James Shark

James Shark (born July 5th 1988) is an American Professional Wrestler. James Shark is currently signed with the All Star Wrestling Federation, James made his debut to the sport in September 2009 and was scouted by the No Limit Wrestling Federation due to his exposure in Brooklyn New York with the street fights that he had competed in.

James Shark is a three time world champion with five championships in the sport of professional wrestling. He has appeared in Hollywood Films such as: Hard Time (2009) and Shark (2012). He has faced off against all sorts of respected names and has beaten most of them.

Other than his heavy hands and improved wrestling skills, James is mostly known for his loud mouth, and calls himself "Trash Talk Royalty" due to the amount of hype he is able to generate in a match with the talking he does. Make no mistake with Shark and his trash talking, most of the time, James Shark is able to back up every word.

Early Life
James Shark was born into a very rough child hood. His mother was a drug addict and due to her drug addiction, Jame's father abondoned both Shark and his mother, leaving Shark to be raised by his mother alone. With barely any money, James was unable to be enrolled into school. He was home schooled for a while by one of his mother's friends on the block that he lived in, however after his mother's drug addiction got worse, her mother began to lose friends and family members, as she did not want to be helped, and contact was lost between them.

Approixmately at the age of Six years old, James watched his mother die before his eyes due to a drug overdose. James ran away from home, and police were called due to neighbours being alarmed by the front door being open in the home for more then 24 hours. When police arrived they saw the body of Shark's mother, and later tracked James down and took him in.

The police officers tried their best to find a good home for James, but every family that took him in, just had problems with him, as he would just run off. After a while, James was hard to track down, and from that point on he lived on the streets. He was homeless and really had no childhood. In the streets, he had to be an adult, and really do his best to survive.

He learned some very hard lessons on the streets, he learned about trust, dangerous people, and how hard life truely is. At the age of 12, James began street fighting. He would fight men half his age, and men twice his age. Most of the time, James would get beat up, and almost beaten to death, but he learned from every single fight to better himself and get better.

By the age of 17, James was already a big name in street fighting. Jumping in and out with his speed, and storming in with brutal power. He had many videos on different sets of websites, and was already being hyped up at such an early age.

He began to get involved in some underground boxing, and some underground MMA. He perferred boxing more as he was so used to street fighting. When the fight hit the ground, they were stood up, when he got into underground MMA, most guys would take him down and mount him, something that he was not used to.

James was approached by a variety of different wrestling companies and MMA promoters but he was never interested in them. He wanted to get into the sport of boxing but most promoters did not believe he had enough skill and that his street fighting videos were overrated and overhyped.

No Limit Wrestling Federation (September - December 2009)
When James Shark was approached and scouted by the NLWF, he was hesitant at first. He didn't like wrestling at all and did not understand why people loved it. He was very outspoken about professional wrestling and said some very negative things about the sport in general. He liked "stand-up fighting" and thought that anything involving "ground work" was stupid.

The NLWF saw something in James and didn't give up, he was offered a very high paying three month contract that James couldn't help but sign. It was a contract that he couldn't believe, never was he ever paid this much before, or offered as much money as the NLWF was willing to pay him, so he had to jump up on the opportunity.

James made his debut on September 2009 backstage by knocking out not one, but two NLWF Stars including their champion, Aaron O'Shea.

Many did not like James because of his "cocky" persona, as well as the way he carried himself, as many believed, and still believed he acted like a "stereotype" and still does. Regardless of what they thought, week in and week out, James would continue to give the NLWF Fans and Wrestling fans a chance to hate him.

He was quickly moving up the rankings in the NLWF with back to back knockout victories and was becoming very hyped in the sport. He went from living in an apartment building, to a big house, and was becoming pretty wealthy.

James even began to date, very popular at the time model, Karly Zedic. Karly was very well known, and was on FHM's Top 100 Hottest Women's list. James Shark was truely living a life he never thought he could have.

Because of being so hyped and talked about, James was then put against tougher opponents, opponents with very good wrestling backgrounds, and as soon as the bell rang, his opponents did not waste anytime in taking James down, getting ontop of him, and outwrestling him to a pinfall or a submission.

This was the story of James Shark's NLWF Career. He would win against people who weren't good wrestlers, but the moment he took on someone who was even a "decent" wrestler, he would choke.

