Justin Gabriel

Justin Gabriel is the best-known ring name of Phillip Paul Lloyd, a South African professional wrestler born on 3 March 1981. He was trained by his father, a wrestler and promoter in South Africa, and made his debut at sixteen under the name P. J. Black, forming a regular tag team with Ray Leppan called Pure Juice. After five years in the United Kingdom he returned to South Africa and became the first champion of the World Wrestling Professionals Cruiserweight Championship in November 2007. In 2008 he signed a developmental contract with WWE, the first South African to do so, won the Florida Heavyweight Championship, and finished third in the first season of NXT in 2010. He then joined The Nexus and later the Corre, and with Heath Slater held the WWE Tag Team Championship three times in 2010 and 2011.