Mark Jindrak

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Mark Jindrak


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Mark Jindrak Mark Millium Marco Corleone Sodom
Billed height	6 ft 7 in (201 cm)
Billed weight	305lb (137 kg)
Born	June 26, 1977 (1977-06-26) (age 30) Auburn, New York
Resides	Phoenix, Arizona
Billed from	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) as Mark Jindrak; he is currently working for Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Marco Corleone. Mark was also on the Keuka (NY) College Basketball team and at one time boasted the highest vertical leap in WWE.

1 Career
2 Personal life
3 In wrestling
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 Notes and references
6 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] World Championship Wrestling

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 formed 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 splitting in early January of 2001 when Jindrak would begin teaming with Stasiak instead. The team was short lived, as Stasiak went on to pick up the managerial service of Stacy Keibler and Jindrak disappeared.

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment

After the World Wrestling Federation purchased WCW in March 2001, Mark Jindrak came into the company in July 2001 as 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 OVW) for training. He made a few appearances on Sunday Night Heat in late 2002, defeating wrestlers such as Justin Credible, Raven, Mike Owens, and Stevie Richards . 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 feuded with teams the like of La Resistance, Evolution, and The Dudley Boyz. The team 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 Theodore Long as a manager for a brief period until the pair split in July 2004 when Long turned face and became 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 Big Show bald during the fifth Anniversary episode of 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.

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. Jindrak only had one match with the Raw brand, where Rene Dupree forced him to submit to a Cobra Clutch. Jindrak was released shortly thereafter on July 5, 2005.

[edit] Japan

Jindrak toured New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2006, where he was primarily used as a low-carder. However, Jindrak did pick 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).

[edit] Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

Since late 2006, Mark Jindrak has been working for the Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the name Marco Corleone, having an Italian gimmick.

[edit] Personal life

Mark has a son named Marcus. ^[1]

[edit] In wrestling

Finishing and signature moves

Mark of Excellence (Back suplex side slam) - WCW / WWE
Air Corleone (Corleone runs down the entrance ramp, leaps into the ring over the top ropes and hits a suicide crossbody to the opponent) - CMLL
Left hook knock-out punch
Vertical suplex dropped into an implant DDT
Standing high angle dropkick
Springboard flying clothesline
Double underhook powerbomb
Belly to back superplex
Superkick

With Garrison Cade

Straight-Shooter (Cade lifts the opponent into a bearhug, followed by Jindrak delivering a dropkick to the opponent, setting up a spinebuster by Cade)