Mercer Snow

Mercer was born in Augusta to an upper middle-class family. He had a pretty easy, normal early life. At the age of ten, his mother had gotten him into some mixed martial arts lessons for him to start doing some sports and quickly grew a liking to it, training more and more. In his early teens, he was made fun of and bullied because of his sister being a special-needs child. This caused him to get into a lot of different fights and secretly used these fights as a way to train in real life. But this was also a very hard time in his life and he wanted to get away from it all.
At the age of seventeen, Mercer enlisted into the United States Military and went through basic training for the marine core in 26 weeks, going off on his first and only tour in Afghanistan in his 28th week in the Marines. He finished his tour three months after his 28th week and continued his time with the Marines until the age of 20, when he finished his two-year service and went home to Maine, where he continued his MMA training and started his studies at the University of New England. In a mere six months, he was scouted by the UFC to join their reality TV show, the Ultimate Fighter.
Winning the Ultimate Fighter and becoming a UFC Heavyweight Competitor, he quickly rose through the leaderboards, known as Snow (named because of his last name and for how he “iced” people in matches), before becoming the number one contender for his weight division’s title. After winning the title, he was awarded the Match of the Year Award in 2005 for the title match. He vacated the title shortly afterward, deciding to go into the Light Heavyweight division. Again, he quickly rose through the ranks and won the Light Heavyweight Championship a year after his last title, winning that year’s Match of the Year award as well. He held that title for a couple of years, before retiring from the UFC.
After his impressive run in UFC, Mercer thought he would be done with fighting, continuing studying medicine to one day become a medical doctor. And even while he did continue his studies, he had gotten more and more into wrestling after his run in UFC, he started to wrestle in professional leagues, the first one in his University, where he won another championship yet again during that time. And, at the year 2008, he won the Gold Medal for Wrestling in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
He continued to wrestle professionally for a time, until finally being scouted by the NLWF, early 2013.