Nathan Jones

Injured his arm after being sideswiped by a cement truck in Bangkok, Thailand, in September 2008. He suffered nerve damage to his arm and was sidelined from wrestling for three months.

Recently returned to strongman competitions, now a salaried pro-strongman. [May 2005]

On December 6, 2003, he apparently decided to "quit" the business during a Smackdown! tour of Asia & Australia.

His career later turned towards Professional Wrestling and Sports Entertainment in 2002, where we made his televised World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) debut on the SmackDown! roster.

Showed promise as a WWE Wrestler (2001-2003) until he quit, due to an exhausting touring schedule.

Nathan Jones is an Australian actor, power-lifting champion, strongman, and former WWE professional wrestler. He rose upon the world strongman scene in 1995, and showed magnitude to become perhaps the top competitor in the world. At 6' 11" and 330 lbs. of muscle & mayhem, the giant Australian known as "Megaman" was an imposing sight, and used his great size and strength to place high in the World Musclepower Championships.

Before his career as a wrestler, he was sentenced to 16 years in 1987 at the age of 18 to Boggo Road Gaol for eight armed robberies between 1985-1987, two of which occurred in Tasmania. During the robberies, he became one of Australia's most wanted and ended up serving seven years in a maximum-security prison. In 1994, Jones was given one year work release before being discharged at the age of 25. While in prison, he was introduced to the sport of power lifting.

Born in Victoria, Queensland on August 21, 1968, his mother (Adrienne Grace-Jones) is of English/Irish descent, and father (Malcolm Hirtzel) is of German/Swedish descent. Nathan's grandfather (on his father's side) at 6'7", was a Caber tossing champion in New Zealand, while his great grandfather at 6'5", known for his adept swimming skills and champion medals, joined the police force, and was inducted into their Nautical task-force, also due to his nautical engineering background as well. The story of how the ship he were on got hit and sank, his great grandfather was the only survivor out of 6 men on board, suffering under below freezing temperatures, swam across The River Thames to his survival. All the while, his grandfather (on his mother's side) held a physics & electrical engineering degree, and competed in Olympic track cycling. He even showed his devotion and cycled 25 miles a day to court his true love. (Nathan's grandmother)As projected, he proved himself, and won the Highland Games World Strongman Challenge at age 26 in Scotland against Gary Taylor, a 6x World Record Holder & Olympian. . and did it naturally.