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{{MedalSport | [[Collegiate wrestling]]}}{{MedalCountry|}} the [[Syracuse Orange]] {{MedalCompetition|[[NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships|NCAA Division I Championships]]}} {{MedalGold|1992 Oklahoma City|190 lb<ref name=":1"/>}}
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| show-medals = yes }}'''Mark Kerr''' (born December 21, 1968) is an American former [[wrestler]] and [[mixed martial artist]]. During his MMA career, he was a two-time [[Ultimate Fighting Championship|UFC]] Heavyweight Tournament Champion, World Vale Tudo Championship tournament winner, and a [[Pride Fighting Championships|PRIDE FC]] competitor. In [[collegiate wrestling]], Kerr was a [[NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships|NCAA Division I champion]]. In [[freestyle wrestling]], he won [[Gold medal|gold]] and [[silver medal]]s at the [[Wrestling World Cup|World Cup]] and silver at the [[Pan American Games]]. In [[submission wrestling]], Kerr is a four-time [[ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship|ADCC World Champion]], winning his weightclass twice along with the absolute division and the [[ADCC Submission Fighting World Championship#List of ADCC Superfight Champions|Superfight Championship]].
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Mark Kerr was born in [[Toledo, Ohio]] to Tom and Mary Kerr.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hudson|first1=David|title=Combat Sports: An Encyclopedia of Wrestling, Fighting, and Mixed Martial Arts|date=13 May 2009|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-0313343834|page=169|edition=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmhFCQAAQBAJ&q=mark+kerr+born+in+toledo&pg=PA169|access-date=21 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas V. Kerr Obituary|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-v-kerr&pid=95305311&fhid=5503|website=legacy.com|access-date=21 November 2016}}</ref> His father was [[Irish Americans|Irish]], and his mother was [[Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gross |first=Josh |title=Former MMA champ Mark Kerr reflects on his career |url=https://www.si.com/mma/2015/05/21/mark-kerr-former-mma-champ-reflects-on-career-future |access-date=2022-08-09 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=21 May 2015 |language=en-us}}</ref> From early childhood, he would dream of being in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation]] and would hold mock fights with his younger siblings in the back yard.
In 1983, Kerr began his wrestling career in [[Bettendorf, Iowa]] as a freshman at [[Bettendorf High School]] where he shared the wrestling room with another future MMA champion [[Pat Miletich]], a senior at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.si.com/mma/2015/05/21/mark-kerr-former-mma-champ-reflects-on-career-future?page=2|title=Former MMA champ Mark Kerr reflects on his career|date=21 May 2015 }}</ref> After his freshman year at Bettendorf, Kerr and his family moved to [[Toledo, Ohio]] where he became a high school state champion for [[Waite High School (Toledo, Ohio)|Toledo Waite]].<ref name="presspubs">[http://www.presspublications.com/sports/37-sports/6109-half-century-of-waite-wrestling-comes-to-sudden-halt Half century of Waite wrestling comes to sudden halt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420172908/http://www.presspublications.com/sports/37-sports/6109-half-century-of-waite-wrestling-comes-to-sudden-halt |date=2017-04-20 }}. Presspublications.com (2011-01-24). Retrieved on 2012-06-17.</ref>
===College and post-graduate career===
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