Shark Boy

Shark Boy
Shark Boy in 2008.
Born	(1975-01-28) January 28, 1975 (age 42) Dayton, Ohio
Children	Dylan Roll, Dean Jedi Roll (DJ), stepson Damion Wilhelm
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	El Piranha Dean Baldwin Dean Roll Shark Boy
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Billed weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Billed from	"The Deep Blue Sea" "The Deep Sea" "Deep Under the Sea" "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
Trained by	Les Thatcher
Debut	May 3, 1997

Dean Matthew Roll (born January 28, 1975) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Shark Boy.

Roll began training under Les Thatcher in October 1995 at the age of twenty. He debuted on May 3, 1997 in Thatcher's Heartland Wrestling Association, wrestling as the masked El Piranha. An HWA mainstay, Roll also occasionally portrayed the character of Dean Baldwin, the purported fifth, lesser known .

Later that year, debuted in the Independent Wrestling Association, where he developed the cartoonish character Shark Boy, partly inspired by the 1995 song "I Come From the Water" by the Toadies. In 1999, Roll trademarked the name "Shark Boy". In 1998, Shark Boy received a flurry of media attention. He was featured on ABC in an episode of 20/20 featuring professional wrestling, on the Discovery Channel as part of the annual Shark Week and on a documentary produced by MTV entitled True Life: I'm a Professional Wrestler.

On May 19, 1999, Shark Boy wrestled at the second annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show, defeating Matt Stryker, Tarek the Great and Chip Fairway in a tournament and receiving a trophy. Following the match, numerous World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation wrestlers, including Al Snow, Mankind and D'Lo Brown, entered the ring and lifted Shark Boy onto their shoulders. Shark Boy also wrestled at the 1998, 2000 and 2001 Brian Pillman Memorial Shows.