[4][5][6][7][8][9] He became an amateur wrestler when he was 18 and shortly won the City of Sydney, New South Wales State and Australian Championships and competed in Olympic game trials[7][10] then gained his initial professional wrestling training at the Malenko's Wrestling School in Florida in 1992.
[11][12] In 1993 he worked on WCW Saturday Night and WCW WorldWide and wrestled Rick Rude on WCW Television[11][13] Programs he also performed on WCW Monday Nitro and wrestled Rick Martel in front of 30,000 fans at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
[11][3] Mercedes performed in dark matches on the 2000 WCW Australian Tour.
[3][12][10] Mercedes wrestled for Catch Wrestling Association on a seven-month tour in 1997[3][10][14] In 1993 Mercedes was on the New Zealand Grand Prix National Wrestling Tour[15] and he appeared on a worldwide pay-per-view event WWA: The Reckoning and lost to Rick Steiner.
[11][16][17] He went on tour with Muga World Pro Wrestling now known as Dradition Pro-Wrestling in 2006 and 2007[18][19]