I'm going to part with convention here, and write this bio in the first person. I just can't take myself seriously when I'm referring to myself in the third person like some overpaid superstar jock, so I guess this is going to qualify as an "autobio"!

After spending most of my childhood and early teen years as a dumpy, fat and awkward kid, I started weight training at the age of 17, which would be my first step on a road first for weight loss and then, after a brief and disastrous stint in the Canadian Armed Forces, as a competitive powerlifter.

During the early nineties, under the tutelage of my coach and good friend Dave Hoffman, I notched victories in several regional contests and, at the age of 23, earned a silver medal at the 1991 Canadian Junior Powerlifting Championships.

At this point I had an extremely early mid-life crisis, which spurred me to move out of my hometown of Kitchener, Ontario. With a boatload of financial help from good friends Carlos Leal and Kristel Vines, I enlisted in Calgary's Hart Brothers Pro Wrestling Camp to train in the grappling arts under instructors Lance Storm and Chris Jericho. While I would never make a dime in professional wrestling, I did get to travel to every province from Quebec to British Columbia, and also wrestle extensively throughout the USA, England and South Africa.

In 1996, a couple of years after returning to Kitchener, I began working as "Death Wolf" in Detroit, Michigan's Insane Championship Wrestling. There I met talent agent Phyllis Lee, who urged me to apply for entry into a Japanese organization known as "Pancrase". At the time, Pancrase was the best-established mixed martial arts (MMA) organization in the world, with a roster that boasted such future stars as the Shamrock brothers, Maurice Smith, Bas Rutten and Guy Mezger. Despite having no prior competitive fighting experience, I submitted my application and to my shock it was accepted.

On Feb. 22, 1997 I became the first Canadian ever to fight in Pancrase, facing the massive Ryushi Yanagisawa at Tokyo Bay NK hall before ten thousand spectators. Predictably, I was beaten decisively in a thirteen-minute battle, but was still quickly invited back to face world champion Masakatsu Funaki.

After being beaten by Funaki, I lived and trained at the Pancrase dojo in Yokohama for several weeks, and would fight twice more before a falling out with Phyllis spelled an end to my less-than-successful career in Japan.

In early 1998, after two fights in the Dallas, Texas-based World Pankration Council, I once again headed west, this time to Vancouver. Wanting to take one last crack at making it as a pro wrestler, I hooked up with the Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling promotion, and changed my ring name to Leviathan. Together with hardcore wrestling pioneer Dr. Luther (Lenny Olson) and promising rookies Abaddon (Akiva Maas) and Incubus (Bob Marlowe), I became part of the "Army of Darkness", which was soon established as the most popular wrestling group in the Pacific northwest.

In late 1999 I began to realize that I would ascend no further than the indie level of wrestling, and co-founded the Wrestle-Plex pro wrestling school as an attempt to find another way to make a living out of the business. Differences of opinion between myself and my partner eventually spelled an end to that venture, and after selling my half of the school I rededicated myself to fighting. MMA was still illegal in Canada at this point, so in its place I took up Muay Thai kickboxing. On September 9, 2000, in only my third Muay Thai match ever, I TKO'd Ontario's Rick Lutzer in a bloody brawl that netted me the CMTA Canadian superheavyweight title.

At around this time I made the acquaintance of James "Bam Bam" Bamford, a stunt performer/coordinator who, amongst many other things, had doubled "X-Files" star David Duchovny. Together with fellow coordinator Dean Choe, Bam Bam gave me my foot in the door as a stunt performer on the action series "Freedom", and he has since helped me through a five-year-long career that continues to this day.

During the years following my first stunt job I continued my martial arts training under instructor and close friend Chris Franco, and have stepped back between the ropes for occasional fights. Two non-title bouts and a successful defense against Toronto's Kirk Jones were followed by a title unification bout against WKA Canadian champion Nick Penner. Happily, (and despite the horrendous beating that Penner laid on me) I won a unanimous decision over Penner to become the undisputed Canadian Muay Thai champion.

In 2003 I had the best year of my life, working non-stop on blockbusters such as "I, Robot" and "The Chronicles of Riddick". I also met and married former WWE diva Marianna Komlos, although we would be together for barely a year before breast cancer and medical malpractice claimed her life on September 26, 2004.

As a way of dealing with the loss of Marianna, I rededicated myself to training and in May of 2005 I returned once more to the ring. By now MMA was legal in British Columbia, so I signed to battle Jiu-jitsu fighter Paul Daniel for the vacant NFC Canadian MMA title. Once again I won by unanimous decision, garnering both my first MMA win and my first MMA title in the same fight.

Today, I continue training at Franco Kickboxing/Pankration, and am unsure of whether or not my fight career is truly over. Stunts and acting remain my top priority, however, and to date I continue to enjoy the good fortune allows me to work in Vancouver's film and television industry.