James Shark's hype began to slowly go down, but his confidence was always high. James Shark would later take on a big NLWF name in Demetrius Randall, in which many believed he would lose the match. Demetrius was riding a lot of hype, and was even starring in NLWF Films: Hard Time, this was Shark's match to lose, and many believed that James Shark was given this match, to just increase Demetrius's hype even more.

James Shark came into the match calling himself "the baddest negro on the planet" and told the world that Demetrius was a disgrace to black people. James did his usual trash talk, and altough Demetrius told the world he would do his talking in the ring, that wasn't done. It was James who pulled the upset and dominated Demetrius Randall. Demetrius was unable to take James Shark down to the ground, and many were impressed with the wrestling that was on display by James Shark. He kept the match standing and was able to knock Demetrius out.

Shortly after the match, Demetrius Randall was released from the NLWF, and he announced his retirement. He was also pulled out of the NLWF Film: Hard Time, and it was James Shark who stole his movie role. James Shark began to get his hype back, and many believed that he was now able to compete with wrestlers due to the fact that he was able to neutralize all of Demetrius's takedowns.

James Shark was drafted to Direct Hit a few weeks later, and with all the hype he was recieving he began to go out to parties and clubs. He was becoming very used to the life of being famous and liking everything about being a Star. Somewhere down the road, pictures were leaked online of James Shark partying in the club with a bunch of women. In most of the pictures, James was making out with the women, and would even be making out with two women at the same time.

Karly Zedic brokeup with him, and after the breakup, James continued to party. He was suspended by the NLWF after an incident in the club, that landed him in Jail with a charge of Sexual Harrassment on one of the strippers and Assault on one of the men in the club. James Shark pleaded not guilty to the Harrassment charge and pleaded "White boy desereved it" on the Assault charge.

James was bailed out of jail by the NLWF but was still kept under a two week suspension. When James Shark's suspension was lifted, he made his return to NLWF with more wins, and even became the #1 contender to the NLWF Junior Heavyweight Championship.

While he was suspended, a man named Nick Ridicule had made his debut into the NLWF, and was becoming very hyped. Nick was recieving the same amount of hype that James did when James made his debut, only the hype was growing stronger than any other superstar had in the company.

James was very outspoken when asked about Nick in interviews and even told the world that Nick Ridicule was overhyped and just a "desperate bitch craving attention". Nick Ridicule fired back and told the media that James was just describing himself. Nick Ridicule then went on to call James Shark out, and told James to put his #1 Contendership spot to the Junior Heavyweight title on the line.

Never shying away from a match or a fight, James Shark didn't hesitate to accept the challenge. The match was hyped up due to the hatred both men had for each other, but the match itself wasn't a close one. Nick Ridicule dominated Shark from the opening bell to the end of the match, and never gave Shark a chance. Nick Ridicule beat James in the wrestling aspect and the standing aspect of the match.

Nick then went on to win the Junior Heavyweight Championship. James did not show up on NLWF television for a few weeks after that match, and after a few days, it was announced that James Shark had quit the NLWF and retired from the sport of wrestling.

No Holds Wrestling (February - March 2009)
James Shark was back on cameras on Feburuary when he announced in an interview that he would be making a return to the sport of professional wrestling, but it would not be in the NLWF.

James also mentioned that he had improved a lot in his wrestling and that he was hungry and motivated to win a championship belt.

When he was asked about Nick Ridicule and NLWF, he told the media "Fuck Nick, Fuck NLWF, I'm better than those guys man"

James Shark made his return in the No Holds Wrestling promotion. A Wrestling promotion much smaller than the NLWF. The NHW still had a good talent pool of high level wrestlers and well respected men and women, and James Shark took that company by storm.

Although he was getting back to back wins and defeating the companies top guys, he still showed some trouble in the wrestling department. Altough James was able to stuff a few takedowns and get back up to his feet, he still showed some fusturation.

After a 6-0 Undefeated streak, James Shark earned a title shot for the NHW World Championship, but lost. Wrestling still proved to be a problem for James, and he couldn't deal with the wrestling of the champion. He lost the match. The match was however a close one, and a rematch was being built up, but before James could get the rematch for the title, the company closed down.

