Grado

Graeme Stevely (born 2 June 1988), better known by the ring name Grado, is a Scottish professional wrestler and actor who plays Alan in Two Doors Down, PC Hugh McKirdy in Scot Squad and is currently signed to Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW), where he is a former ICW World Heavyweight Champion.

Grado first got into wrestling in 2002.

He trained briefly with Red Lightning, Kid Fite, and Drew Galloway at British Championship Wrestling.

A few years later he went on to train with the Scottish Wrestling Alliance.

He made his debut for them in 2004, under the ring name Grant Dunbar, as part of The Lowlanders with Glen Dunbar.

They achieved little success, but held the SWA Tag Team Championships on two occasions.

After years of wrestling sporadically and performing as lead singer of Scottish metalcore band Prezident Prime, Grado returned to training at SWA, this time with new head trainer Big Damo.

He made a Facebook video to sell tickets for a Scottish Wrestling Alliance show next to his home town, leading to a promo feud with Jackie Polo which included his first time dancing along to Madonna "Like a Prayer".

These videos and promos became popular and Mark Dallas from Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) hatched the "Get Grado Booked" campaign.

During this time, Grado was the subject of a Vice documentary, The British Wrestler, which saw his popularity rise with American stars like Sonjay Dutt voicing their support.

As part of the Vice documentary, Grado appeared to defeat ICW Heavyweight Champion Red Lightning at Super Smokin' Thunderbowl to win the ICW Heavyweight Championship.

The match was later restarted as Red Lightning had his leg under the bottom rope.

Red Lightning would go on to retain the title.

On 3 November 2012 Grado partnered with JD Bravo in a tag team match against The Coffey Brothers (Joe Coffey and Mark Coffey) with The Coffey Brothers winning the Match.

During the ICW Fringe Tour in 2014, Grado teamed up with Colt Cabana to face the New Age Kliq (Chris Renfrew and BT Gunn) and won the first Official ICW Tag Team Championships.

Grado and Cabana are known as Irn Jew and on the last night of the tour they lost their Tag Team Championships to The New Age Kliq.

In 2014, Grado appeared on the second season of TNA British Boot Camp in an ongoing feud with judge Al Snow.

After missing the second round of the competition due to having lunch and losing track of time, Snow threw Grado out of the competition.

Grado would then appear at the Manchester auditions and was once again thrown out.

He reappeared in London and with some convincing from Gail Kim, Snow allowed him back into the competition.

Snow would then send Sha Samuels to rough up Grado in the second round.

He would make it through to the British finals and onto the U.S. finals before finally being eliminated at the Top 6.

On 15 November 2015 Fear & Loathing VIII Grado defeated Drew Galloway to win the ICW World Heavyweight Championship at the SECC.

On 14 March 2015 Grado teamed with Kenny Williams against Darkside and TJ Rage for the Premier British Wrestling Tag Team Championship.

Grado and Williams won the match to become new tag champions.

Grado won the PWE Elite Rumble to for earn a title shot and the opportunity to name the next event.

The next PWE show was called Gradomania.

He won the Pro Wrestling Elite Heavyweight Championship from Dave Mastiff at GradoMania.

Grado held the title for 511 days, retaining against Andy Wild, Noam Dar, Liam Thomson and Joey Hayes.

He lost the title to Iestyn Rees after Rees cashed in his title shot at PWE Jingle All The Galloway.

In the last ever PWE show, following the passing of Adrian 'Lionheart' McCallum, Grado was to recapture the title and following a conversation with a fan presented the title to Adrian's mother.

In addition to working in Insane Championship Wrestling, Grado also appears for various companies around the UK.

He has worked for SWA, PWE, SWE, PBW and Wrestlezone among other companies.

At WrestleZone's Aberdeen Anarchy event in the Beach Ballroom in front of a sold out 1,300 crowd, Grado defeated childhood hero Scotty 2 Hotty.

On 27 and 28 July, Grado worked for What Culture Pro Wrestling.

At the fifth annual Square Go on 24 January 2016, Grado lost the ICW World Heavyweight Championship to Chris Renfrew, ending his reign at just two months, the shortest reign in ICW History at that time.

At the event he also debuted a new theme, and a new look, coming out to a rock version of "99 Problems" replacing his long time theme "Like A Prayer", as well as ditching his long time singlet for trunks, and the flannel given to him by Mick Foley at Fear and Loathing VIII.

At Fear & Loathing IX on 20 November 2016, in the SSE Hydro, Grado teamed as a part of Team Dallas to defeat Team Black Label to reclaim ownership of ICW.

On 16 April 2017 At Barramania III Grado turned heel for the first time in his career by attacking his longtime friend Sha Samuels and aligning himself with Red Lightning.

At Shug's Hoose Party 4 on 30 July he lost to Samuels in a Loser Leaves ICW match forcing Grado to leave ICW.