Mark Jindrak

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Mark Jindrak

Statistics
Ring name(s)	Mark Jindrak Mark Millium Marco Corleone Sodom
Billed height	6 ft 6 in (197 cm)
Billed weight	270 lb (122 kg)
Born	June 26, 1977 Auburn, New York
Resides	Atlanta, Georgia
Trained by	Paul Orndorff
Debut	1999

Mark Robert Jindrak (born June 26, 1977 in Auburn, New York) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and currently wrestling in Deep South Wrestling, LLC., although he isn't contracted to WWE.

1 Career
2 Wrestling facts
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 Personal information
5 External links

[edit] Career

Mark Jindrak trained in the WCW Power Plant under Paul Orndorff and was promoted to the main WCW roster in June 2000 under the Vince Russo era where he former a tag team with fellow Power Plant graduate Sean O'Haire.

In August 2000, Jindrak and Sean O'Haire helped form the Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders, Shawn Stasiak, Chuck Palumbo, Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli and Reno. They were briefly "coached" by Kevin Nash.

In September 2000, Jindrak won the WCW World Tag Team titles with O'Haire for the first time, despite being relatively new in the business. The pair would win WCW Tag team gold one more time before spliting in early January, 2001 when Jindrak would begin teaming with Stasiak instead.

In January 2001, The Natural Born thrillers broke up when, The team of Mark Jindrak and Shawn Stasiak would become jealous of Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire (who had gone on to win tag team gold) and would face them at WCW Superbrawl on February 18, 2001 for the tag team titles. Palumbo and O'Haire retained their titles, and Jindrak disappeared from TV.

After World Wrestling Federation purchased WCW in March 2001, Mark Jindrak came into the company in July 2001 as part of The Alliance, Jindrak was briefly part of The Alliance that invaded the WWF roster. In late August of that year Mark Jindrak was sent to the Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) then Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for training, in early 2003 Mark Jindrak joined Kenny Bolin's "Bolin Services" and teamed with Garrison Cade.

Mark Jindrak was soon called up by WWE in June 2003 and started out forming a tag team with Garrison Cade on the RAW brand, the team found little success on RAW and soon separated when Jindrak was drafted to SmackDown! on March 22, 2004.

He first appeared on SmackDown!'s sister show Velocity where he adopted a gimmick of an egotistical, narcissistic heel obsessed with his own physique (similar to Lex Luger), calling himself "The Reflection of Perfection" and standing in front of a mirror to admire himself. On April 8, 2004 he would gain a manager by the name of Theodore Long for a brief period until the pair split in July 2004 in which Long went on to become the general manager of SmackDown! and Mark Jindrak remained mostly on Velocity.

In September 2004 Mark Jindrak aligned himself with Kurt Angle and Luther Reigns, whom he helped take down and shave bald Big Show during the fifth Anniversary episode of the SmackDown!. After a teaming with Reigns for a while, the pair began to have a falling out, most notably after a "Double Jeopardy" handicap match on the February 24, 2005 episode of SmackDown! in Philadelphia against The Undertaker. This led to Jindrak turning face and delivering a few knock-out punches to Reigns, punches that would become signature moves.

After this, Jindrak defeated Luther Reigns in their short feud only to become a lower card star performing on WWE Velocity, and only appearing on SmackDown! to job for other wrestlers, portraying neither a heel or face character.

On June 30, 2005, Mark Jindrak became one of the last minute trades in the 2005 WWE Draft, which saw him jump from SmackDown! back to RAW. Mark Jindrak was released five days later on July 5, 2005. The WWE cited decreased revenue and a lack of enthusiasm with respect to Jindrak's in-ring abilities as the cause of his release.

Jindrak toured New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2006, where he was primarily used as a low-carder. However, Jindrak did picked up a surprise win over long-time veteran Osamu Nishimura during the tour.

Mark Jindrak was also involved with fellow former WWE Superstar Matt Morgan. The pair appeared in a short-lived online reality show which was canceled in early 2006 for an unknown reason. Both men later showed up in Japanese promotion Hustle, wrestling as the tag team of Sodom (Jindrak) & Gomora (Morgan).

In late 2006, Jindrak would make appearances in Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, as Marco Corleone.