29 Facts About Mark Shrader

Mark Shrader was born on September 9,1967 and is a retired American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter who competed in numerous independent promotions throughout the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Mark Shrader formed notable tag teams with a number of independent stars on the East Coast including The Darkside Rebel, Cueball Carmichael, Glenn Osbourne, Boo Bradley, Joey Matthews, Mike Quackenbush, Christian York, and Reckless Youth.

Mark Shrader attended Catonsville Community College, studying to be an interpreter for the hearing impaired, and was later a photo editor for the college newspaper; it was in this position, according to Shrader, that he was nearly expelled from the school for photographs he had taken of Joan Jett.

Mark Shrader returned to Ocean City the following summer, where he continued hustling pool, and then returned to Baltimore again to work for a new exterminator company as a service manager.

Mark Shrader found a wrestling school, where he was trained by Duane Gill, and made his pro debut on June 22,1993.

Mark Shrader spent his rookie year wrestling on the indy circuit for various promotions in the Mid-Atlantic region under the name "Joe College".

One month later, Mark Shrader teamed with Watsumi the Rising Sun and Chad Austin in a 6-man elimination tag team match against the American Ninja, Johnny Paradise and The Comet at Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland; though he and Watsumi were eliminated from the contest, their team won the match when Austin ended up as the sole survivor.

In 1994, Mark Shrader started wrestling for the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation.

Mark Shrader won his first major singles title later that year defeating Shane Shamrock to win the vacant MEWF Light Heavyweight Championship in Catonsville on November 11,1994.

At the MEWF's "Winter Wars" supercard, Mark Shrader wrestled Chris Candido.

Mark Shrader won back the IPWA Light Heavyweight Championship from Earl the Pearl, Shrader having previously surrendered the belt after his MEWF Heavyweight victory, and held it for five months until his defeat by Julio Sanchez in Lenoir, North Carolina on March 22,1997.

That same year, Mark Shrader partnered with fellow MEWF wrestler Corporal Punishment to start Maryland's first permanent wrestling school, the "Bone Breakers Pro Wrestling Training Center", in Halethorpe, Maryland; McDevitt had originally gone to then MEWF booker Axl Rotten proposing a partnership in the new venture, who declined the offer, before Mark Shrader expressed interest and eventually formed Sharkorp Inc as a parent company for their business venture.

Mark Shrader himself was the main trainer for ECWA Super 8 Tournament winner Aden Chambers as well as having worked with independent wrestlers Dustin Tarr and Rob Noxious.

Mark Shrader feuded with two of his students, Gregory Martin and Qeenan Creed, eventually forming a tag team called The Fin Twins with the former.

Mark Shrader wrestled on the World Wrestling Federation's Shotgun Saturday Night during the spring of 1998.

Mark Shrader wrestled a 6-man tag team match with Al Phillips and Brian Knighton against WWF Intercontinental Champion Rocky Maivia and the Nation of Domination at Philadelphia's Corestates Center three months later.

Mark Shrader began touring the Delaware-based East Coast Wrestling Association.

Mark Shrader's match was a six-way dance involving Christian York, Joey Matthews, Quinn Nash, and Earl the Pearl to decide the first MCW Light Heavyweight Champion.

Mark Shrader was among those who later participated in the Shane Shamrock Memorial Show, a month after his loss to Shamrock, where he wrestled Romeo Valentino.

That summer, Mark Shrader took part in a special six-man tag match with Dino Devine and Cueball Carmichael.

Mark Shrader was able to pin Gillberg with the help of outside interference by Carmichael.

On May 16,1999, Mark Shrader challenged the Owings Mills wrestling team, specifically its head coach Guy Pritzker and assistant Justin Ott, to a wrestling match later that evening.

Mark Shrader has appeared at Owings High during the school season the feud was cut short when he lost a "loser-leaves-MCW" match.

Mark Shrader returned to the ECWA where he won the ECWA Tag Team Championship with Christian York on March 17,1999.

Mark Shrader made another appearance the following year to help his former tag team partner who was being attacked by Brute Force after taking them on in a handicap match.

Mark Shrader had a stint in the short-lived Future Wrestling Alliance wrestling Tommy Idol, Gregory Martin, and Qenaan Creed over the summer At least one of his bouts with Creed was later aired on the promotion's TV show.

In Mark Shrader's corner were "Ramblin'" Rick Myers and Gabriella Leigh and, prior to the match, Mark Shrader announced to the fans that Myers had agreed to be his fellow "Fin Twin" while his regular partner Gregory Martin was recovering from his injuries.

Mark Shrader did not join his partner in the MEWF instead leaving the industry to become a full-time bartender at Baltimore's Hard Rock Cafe.

Mark Shrader made an appearance for MCW's "Tribute to the Legends" in Dundalk, Maryland on September 10,2006, where he and Headbanger Mosh were honored by the promotion.