Sonjay Dutt

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Retesh Bhalla
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Sonjay Dutt Monster J
Billed height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Billed weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Born	April 7, 1982 (1982-04-07) (age 26) Washington, D.C.
Billed from	Bombay, India Bollywood, Bombay
Trained by	Larry Sharpe
Debut	September 2000

Retesh Bhalla (born April 7, 1982 in Washington, D.C.), better known by his ring name, Sonjay Dutt, is an Indian American professional wrestler, currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is also known for his time with Combat Zone Wrestling, Major League Wrestling, and other various independent promotions. His stage name is modeled after that of famous Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Dutt's parents moved to United States of America from India before he was born, though most of his extended family still lives in New Delhi. Dutt graduated from the KYDA Pro Wrestling training school in northern Virginia. He perfected his craft inside the squared circle at KYDA Pro wrestling for the first two years of his professional career.^[1]

[edit] Major League Wrestling (2003-2004)

Dutt got his first break wrestling in Major League Wrestling in 2003 where he debuted the Dragon Rana on Jimmy Yang at the promotion's August 3 event titled "Summer Apocalypse". Dutt would go on to win an international tournament, hosted by MLW in September 2003 to win the company's Junior Heavyweight Championship. Dutt defeated Tony Mamaluke, Eddie Colon and Christopher Daniels to take the tourney. In an early 2004 MLW Junior Heavyweight Title Match, Dutt pinned Jack Evans to retain the title at "MLW Reloaded".

[edit] Sonjay around the world (2004-Current)

Since then, he has worked for independent promotions such as Ring of Honor, UWA, Combat Zone Wrestling, NWA Virginia and has toured Japan with Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX. He also has wrestled for HUSTLE in Japan as Monster J. On July 28, 2006, Sonjay Dutt lost to Último Dragón in UWA Hardcore Wrestling. In November 2006, Sonjay returned to UWA and won the 2006 Grand Prix Tournament Championship.

On May 9, 2008 Sonjay Dutt was announced as the 8th and final participant in the Chikara Rey de Voladores 2008 tournament, having previously competed in the 2007 King of Trios alongside Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin as Team TNA.

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004-Current)

Dutt began working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on a regular basis in 2004. Sonjay began to be noticed after he participated in the America's X-Cup as apart of Team USA along with Jerry Lynn, Chris Sabin and Elix Skipper against Team AAA (Hector Garza, Mr. Águila, Juventud Guerrera and Abismo Negro). After several months, Dutt became the onscreen protégé of Sabu, with Raven using him to vicariously assault Sabu. In addition, Dutt acted as a mouthpiece for the perpetually mute Sabu. This angle was postponed and then dropped after Sabu was sidelined with various health problems, and in the interim Dutt made appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment, provoking rumors of an imminent contract offer.

Dutt's presence in TNA was reduced in late-2004 and early-2005 during the tenure of Dusty Rhodes as booker, but his role within the promotion was once again expanded after Rhodes resigned as booker. Dutt won a four-way X Division match at No Surrender 2005 on July 17, 2005, thus qualifying for the 2005 Super X Cup, but lost to Samoa Joe in the first round of the tournament.

In September 2005, Dutt, Shark Boy and Simon Diamond spent two weeks in India, where they visited several cities, promoting the debut of Impact! on ESPN Star Sports. On September 28 in Bhopal, a riot broke out when 1000 fans were excluded from an event after attendance exceeded expectations. None of the three TNA wrestlers were injured.

At Bound For Glory on October 23, Dutt defeated Austin Aries, Roderick Strong and Alex Shelley in a four way X Division match on the preshow.

In 2006, Dutt earned a spot on Team USA in the 2006 World X-Cup.

Throughout late 2006, early 2007, Sonjay Dutt was involved in the Paparazzi Championship Series, lead by Kevin Nash, who insinuated throughout the PCS Challenge that Dutt was taking steroids, as a running joke, which would usually lead to the hotheaded Dutt comically losing his temper. Although he didn't win the series (Alex Shelley did), it put him over with the fans. After PCS ended Kevin Nash took Dutt and his new found tag team partner Jay Lethal under his wing and promised to give them an extreme makeover.

After Lethal got a new character mimicking the "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Kevin Nash attempted to get Sonjay a new character as well. All of these attempts were Kevin Nash's past gimmicks, including Oz, Vinnie Vegas, and Diesel, all of which Sonjay despised.

On the April 26 episode of Impact!, Dutt and Lethal won a shot at the X Division Championship held by Chris Sabin at Sacrifice. However, Dutt was unhappy at Lethal getting the pinfall.

After their loss to Chris Sabin, both Dutt and Lethal started brawling until Kevin Nash came out and separated the two. Dutt kicked Nash and stormed out of the ring visibly upset, but on a later episode of Impact!, Dutt said sorry to Nash and claims "it was the heat of the moment". Nash forgave Dutt but warned him not to do it again.

On June 7, Dutt introduced a new gimmick reminiscent of a Zen Buddhist in which he apologized to Nash and Lethal for his behavior, and dressed in all white with a positive attitude, as well as calling himself "The Guru" Sonjay Dutt. At Victory Road Dutt competed in the 10 man Ultimate X match to become the number one contender for the TNA X Division Championship. However, he was eliminated in the Gauntlet portion of the match. He still serves as a friend and Guru to Jay Lethal. Recently, the two of them have been having some differences as Dutt has shown interest in SoCal Val who currently has an on-screen romance with Lethal. Dutt participated in the Xscape match at Lockdown where he was the first participant eliminated. At Slammiversary Sonjay ruined the kayfabe wedding of Jay Lethal and SoCal Val when Dutt begged Val to marry him instead and Dutt and Lethal got into an argument. After that Dutt blindsiding Lethal by attacking him thus turning him heel in the process. He will be competing in TNA's World X Cup as apart of Team USA/TNA

[edit] In wrestling

Finishing and signature moves

Hindu Press (Corkscrew 450° splash)
450° splash
Sonjay Cutter (Sitout standing shiranui)
Sherrer kick (DDT)
Camel clutch
Running standing shooting star press
Bombay Blast (Springboard Dragonrana)
Bombay Buster (Suplex slam twisted and dropped into a facebreaker knee smash)
Bombay Boom (Tiger feint kick)
Calcutta Cutter (Facebreaker DDT followed by an inverted facelock neckbreaker)
Indian Summer (Elevated cradle neckbreaker)
Sprinkler Elbow (Arm twist ropewalk elbow and leg drop)
Moonsault double foot stomp
Tilt-a-whirl tornado DDT
Hurricanrana
Half nelson bulldog
Inverted suplex stunner
Brainbuster
Asai Moonsault
Moonsault
Front Dropkick

Nicknames

The Mamu (TNA)
The American Monkey
The Guru (TNA)
The Original Playa from the Himalaya

Managers
- Kevin Nash

Entrance Themes
- Addictive by Truth Hurts
- Beware Of The Boys (Remix) by Panjabi MC & Jay Z

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

KYDA Pro Wrestling
- KYDA Pro Mid-Atlantic Champion (2 times)

Combat Zone Wrestling
- CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- CZW Best of the Best 4 winner

CyberSpace Wrestling Federation
- CSWF Cruiser X Championship (1 time)
- CSWF Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Ruckus (1) and Prince Nana (1)