Life Without Professional Wrestling (2010)
James Shark took the rest of 2009 to take a break from Profesional Wrestling. He had hunger and motivation to still become a champion and be in the sport but at the same time, he didn't like the sport. When NHW closed down James was offered many contracts with other wrestling promotions but decided to just take a break to figure out other options for himself.

During his break, James was still involved around talk in the media due to his appearances in talk shows, magazines and his twitter wars with various wrestlers and fighters. The one thing that grabbed the most attention was James Shark's arrest in mid 2010 when a warrant was placed for James Shark's arrest due to a allegation against him for an assault on a secruity guard in a parking lot.

On the police report it was described that James Shark was approached by a few secruity guards outside of a club after he was instigating a fight between two intoxicated females. When he was approached and the altercation between the two females was beginning to end, James Shark allegedly struck the secruity guard in the face and took off. He was later tracked down in his hotel room for questioning and taking in by police.

James Shark was not convicted for assault but was charged with Public Mischief.

World Elite Wrestling, Total Impact Wrestling, Chaotic Championship Wrestling
Many won't forget about the time James Shark was competing in four companies all at the same time. After already making his return to the IWF and cleaning out the whole company with wins against literally everybody, James Shark signed up with CCW, a week later he signed up with WEW, then two weeks later it was TIW.

James Shark's CCW Career was short lived. With the company going in on a biweekly programming schedule, James Shark got one win, and one loss, before walking away from the company due to a dispute with management.

Shark's career in WEW was the longest out of the three. Only being in WEW for a month, James Shark had felt like he was there for a year. Wrestling four times a week, sometimes five days a week, every time he stepped into the ring, it felt like he had wrestled already that day.

Losing to a few WEW names, James Shark also made quite the impact in WEW. Although many will deny it, James Shark took the fight to their champion Slash, dominating him the whole match before getting distracted by the refferee and losing via roll up pin. He also defeated Twin K, and defeated one of their biggest name's in SM Raye, in what the commentators called "Upset of the Year 2011".

James also made a huge impact in TIW. In the debut of the company, the first show had a main event battle royal for the TIW Heavyweight Championship. The battle royal was open to everyone and many wrestling fans already had a good idea of who would appear in the battle royal based on superstars announcing their involvement. However James kept his involvement a secret.

Shark went into the battle royal, handing out many opponent's their first loss, before throwing Cody Taylor over the top rope and becoming TIW's first ever world champion.

Due to Shark's busy schedule, he could not be at 100% and lost a few matches that he believes he could have won if he was healthy. James Shark even had a boxing match with Germany's own Stefan Raab, in which resulted in a draw.

Insurgency Wrestling Federation (2011 - May 2012)
James Shark made his return to professional wrestling the following year in 2011. James was orginally set to make a return to NLWF after a high paying contract was offered to him, however when the NLWF shut down, it was the IWF that was formed and created by former NLWF Superstars who were tired of how they were being treated in the NLWF.

James Shark was happy to join the company as he saw it as "unfinished buisness", there were a lot of superstars and divas who believed he was still overrated as he was in 2009. He saw this as a great opportunity to not only show them, but the world, that he could win, and win at the highest level possible.

Shark made his debut against Chad Mason, a former NLWF Champion, and knocked Chad Mason out. It was an upset win that many believed Shark was going to lose. James then went on to qualify for the Full Throttle Championship Tournament, and ended up making it to the finals, and winning the title, becoming IWF's first ever Full Throttle Champion.

His title reign was a short one however. Jason Hawk surprised the world by appearing when everyone else thought he was dead. He came back to challenge Shark for the title, and ended up beating James for the title in a triple threat match for the championship. James was furious but vowed to get the title back around his waist. At the very next PPV, James was in another triple threat match for the title, but many fans noticed that James was hurt from the beginning of the match.

It was obvious that James had entered the match injured, and he lost his opportunity to regain the Full Throttle Title. After the match, he announced that he had came into the match injured.

James Shark then went on to take on top competition. He defeated Vincent Van Rose multiple times, Death Angel multiple times, and defeated other big names such as Chuck Matthews (retiring Chuck before Chuck chose to return) After back to back wins, James Shark was knocking on the door for a title shot over at the time champion, Dan Alexander.

However, before he could have the title match, it was Nick Ridicule who made his return to professional wrestling. James Shark was the first to challenge Nick. Nick Ridicule seemed better than ever before after he came off of a total destruction over Corey Casey, however James Shark got his revenge as he dominated Nick Ridicule, and signed autographs while doing it. Before the match ended, James knocked Nick out in the middle of the ring.

