From the great state of Michigan its Motor-City Machinegun Alex Shelly for todays TNA Impact Wrestler Showcase

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Patrick Martin (born May 23, 1983), better known by the ring name Alex Shelley, is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for Ring of Honor, as well as in Japan, for Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX, where he currently holds the AAW Tag Team Championship with Chris Sabin, whom he currently teams with in TNA as the Motor City Machine Guns.

Shelley signed a non-exclusive contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on July 8, 2004. He was paired with Goldy Locks and dubbed “Baby Bear” Alex Shelley. Shelley requested his release from TNA late that year after booker Dusty Rhodes stopped utilizing him.

Shelley signed a new contract with TNA in 2005 after Rhodes resigned as TNA booker, and returned on June 19, 2005 at Slammiversary, losing to Shocker. He went on to form a tag team with Michael Shane, with the duo losing to America’s Most Wanted at No Surrender 2005 on July 17. Shelley entered the TNA 2005 Super X Cup Tournament, but lost to Samoa Joe in the semi-finals on August 5.

He then entered the Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament with Sean Waltman as his tag team partner, and won the tournament by defeating Shocker and Chris Sabin in the finals on the September 9 episode of TNA iMPACT!. As a result of their victory, Waltman and Shelley were granted a shot at the NWA World Tag Team Championship in a four-way tag team bout at TNA Unbreakable on September 11.

After Waltman no-showed the event, Shelley was left without a partner, but opted to wrestle alone. He was doubled teamed by Team Canada (Eric Young and A-1) for much of the match until Johnny Candido, the brother of Chris Candido, climbed on to the apron and accepted Shelley’s tag. However, Candido was pinned by Young shortly thereafter, with Shelley being eliminated from the match as a result.

Throughout late-2005, Shelley wrestled in the X Division as a heel, facing Austin Aries on several occasions. In November 2005 he introduced a gimmick that saw him bring a camcorder (the “Shelley-cam”) to ringside in order to film matches to study later for strategic purposes (in reality, Shelley owned over 200 professional wrestling videotapes at the time).

In late 2005, he began teaming with his former Generation Next teammates Austin Aries and Roderick Strong, feuding with established X Division babyfaces, Sonjay Dutt, Chris Sabin, and Matt Bentley and demanding bigger roles in the company from road agent Jerry Lynn which lead to a series of matches in which the reformed Generation Next came out on top. In early 2006, Shelley was recruited by Jeff Jarrett to obtain candid video footage of Jackie Gayda for the purposes of blackmail. Shelley went on to create the fictional enterprise “Paparazzi Productions” and obtain footage of Sting, Christian Cage and their respective families for the purposes of intimidation. Throughout April and May 2006, Shelley wrestled in the 2006 World X Cup Tournament as a member of the victorious Team USA.

In May whilst the World X Cup was in progress, he interviewed Kevin Nash, during which Nash announced that the X Division was mere filler, and that intended to destroy the X Division. Shelley’s lack of defense for the division created fiction between his team mates & himself, with Shelley ultimately aligning himself with Nash after the tournament’s end. Since then the two have done several well-received comedy vignettes (some exclusive to YouTube) mostly focusing on their feud with Chris Sabin. At Slammiversary 2006, Shelley helped Nash defeat Sabin.

Earlier Shelley had been ranked fifth in the X Division after being the second person eliminated in a 6-man contender’s match. In a post-match interview with Nash, Shelley claimed there was “ten guys, twenty guys – some of them had knives. I think I spotted a couple gats… guns.”

On July 16, 2006 Shelley teamed up with Kevin Nash to face Chris Sabin and Jay Lethal. The two lost the bout, but would get the last laugh by Shelley, Nash, and Johnny Devine. At Hard Justice 2006, Alex Shelley would replace Nash in a match. Shelley and Devine would move into the tag team division until they lost a Triple Chance Tag Team Battle Royal at No Surrender 2006. Shelley also appeared in Kevin Nash’s Open Invitational X Division Battle Royal at Bound for Glory 2006 on October 22, 2006.

He lost the match to Austin Starr. Since the creation of Paparazzi Productions, Shelley recruited former Team Canada member Johnny Devine as a production assistant. Johnny Devine was later fired by the Paparazzi. Devine has been replaced to the dismay of Shelley by former Generation Next team mate Austin Starr due to Kevin Nash’s wishes. Since this, the three were seen backstage on various episodes of iMPACT in a tournament known as the Paparazzi Championship Series, which he won at Final Resolution Afterwards, he would tape two kayfabe attacks by the Latin American Exchange.

One on Brother Rays uncle, another on Johnny Rodz. When he showed the footage of the LAX beatdown on Rodz, he was confronted by Brother Ray. Before a fight could breakout, the LAX attempted to attack Brother Ray. However, when it seemed Ray had the upper hand, Kevin Nash distracted him. This allowed Shelley to hit him with a low blow. At Destination X 2007 Shelley helped LAX win the match by hitting Brother Devon with a video camera and giving him a Frog Splash through a table. Shelley lost in the 5-man Xscape match at Lockdown 2007. He was pinned by Jay Lethal. Later, Jay Lethal and Chris Sabin were the remaining two and Sabin escaped, retaining the X Division Championship. During the summer of 2007 Shelley began wrestling as a tag team in TNA with Chris Sabin.

The two had been teaming in several independent promotions under the names Murder City Machine Guns and Motor City Machine Guns, both names being a play off of one of Shelley’s former tag teams, “The Sexy Time Machine Guns” and the fact that both Sabin & Shelley hail from Detroit, Michigan. In October 2007, Shelley and Sabin started a feud with Team 3D, during which Team 3D declared a war on the entire X Division and was looking to kill it off.

After months of feuding, Shelley and Sabin along with Jay Lethal were able to defeat Team 3D and Johnny Devine in a Street Fight at Against All Odds to save the X Division and to end the feud. With the win Team 3D were forced to drop their weights under 275 lb if they wanted to keep on wrestling for the company. He is currently fighting for team TNA in the World X Cup along side Kaz, the team captain, Chris Sabin and Curry Man (Christopher Daniels). In July 25, 2008, Shelley and five other TNA wrestlers traveled to Mexico to compete in the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Grand Prix International tournament, where Shelley came out victorious in the finals against Ultimo Guerrero.

Alex Shelly

Height: 5’10″ | Weight: 215 pounds
Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
Finishing Move: The Shellshock

 

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