Michael Hutter

Michael Hutter is an American professional wrestler and promoter better known by the ring name Ethan Carter III or simply EC3 EC3 is a founder of Control Your Narrative CYN He also performs on the independent circuit He is best known for his tenures with Impact Wrestling and WWE where he performed both under his EC3 ring name and earlier as Derrick Bateman Hutter began his professional wrestling career in 2002 and began wrestling for the Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW promotion in 2007 In 2009 he signed a contract with WWE where he competed as Derrick Bateman He was assigned to WWEs developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling FCW where he won the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship with Johnny Curtis Also he competed in the fourth and fifth seasons of NXT a program where rookies were with Pros He left WWE in May 2013 and then signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA He worked with the promotion as Ethan Carter III the storyline nephew of TNAs legit owner Dixie Carter He won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice and the Impact Grand Championship once He returned to WWE in January 2018 competing in NXT before making his main roster debut in early 2019 where he held the WWE 247 Championship four times His second tenure with WWE ended in April 2020