Drake Younger

Drake Younger, now Drake Wuertz, has one of the more compelling arcs in modern wrestling. He bled and brawled through the deathmatch underground at CZW and IWA Mid-South, then completely reinvented himself as a WWE referee from 2014 to 2021. I find that pivot genuinely interesting: a man who knew the chaos of the ring intimately stepping into the role of impartial arbiter. There is something to be said for an official who has actually lived the violence he polices. To me he embodies the duality of reckless youth and measured adulthood within a single career.

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Name (English)

Drake Younger

Name (Japanese)

ドレイク・ヤンガー

Reading

どれいく・やんがー

Born

September 10, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Occupation

professional wrestler / professional wrestling referee / amateur wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%20Wuertz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504575

Tags

• Indiana
• professional wrestler
• professional wrestling referee
• amateur wrestler

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.