Andy Leavine

Early life Leavine initially attended Central High School, but transferred to Springstead High School in November 2005 for the remainder of his senior year. Leavine was a two-sport athlete in high school, participating in scholastic wrestling and playing American football. Prior to transferring to Sprigstead, Leavine was the captain of the Central High School football team.

Leavine then attended Florida International University (FIU) on a scholarship, where he continued to play football as an offensive lineman. He started all 12 FIU football games in his freshman year. During his junior year, Leavine suffered an early season injury, but returned to the team as the left guard.

In April of that year, he was invited to rookie minicamp on a tryout basis with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. Leavine has stated that he was misled by the Dolphins, and left the team soon after signing. Following this, he considered joining the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and playing in either the Arena Football League or the Canadian Football League, but decided against it for financial reasons. Leavine was not regarded as one of the front runners at the beginning of the show but ended strongly and made it to the final two with Luke Robinson. He was announced as the winner of Tough Enough on the June 6 episode of Raw by Stone Cold Steve Austin who gave him a Stone Cold Stunner after being slapped by Vince McMahon, as a welcoming gift from the WWE. Leavine also appeared on Raw the following week, on June 13, in a backstage segment with Austin and CM Punk. He then returned to FCW. In April 2012, Leavine was released from WWE.

After his release, Leavine started working for World Wrestling Council (WWC), a wrestling territory in Puerto Rico owned by Carlos Colon. On September 8, 2012, Leavine defeated Apolo and Gilbert in a three-way match to win the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship. On October 26, 2012, he competed against Wes Brisco and Ray Fénix in a winning effort in a non-title match. He wrestled a Loser Leaves WWC Match against Wes Brisco to a no-contest after Ray González interfered and attacked both of them at the same time. The following week, he lost to Brisco in an Anything Goes Loser Leaves WWC Match, which caused him to be kayfabe fired.

On April 27, 2013, Leavine and Samson Walker defeated Thunder & Lighting, winning the WWC Tag Team Championship. On June 29, 2013, at Summer Madness, Samson and Leavine lost the Tag Team titles to The Sons of Samoa (L.A. Smooth and Afa Jr.). At WWC 40 Aniversario, Leavine defeated Walker. Leavine retired from professional wrestling in 2014.

Personal life Leavine is a cousin of Dan Spivey. Leavine has practiced both jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts since his time attending FIU. He was married and has two children.

Championships and accomplishments World Wrestling Council WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 time) WWC World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Samson Walker WWE Tough Enough V