Karl Anderson

Karl Anderson (real name Chad Allegra) turned tag-team wrestling into a career-defining art form across three continents. Born January 20, 1980, in the US, he is a professional wrestler known for his tenures in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, WWE, and Impact Wrestling. Anderson holds the IWGP Tag Team Championship record for longest reign and most defenses, achieved on his first reign with partner Giant Bernard. He and Bernard also captured Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Tag Team Championship and were voted tag team of the year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter in 2011. As a founding member and mouthpiece of the Bullet Club stable, Anderson won NJPW's G1/World Tag League three times—in 2009 with Bernard, 2012 with Hirooki Goto, and 2013 with Doc Gallows. He wrestled for Southern California independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla between 2007 and 2009. Anderson signed with WWE in 2016 alongside Gallows, A.J. Styles, and Shinsuke Nakamura, winning the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship twice during his first run. Released by WWE in April 2020, he signed with Impact Wrestling three months later, becoming a three-time Impact World Tag Team Champion before his contracts expired in 2022. That same year, Anderson won NJPW's NEVER Openweight Championship, and while still champion, he and Gallows returned to WWE in October 2022. At Wrestle Kingdom 17 on January 4, 2023, Anderson became the first WWE-contracted wrestler to perform at NJPW's flagship event, where he lost the title. An Aquarius born January 20, his life-path number is 3, reflecting natural ability in creative collaboration and team dynamics [birth fact, enrichments].