start of a push for Jacobs however Jacobs' attitude backstage management decided to not push him. On the July 6, 2012 episode of SmackDown Jacobs defeated Alexander Malakian. The following week on the July 13, 2012 episode of SmackDown Jacobs suffered his second loss in a match against Billy Cassidy. Shortly after this Jacobs would begin a mini-feud with Michael Noventa as on the July 20, 2012 episode of SmackDown Noventa would defeat Jacobs with the help of Tiffany who handed Noventa brass knuckles to which he drilled Jacobs in the skull with to get the victory. The following week Jacobs was given the week off however he still appeared on SmackDown saying he wanted revenge against Noventa and that he needed the use of brass knuckles in order to beat him this turned Jacobs into a Tweener.

On the August 3, 2012 episode of SmackDown Jacobs received his rematch against Noventa however he came up short. Shortly after this the idea for a feud between the two was dropped. On the August 10, 2012 episode of SmackDown Jacobs faced Adam Harris where both men would get counted out as they would brawl on the outside eventually needing to be broken up by officials. The following week on the August 17, 2012 episode of SmackDown Jacobs defeated Sean Buschski.

Florida Championship Wrestling – (2012–present)
In September, Jacobs was sent down to Florida Championship Wrestling for further development on his character.

Personal life


Jacobs was previously in a relationship with Shae Bauer. Lukas has been labeled as a bit of a shit talker backstage and is known to be arrogant backstage, much like his in-ring character. At one of the OVW shows he happened to be noticed by John Laurinaitis and after a few try out matches offered him a contract despite by his attitude.

Lukas is close friends with SmackDown diva and valet Airica Linn. Jacobs is currently in a relationship with model Madison Evans.

In wrestling
Finishing moves
 * Fade To Black (Superkick), sometimes used as a mid air counter – (2012–present)

Signature moves
 * Whiplash – (Inverted neckbreaker followed by a DDT)
 * HFT (Head Forced Trauma) – (Jumping reverse bulldog)
 * Paralyzer – (Double knee backbreaker)
 * Side slam backbreaker
 * Double knee gutbuster
 * Sit-out shoulder jawbreaker
 * Running knee smash to a seated opponent
 * Complete shot
 * Discus clothesline
 * Standing dropkick
 * Swinging sidewalk slam
 * Double A Spinebuster

Nicknames
 * The Hybrid
 * The Diamond in the Rough
 * The Hollywood Bad Boy

Entrance themes
 * "Faint" by Linkin Park

Championships and accomplishments

 * Ohio Valley Wrestling
 * OVW Television Championship (1 time)
 * World Wrestling Entertainment: E-Fed
 * None Yet