 At MCW's debut show, his match against "Irish Ironman" Shane Shamrock for the MCW Light Heavyweight Championship, also involving Christian York, Joey Matthews, Quinn Nash, and Earl the Pearl and ending with his tapping out to Shamrock's "Irish cloverleaf" submission hold, was voted by fans as "Match of the Year".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.Beginning in 1977, the 10-year-old Shrader began competing in amateur wrestling, an activity he would continue up until his teenage years as a champion high school wrestler.