When Chad Allegra was smashing home runs for his high school team in Asheville, North Carolina, he could have no idea that he would end up putting down his bat and picking up a steel chair instead. He was not yet Karl Anderson, not yet a bruiser on the WWE stage.
As a teenager, Allegra excelled in anything athletic. But it was not sports where would make his name, but sports entertainment.
A longtime fan of pro wrestling, the Asheville native studied the mat game in Cincinnati before moving to Los Angeles and then to Japan. It was in The Land of the Rising Sun where he truly began to flourish, becoming one of New Japan Bleacher Report - Pro Wrestling
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