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.
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.
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.
[9] He 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.
A year later, he won the title a second time from The Cat Burglar before dropping it to Dino Casanova on March 17, 1996; among the opponents he face during his second reign included Chad Austin.
[13][15] On June 7, 1996, he defeated Quinn Nash (substituting for Earl the Pearl) in a championship tournament to become the first light heavyweight champion for Cueball Carmichael's Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance[9] in Alexandria, Virginia.
Shortly after winning the belts, the two returned to Baltimore for successful title defenses against The Bad Crew[19] and The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher)[13][20] in April, and Julio Sanchez & "Hollywood" Bobby Starr in June.
Schrader quickly returned to Allentown where he regained the belts with another partner, Corporal Punishment,[23] but lost the titles back to Corino and Cicero in Baltimore on August 10, 1997.
[11][12][13] Other opponents he would face during the year included Ace Darling,[27][28] and Christian York, the latter taking place in IPWA[29][30] and Doug Flex's International Pro Wrestling.
[31] That same year, 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;[32] McDevitt had originally gone to then MEWF booker Axl Rotten proposing a partnership in the new venture, who declined the offer, before Shrader expressed interest and eventually formed Sharkorp Inc. as a parent company for their business venture.
Shrader himself was the main trainer for ECWA Super 8 Tournament winner Aden Chambers[36][37] as well as having worked with independent wrestlers Dustin Tarr[38] and Rob Noxious.
He also wrestled a 6-man tag team match with Al Phillips and Brian Knighton against WWF Intercontinental Champion Rocky Maivia and the Nation of Domination (Mark Henry and D-Lo Brown) at Philadelphia's Corestates Center three months later.
[51][52][53] In the spring of 1998, Shrader and Dan McDevitt opted to leave the MEWF following unresolved creative control and salary disagreements with then owners Dennis Wippercht and Tim "Lucifer" Burke.
The show's success broke the longstanding monopoly over Maryland pro wrestling by the MEWF and would eventually lead to MCW becoming the top promotion in the region.
His match was a six-way dance also involving Christian York, Joey Matthews, Quinn Nash, and Earl the Pearl to decide the first MCW Light Heavyweight Champion.
[53][74][75] The two rivals were forced to team with each other for over three months until a match was set up in Newport on July 30, where Schrader and his new partner Thunder defeated York and Matthews to become the undisputed champions.
He made another appearance the following year to help his former tag team partner who was being attacked by Brute Force (Viper, Carnage, Stud, and Ground Zero) after taking them on in a handicap match.
[79][80] At the FWA's "Ultimate Jeopardy" supercard, he and Gregory Martin (as the "Fin Twins" with manager Gabriella Leigh) participated in four-way tag-team elimination match with The Sex Idols (Tommy Idol & Qeenan Creed), The Family of Freaks (Adam Flash & Danny Rose), and The Intimidators (Mark Mest & Maxx Crimson) to crown the first-ever FWA tag team champions.
[87] In Atlantic Terror Championship Wrestling, the Fin Twins (Mark Shrader & Gregory Martin) faced Dino Divine & Chad Austin on December 8, 2000, in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
[89] MCW held its final show, "The Last Dance: Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup", on July 16, 2003 at Michael's Eighth Avenue ballroom,[90] with over 1,000 fans in attendance.
On April 8, 2006, at the 10th Annual Super 8 Tournament, Shrader was among the former participants honored at the event including Ace Darling, Simon Diamond, Christopher Daniels, Low Ki, Donovan Morgan, Petey Williams, Cheetah Master, Devon Storm, Jayson Reign, R. J.