Chad Allegra, a former three-sport star at A.C. Reynolds High School near Asheville, has made it big as a professional wrestler � performing under the name Karl �Machine Gun� Anderson � and currently working steadily under contract in Toyko, Japan.

His mother is Raina Allegra of Fairview and his father is John Allegra of Myrtle Beach, S.C. He attended Fairview Elementary school and graduated in 1998 from Reynolds High, where he played baseball, football and basketball.

Allegra went to Mars Hill College from September 1998 through June 2000. He played baseball at Mars Hill. 

He moved to Cincinnati in August 2000, where he attended wrestling school. Allegra and his girlfriend Christine Bui live in Cincinnati with their two boys, Caedon, 2, and Cylus, 8 months.

He got the name Karl Anderson through his association with Anderson Brothers wrestling family of Minnesota. His machine-gun move triggered his nickname.

In 2012, he defeated multi-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura, arguably the biggest win of his career.