He trained briefly with Red Lightning, Kid Fite, and Drew Galloway at British Championship Wrestling.

[6] After years of wrestling sporadically and performing as lead singer of Scottish metalcore band Prezident Prime, Grado returned to training at SWA, this time with new head trainer Big Damo.

He made a Facebook video to sell tickets for a Scottish Wrestling Alliance show next to his home town, leading to a promo feud with Jackie Polo which included his first time dancing along to Madonna "Like a Prayer".

These videos and promos became popular and Mark Dallas from Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) hatched the "Get Grado Booked" campaign.

During this time, Grado was the subject of a Vice documentary, The British Wrestler, which saw his popularity rise with American stars like Sonjay Dutt voicing their support.

[8][9] Grado and Cabana are known as Irn Jew[10] and on the last night of the tour they lost their Tag Team Championships to The New Age Kliq.

[9] On 15 November 2015 Fear & Loathing VIII Grado defeated Drew Galloway to win the ICW World Heavyweight Championship at the SECC.

[15][16][17] On 16 April 2017 At Barramania III Grado turned heel for the first time in his career by attacking his longtime friend Sha Samuels and aligning himself with Red Lightning.

[2] Grado held the title for 511 days, retaining against Andy Wild, Noam Dar, Liam Thomson and Joey Hayes.

At WrestleZone's Aberdeen Anarchy event at the Beach Ballroom in May 2014 in front of a sold out 1,200 crowd, Grado defeated childhood hero Scotty 2 Hotty.

[21][22] In 2014, Grado appeared on the second season of TNA British Boot Camp in an ongoing feud with judge Al Snow.

Grado fought for the TNA X Division Championship in a losing effort against Low Ki and Tigre Uno.

During October and November (taped in July), Grado went on to participate in the new TNA World Title Series tournament, where he was placed fourth of his block in Team UK.

[26] During TNA's Maximum Impact tour of the UK, Grado would make an appearance as a masked wrestler under the guise of Odarg the Great, tagging with Mahabali Shera against Eli Drake and Jessie Godderz.

[29] Two weeks later, when he started talking to Mahabali Shera about his comeback party, both men were, with no clear reason, brutally attacked by Al Snow.

On the 24 May episode of Impact Wrestling Grado had a street fight with Snow with Shera at ringside, which he went on to lose after interference by two unknown men.

On 28 June edition of Impact Wrestling, Grado, Mahabali Shera and Tyrus defeated Al Snow and The Tribunal.

[31] On 4 August edition of Impact Wrestling, Grado and Mahabali Shera defeated Al Snow and The Tribunal in a handicap match.

[34] Grado made his return to Global Force Wrestling on the 13 July 2017, where he asked Joseph Park for help because if he does not marry a United States citizen in order to avoid deportation he will be deported from the United States, so asked Laurel Van Ness on a date which was interrupted by Kongo Kong but answered yes to Grado at the backstage interview and dated Laurel Van Ness the following week.

[36] In May 2018 Grado resumed his association with World of Sport Wrestling in the UK and was part of the TV tapings in Norwich held between 10–12 May 2018.

He joined forces with Paul Wight and Anthony Ogogo to fend off Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, Jay Lethal, and Sonjay Dutt.

[44][45] He later starred as Brian Doyle / Buster on the BBC Scotland Scottish soap opera River City.

supporter, Grado appeared as a special guest in The Legends Return match at Ibrox Stadium along with fellow River City actors Jordan Young and Stephen Purdon.