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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 and World Wrestling Entertainment.

Career

Mark Jindrak trained in the WCW Power Plant under Paul Orndorff and was promoted to the main WCW roster in late 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 of 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 18th, 2001 for the tag team titles. Palumbo and O'Haire retained their titles, and Jindrak disapeared from TV.

After World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) purchased WCW in July, 2001, Mark Jindrak came into the company 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 HWA then 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 22nd, 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 8th 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 WWE Velocity.

In September 2004 Mark Jindrak aligned himself with Kurt Angle and Luther Reigns, whom he helped take down and shave bald The Big Show during the 5th 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 SmackDown! taping February 22 (airing on February 24) 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 a week later on July 5. The WWE cited decreased revenue and a lack of enthusiasm with respect to Jindrak's in-ring abilities as the cause of his release.

Along with Matt Morgan, Jindrak has recently toured New Japan Pro Wrestling. Although primarily used as a low-carder, he has scored a surprise win over long-time veteran Osamu Nishimura.

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