Mark Chapman

Mark Anthony Chapman - billed as "The Renegade" Mark Chapman - is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist currently contracted by Global Extreme Wrestling, where he is the reigning Extreme Chaos champion and one half of the World Tag-Team Champions, and RISE wrestling, where he is currently undefeated.

Growing Up
Born and raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mark Chapman took an interest in martial arts at a young age. He loved to fight. While his cousin, who was more like a brother as they were growing up - Kameron Chase McGrath - was busy trying to reach what most described as a pipe dream, striving to be a professional wrestler, Mark was in and out of gyms and dojo's around the state, training in the arts of Judo, Tae Kwon Do and the Shukokai and Shotokan karate styles.

The death of his older sister - Erica - who took her own life when he was sixteen years of age sent him slightly off-track from his studies before he realised that she'd wanted nothing more than for him to succeed in the path he chose to follow and wouldn't want him to give up his dream and passion now she was no longer with him. He took up freestyle kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the age of eighteen and made it his goal to compete at a professional level in mixed martial arts.

After having little success in his quest to make it into the big leagues of the MMA scene, Mark opted for a different route and began training as a professional wrestler under the tuition of Kameron's old trainer - Troy Ward - in Pittsburgh.