Biography of alex shelley
Birth name | Patrick Kenneth Martin |
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Born | May 23, 1983 Detroit, Michigan, United States |
Residence | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
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 | Breyer Wellington,Truth Martini Joe E. Legend Scott D'Amore |
Debut | March 2, 2002 |
Patrick Martin[1] (born May 23, 1983)[2][3] is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley.
He is best known for his time with impact Wrestling (TNA), as one half of The Motor City Machine Guns, with Chris Sabin. , where he is a former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion.
Martin initially started training in the early 2002 under Breyer Wellington and Truth Martini.[8] He then joined the Border City Wrestling's Can-Am Wrestling School, and began training under Joe E. Legend and Scott D'Amore.[8] Martin debuted in March 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.[8] 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.[9] Shelley had steel plates inserted into his jaw as a result. . He worked in the IWA for six months before joining the Philadelphia-based Combat Zone Wrestling.[8] Not long after that, he joined Ring of Honor (ROH).[8]
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