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Mark Shrader (born September 9, 1967〔〔) 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. Among these included Atlantic Terror Championship Wrestling, the Future Wrestling Alliance, East Coast Wrestling Association, Cueball Carmichael's Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance, Doug Flex's International Pro Wrestling, and the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation. Shrader also briefly appeared as a preliminary wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation. A popular light heavyweight on the Mid-Atlantic and East Coast "indy circuit", he won several regional championship titles and was also a participant in the 1998 ECWA Super 8 Tournament.〔"The PWI 500." ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated''. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: London Publishing Company. (Holiday 1998): pg. 62.〕 In addition, he is a former MEWF Heavyweight Champion, a two-time MEWF Light Heavyweight Champion, and MEWF Tag Team Champion with Devon Storm and Corporal Punishment. He also 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. In 1998, Shrader and then partner Dan McDevitt established Maryland Championship Wrestling which became the top wrestling promotion in the state of Maryland, and one of the most popular independent organizations in the United States, until its close in 2003. The two also operated a wrestling school, the "Bone Breakers Pro Wrestling Training Center", in Halethorpe, Maryland which trained WWE's Lita, Mickie James, Orlando Jordan and Florida Championship Wrestling star Calvin Raines. At MCW's debut show, his match against "Irish Ironman" Shane Shamrock for the MCW Light Heavyweight Championship, also involving Christian York, Joey Matthews, Quinn Nash, and Earl the Pearl and ending with his tapping out to Shamrock's "Irish cloverleaf" submission hold, was voted by fans as "Match of the Year". ==Early life== Born on September 9, 1967, Mark Shrader was adopted by a foster family shortly after his birth and grew up in the Edmondson Heights neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Beginning in 1977, the 10-year-old Shrader began competing in amateur wrestling, an activity he would continue up until his teenage years as a champion high school wrestler. In junior high he served as treasurer of the student council and later, while attending Woodlawn High School, became president of the local church youth group. After his graduation from Woodlawn High in 1985, he began working for a pest control company. He 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. In 1990, Shrader lost his job as an exterminator. Unable to find work in Ocean City, he spent the summer "pool hustling" before moving back to Baltimore and was hired by Chi-Chi's restaurant. A year later, he traveled to Key West, Florida. He 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. It was around this time that Shrader became interested in becoming a professional wrestler. He found a wrestling school, where he was trained by Duane Gill, and made his pro debut on June 22, 1993.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Shrader」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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