Mace (wrestler)

Williams received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team from 2009 to 2012. As a senior in 2012, he received honorable mention All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) honors.[5] Williams tore his labrum his senior year of college.[6] Williams majored in communications while attending North Carolina.[7]

The Houston Texans selected Williams in the third round with the 89th overall pick of the 2013 NFL Draft.[8] He would go on to miss his rookie season with a microfracture in his knee.[5] On July 21, 2014, he was released.[9]

On February 20, 2015, Williams was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars, to a two-year contract, with the intention of being a backup to starter Jeremy Parnell.[10] On August 29, 2015, Williams was released by Jacksonville.[11]

On October 20, 2015, the New England Patriots signed Williams to their practice squad. They waived him two days later.[12]

After being released by the Patriots, Williams returned to Houston to train to become a professional wrestler[12] under the tutelage of WWE star Booker T.[13] He made his debut with Booker's Reality of Wrestling promotion on February 1, 2016, under the ring name of Marcellus Black.

On February 11, 2016, Williams participated in a WWE try-out at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.[14] On August 1, 2016, WWE officially announced the signing of Williams, who started training at the Performance Center the same day.[15][16] He made his in-ring debut for the company at a NXT live event in Orlando, Florida on September 30, 2016, competing in a battle royal.[17]

In June 2019, Brennan was given the new ring name, Dio Maddin. However, on September 10, 2019, Maddin joined the commentary team for 205 Live, replacing Nigel McGuinness.[18] Later that same month, WWE announced as part of their "Premiere Week" that the commentary teams would be changed, with Maddin becoming an analyst for the Raw commentary team with Vic Joseph and Jerry Lawler. His work as commentator ended in November 2019, when he was sent back to NXT to train. His absence was explained when, on the November 4, 2019, edition of Raw, Maddin was attacked by Brock Lesnar who performed an F-5 on Maddin through the announcer's table.[19]

On the September 21, 2020, episode of Raw, he made his main roster debut. Now as a wrestler, he was revealed as a member of the villainous stable Retribution, under the ring name Mace, with a mask, new outfit, and sporting a noticeably lighter and more defined physique.[20] On the October 5 episode of Raw, Mustafa Ali revealed as the stable's leader. At Fastlane on March 21, 2021, Mace and T-Bar attacked Ali, disbanding the stable. On the April 12 episode of Raw, Mace and T-Bar attacked Drew McIntyre. The following week on Raw, Mace was finally unmasked along with T-Bar in a tag team match against McIntyre and Braun Strowman, in which Mace and T-Bar won by disqualification. Later in an interview, they confirmed the start of their tag team run.

As part of the 2021 Draft, Mace was drafted to the SmackDown brand while T-Bar remained on the Raw brand, thus disbanding the team.[21] On the November 26, 2021, episode of SmackDown, he competed in a Black Friday Invitational battle royal, where the winner would become the #1 contender for the Universal Championship, but was eliminated by Madcap Moss.

On the April 15, 2022, episode of SmackDown, Mace returned in a dark segment as LA Knight's first acquisition under Knight Model Management. Following the announcement, Mace defeated Erik of The Viking Raiders in a dark match.[22] On the July 1 episode of SmackDown, Knight, now known as Max Dupri, announced Mace and Mansoor, under the tweaked names "ma.çé" and "mån.sôör", as his new tag team, Maximum Male Models.[23] Maximum Male Models later welcomed Maxxine Dupri, Max's (kayfabe) sister, to manage the team. Maximum Male Models joined the Raw brand on February 6, 2023, and remained on Raw following the 2023 WWE Draft.[24][25] After weeks of spending time with Otis of the Alpha Academy, Maxxine left Maximum Male Models to join Alpha Academy on the May 15 episode of Raw when she cheered on Otis and Chad Gable eliminating ma.çé and mån.sôör in the Intercontinental Championship number one contenders' battle royal match.[26][27]

On September 21, 2023, after months of inactivity, ma.çé and mån.sôör both announced on X that they were no longer with WWE.[28]