Being the first person to ever defeat Nick, knock him out, AND dominate him, there was no denying James Shark's title shot. He went on to face Dan Alexander, and defeated Dan, before taking him on once more for the title.

James Shark defeated Dan Alexander, becoming the IWF World Champion, however, just like his Full Throttle title, James could not defend the world title. He headlined IWF's biggest PPV by defending his title against Corey Casey and Brandon Macdonald, and lost the title to Corey Casey.

Once again injured, James Shark did not want to take time off and heal his injuries. Instead, he chose to compete. He took on one of NLWF's biggest names in Shadow Demon, and knocked Shadow Demon out cold, but was controlled by rhe legendary Frank Hart, forcing him to really take time off from the sport and take surgury to heal his injuries.

When James returned, he did it bigger than the first time. James defeated Stygian and Connor O'Shannon in a triple threat match, then took on Stygian for the High Impact Championship in a match of the year canidate. Although he came up short, he had knocked Stygian out for a matter of minutes but could not score the pinfall due to no refferee being in the ring.

James brushed off the loss, and went on to win the IWF Tag Team Championships only a few weeks later with Robbie Hart. A few weeks later, James went on to win the High Impact Championship in a triple threat match against his own partner, Robbie, and former teammate Ruben Ricardo Leon. James Shark then handed the title to Robbie Hart right after he got his hand raised.

Only a week later, James went on to retain the Tag Team Championships with Robbie AND win the IWF World title at the same day.

Unlike his history of not being able to defend his championships, James defended his championship against IWF Rising Star and New comer, "Sho No Mercy" in a match that SNM challenged James to, a match in an abondoned school. James defeated SNM in devastating fashion and also retired SNM from wrestling.

James Shark then went on to defend his title against a very hungry challenger in Corey Casey. Corey Casey, one of the baddest men in IWF, multiple time world champion, and a man who had defeated James not only in NLWF, but also in IWF. Casey had multiple wins on Shark, where as Shark had a few wins on Corey. This was Shark's match to lose as Corey was the man to take Shark's championship the first time.

However history did not repeat itself. James Shark defeated Corey and retained his title in true James Shark fashion, by landing his right hand on Corey's jaw, and dropping Corey unconcious.

A few weeks later, James Shark took on Corey Casey once again, as Corey teamed up with Robbie, and Shark teamed up with Team Swag member, Cody Taylor for 1/2 of the IWF Tag Team Championships. Shark and Cody won the match, defeating both men, to retain the titles.

During that time, Steel Angel, a man who James spoke out about being "overrated" and "new blood trash", won the Battle for the Briefcase, which gave Steel Angel the right to challenge Shark for his title, at any given time and place.

James Shark did not worry about Steel, for he took on Steel Angel twice leading up to their match at Isolation, once in a Tag Team bout where Steel teamed up with Hostyle Jones, and another in a one on one match. In both matches, James had knocked Steel Angel out. Catching him in mid-air in the one on one match, and tagging him in the middle of the ring in the tag team match.

Everytime Steel Angel had tried to cash in the briefcase, James Shark made Steel Angel look foolish. Beating Steel Angel up constantly, it was Steel Angel who signed a contract agreement to give up his breifcase powers for a Main Event one on one Championship Match at Isolation.

James Shark was ready for the match, but was quickly attacked backstage by a group of IWF Rookies led by Chad Mason, it was then, when Steel Angel cashed in his breifcase and beat James for the title. Although the match was still booked for the Main Event, James did not show up.

He was furious with IWF management as Steel Angel broke his contract. He felt angered by the IWF staff for their lack of care for him, and them not willing to do anything, so he left the company. James had been suspended twice from the IWF, and this was the last straw, he left the company and never returned.

James Shark was supposed to return to the IWF in September to defend the Tag Team Titles with Cody Taylor, the tag titles that they never lost, however multiple wrestling websites report that James Shark had gotten into an argument with Rick Christian and Corey Casey, leaving Shark to choose not to return to the company at all.

Known Relationships
Throughout his on going career James Shark has not only been labeled as the "Bad Guy" of sports entertainment and the "Villian" but he has also been labeled names such as "Player" and "Manwhore". The cocky superstar has had his share of one night stands and relationships, however here is a list of his known girlfriends/wives that have been made public from television and his promos.

