MMA fighter, Mark Kerr, one of the roadies from the Steel Wheels Tour went on to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame! Does anyone have any pictures or videos of him during that era?

There is a documentary entitled the Smashing Machine, and more recently a movie with the same title. But, I want to see video footage of him moving Keith Richard's guitars!

Hi Gorda, great to "see" you back. I think Mark was not in those tours

I have the great book, "Rolling Stones - Images of the World Tour 1989 - 1990" and at the end there are three lists of Tour personnel for the American, European and Japanese legs of the tours and Mark Kerr is not listed, the lists are big with full detail of duties of each one, including roadies.

Where did you see that Mark Kerr was a roadie?

They keep saying it in the documentaries. That he was a roadie for the WHO and the Rolling Stones! I did the math, and I figured it was the Steel Wheels Tour. Maybe, it was another tour?

Fine tune your math Gorda and probably someone will help. I don't have tour personnel lists of the previous (1981-1982) and next tour (1994-1995)

Anyway, is a big difference between tours so it is probaly fake. Other option is that he was a member of a local crew, the Stones some times hire contratists for some jobs, and they are local people

Marr Kerr was born in 1968. That means he was 13 and 14 during the American 1981-82 tour. In 1994-95, during the Voodoo Lounge Tour, he was 26 and 27

They didn't include or mention anything about him being a roadie in the movie, so maybe it wasn't true! 

Although, the movie takes place between 1997 and 2000!

I found this Sport's Illustrated article where Mark Kerr talks about his time as a roadie for several bands, not just the Stones.

His Smashing Machine days over, Mark Kerr reflects on then and now
Former UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr reflects on his career and his future
Josh Gross | May 21, 2015

Kerr dialed United Production Services, which won the contract to set up the Rolling Stones’ mammoth North American Steel Wheels tour. Sixty dates in 33 cities in just over four months. He negotiated the going rate ($800 a week plus $210 per diem) and the next day flew from Detroit to Philadelphia. Before Kerr was handed schematics for the downstage right staircase, the crew boss at Veterans Stadium explained the youngest would-be roadie on the tour had three shows to prove himself.

“Philadelphia is all union,” Kerr said. “All of a sudden I’ve got 20 guys behind me. I’m 20 years old and I’m trying to build something I’ve never seen before.”

On opening night, Aug. 31, 1989, Mick Jagger stepped into “Shattered,” the Stones’ third song of the set, and a generator blew. Jagger kept The Vet calm by speaking to the crowd. Behind the scenes it “was absolutely crazy,” Kerr said. “The Rolling Stones with 40,000 fans and no power? Everyone was pointing fingers.” He made the cut and from August to December joined a massive production that crisscrossed multiple sets around North America’s largest arenas.

Because it was football season, Saturday night concerts often had to be Sunday morning memories. Condensed-ins and condensed-outs, essentially rush jobs, were particularly intense.
The pressure to build and disassemble stages prompted the tour’s senior management to use drugs to amp up the crew’s work rate, Kerr said.

"You'd have a production trailer and you'd get a boss calling you on the mic, time for lunch,” Kerr said. “You'd come in, they'd pull a drawer open, there'd be a pile of cocaine. I was told to take what I need, but I had to have a job done by this hour.

Reading the first parragraph of your article, I confirm what I said before, he was not part of the stones crew, he was part of the contractor crew that's why he it's not listed as a roadie of the Stones.

That show was very special: the ten-minute power failure was during (ironically) ‘Shattered’ and they didn't play that song again during the rest of the tour. It was also the very first show with Keith singing two songs. NOt just that, as it was the opening show of the tour (after the warm up show at Toad’s Place in Newhaven, CT, it was the live debut of 5 songs, and some songs were last played in 1966/1967 and 1975-1977

More here: https://rocksoff.org/1989p1.htm

Here for you, the Rolling Stones personnel for the Northamerican leg

https://www.rocksoff.org/headers2025/j5-tourpersonnel-1989-rolling-stones-001.jpg

Source: "Rolling Stones - Images of the World Tour 1989 - 1990"

Thank you for the info.