Alex Shelley
| Alex Shelley | |
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Shelley in April 2010
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| Birth name | Patrick Martin |
| Born |
May 23, 1983 Detroit, Michigan |
| Residence | Plymouth, Michigan |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Alex Shelley David Decker |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Billed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) |
| Billed from | Detroit, Michigan |
| Trained by |
Truth Martini Breyer Wellington Scott D'Amore Joe E. Legend |
| Debut | March 2, 2002 |
Patrick Martin (born May 23, 1983), is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley. He is best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as one half of The Motor City Machine Guns with Chris Sabin. He first gained fame on the independent circuit working for Ring of Honor (ROH), as well as in Japan, for Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max. He has also worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion. Aside from wrestling, he is the lead singer of a rock band called The High Crusade, which includes his friends and fellow wrestlers Chris Sabin and Petey Williams.
Martin initially started training in the fall of 2002 under Breyer Wellington and Truth Martini. He then joined the BCW Can-Am Wrestling School and began training under Scott D'Amore and Joe E. Legend. Martin debuted in 2002 as "Alex Shelley", a name he created by combining the forename of Alex, the protagonist of the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange, with the surname of Pete Shelley, the lead singer of the 1970s punk rock band the Buzzcocks. Six months into his career, he was hospitalized with a shattered jaw when he slipped on a wet ring and hit the unpadded ring apron. Shelley had steel plates inserted into his jaw as a result. After eight months, Shelley joined Ian Rotten's IWA Mid-South promotion. He worked in the IWA for six months before joining the Philadelphia-based Combat Zone Wrestling. Not long after that, he joined Ring of Honor.
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