James Shark and Latoya Banks met in Brooklyn NY. The two of them were child hood friends and started dating in 2008. They've known each other for years and were on and off since 2010.

When the two of them realized that they weren't meant to be a couple they continued to remain good friends. Latoya Banks is a person James could trust as well as a person that could put her on trust on Shark.

Till this day the two of them remain best friends.

James and Lillian met in 2010. At the time Lillian Martinez was a Maxim Cover girl, and very popular model. It has been noted that Lillian was never inlove with Shark and only married him for his money.

In IWF, Lillian was kidnapped by Dan Alexander and Corey Casey as a plan to get into Shark's head before his World Title defense. Lillian was brought back to Shark a few days before his defense in which he lost.

The kidnapping of Lillian proved that aside from James Shark's "Player" Personality he did care for Lillian as it drove the superstar crazy.

The two of them were married for one year until Shark divorced Lillian and left her after divorcing her for WEW Starlet, and former pornstar Serai Leone. In an interview, Lillian revealed that after a few months it wasn't about the money and she had truely fallen for James. Till this day to the remain friends with minimal contact.

Karly Zedic another former model dated Shark for quite some time in 2009 until Karly broke up with him while he was in the NLWF. It was later then revealed to Shark by Karly that she was pregnant with his child in the year 2011.

The two went through a large custody case in which James won after bringing up Karly's alcohol problem. After a month of taking care of his child with Serai Leone and Kadri Ilves, he sent him back to Karly after realizing he couldn't raise a child. Till this day the two have very little contact.



James Shark and Serai Leone were together for a little over two months. They were with eachother in both the WEW, IWF and TIW. It has been reported that Serai was the first girl that James really cared about.

While they were dating, James held two world titles in two different companies and was being talked about to be the #1 wrestler in the sport as he was holding both the IWF World title and TIW World title all at thes same time.

When all the hype began to get to him there were rumors of him cheating on Serai with Karly Zedic backstage before the whole "custody cases" and his relationship with Serai began to change, including the way he treated her. James kicked her out of his house, and threw all of her belongings in the pool and even trash talked about her for months after they broke up. As of right now the two of them are on speaking terms as James apologized for everything he did.

It is unknown of Anna Stone or James Shark were dating or just friends with benefits because neither of the two spoke about their relationship to the media. The two of them were hooking up with each other for weeks until James Shark moved onto another IWF Diva in Kadri Ilves.

In an interview on Monday August 27 2012. James Shark made a joke to the media and said he carries a picture of Anna in his wallet.

Till this day both Anna Stone and James Shark are best friends.



The moment Kadri Ilves walked into the IWF Doors, James Shark was all over her. The very same day she got signed to the IWF, Shark brought Kadri back to his house and made love to her.

A week later she was already moving into his house. The relationship started quickly and also ended quickly. They only dated for a month or two until the news broke out that James Shark had gotten arrested in a hotel room and was caught in bed with XWE Diva Paige Ryan.

The police were called into a hotel room for a "noise complaint" and "noise disturbance" once they came into the room they found James Shark in bed with Paige.

They arrested Shark for an alleged assault on a police officer as well as possession of firearms that were found in the hotel room.

Kadri Ilves forgave James Shark and the two of them were back together again. Kadri Ilves and James Shark have also made a sex tape together during their time in the IWF that got leaked into the internet.

The apology didn't seem sincere from James because it was he that cheated on Kadri a second time with Paige Ryan once again. Dumping Kadri and even getting her deported back to Estonia.

After persuing a relationship with Paige Ryan, the two of them lasted two weeks before James dumped Paige informing the media that they argued over Paige serving Shark a chicken dinner and "accidently" dropping the chicken on the floor.

Apparently James felt as though Paige didn't respect the "chicken" therefore she didn't respect James. Both Kadri and Paige arn't on speaking terms with James.



The unlikely couple of ASWF Diva and Olympic Wrestler Cassandra Richards and James Shark became a reality but just as many expected, it didn't last, and it didn't last longer than his previous relationship with Paige Ryan either.

Both Cassie and James came to an agreement that they weren't meant for eachother and that they were both just completely opposite from one another. They both decided to end their relationship after one week.

They are still on speaking terms and still friends.