Oliver Sauter (born May 9, 1995) is a Swiss professional wrestler signed to

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, where he performs on the NXT

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under the

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Oro Mensah.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (2012–2019)

Sauter wrestled his first match on 12 May 2012 at Swiss Championship Wrestling under the ring name Mr. Exotic Erotic and lost to Belthazar. On 27 October, he teamed with Cash Crash to win the SCW Tag Team Championship, defeating Bad Snake & Magic Sly. The reign lasted until 28 September 2013, when they lost the titles to Pancho & Sancho. He began competing for New European Championship Wrestling in early 2014, where he defeated former tag team partner Cash Crash on 1 February 2014. During the year, he still fought for Swiss Wrestling Entertainment and Classic Wrestling Entertainment. Over time he fought for various other independent promotions, including

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, Rising Sun Wrestling, Frontier Championship Wrestling, German Hurricane Wrestling and

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, winning various titles.

WWE (2019–present)

On 19 April 2019, Carter made his

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debut in a dark match, which he lost to Kassius Ohno. He was utilized as a jobber until 16 November where he ended his losing streak. He teamed with Ashton Smith to defeat The Outliers (Dorian Mak and Riddick Moss). He returned to the brand on 17 January 2020, where he teamed with Smith to defeat

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(Lewis Howley and Sam Stoker). On 7 March, he participated in a battle royal to determine the next challenger for the NXT UK Championship, but failed to win the match. On the 2 June 2022 episode of ''NXT UK'', Carter and Smith won the NXT UK Tag Team Championship by defeating previous champions Moustache Mountain (

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and

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) and Die Familie ( Teoman and Rohan Raja) in a

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. On the 23 June episode of ''NXT UK'', Carter and Smith were set to defend their titles against

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's Josh Briggs and Brooks Jensen, but Smith suffered a knee injury and had to vacate them. On the September 13, 2022 episode of ''NXT'', a video package was shown to reintroduce Carter under the ring name of Oro Mensah, with his debut announced for the following week's episode. In his debut match, Mensah defeated

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to qualify for the

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at Halloween Havoc. At the event on October 22,

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won the match. On the November 4 episode of ''

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'', Mensah defeated

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Championships and accomplishments

*Championship Of Wrestling **cOw Interstate Championship (1 time) **cOw Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *

**GWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Senza Volto *German Hurricane Wrestling **GHW Zero Gravity Cup Championship (1 time) *New European Championship Wrestling **New World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *Swiss Championship Wrestling **SCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Cash Crash *Swiss Wrestling Entertainment **SWE Championship (1 time) *

** NXT UK Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Ashton Smith

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Oliver 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Zürich Swiss male professional wrestlers Swiss people of Ghanaian descent 21st-century professional wrestlers NXT UK Tag Team Champions