Alex Shane Alex Spilling ( November 15 , 1979 ) is an English professional wrestler who is best known by his ring name " The Showstealer " Alex Shane . Spilling also works as a promoter and wrestling trainer . Professional wrestling career . Early career . Alex Spilling began wrestling for the NWA UK Hammerlock promotion in 1995 under the tutelage owner Andre Baker . After several years with the promotion , Spilling became an assistant trainer under Justin Richards and " The Anarchist " where he trained many of the Hammerlock roster like " Mad Dog McPhie , " The Wonderkid " and " The Phoenix " along with others , Spilling later fell out with Baker and left to work for a new TV company UWA . During his time in UWA , Spilling was not as successful as other from Hammerlock had been like Jodie Fleisch , Jonny Storm , Mad Dog McPhie or The Anarchist and formed a tag team with fellow ex hammerlock wrestler Guy Thunder and developed much of his in - ring ability and mic skills as well as creating his heel persona , Alex Shane . Frontier Wrestling Alliance . In 1999 , he was taken under the wing of Dino Scarlo along with Jody Fleisch . During this time , Shane was first approached by the newly revived Frontier Wrestling Alliance promotion . He and Guy Thunder worked the companies second show and later became the British Heavyweight Champion . Shane then opened his own wrestling school , Capital City Pro Wrestling . CCPW became the official London home of the FWA , and Shane became further involved in the company by helping to run the first - ever FWA London show at Barking , Essex in 2001 . During this time , Shane also made appearances in a newly formed promotion known as Universal Championship Wrestling , it was here Shane was repackaged as LX Blade , a cartoon type robot character . The character was abandoned when the promotion folded after just two shows . While promoting his CCPW venture , Shane to appeared as a guest on the talkSPORT radio show hosted by Tommy Boyd . Shane soon became a regular co - host and helped the show become the UK ' s first fully fledged national wrestling radio show . During his time on the radio show in 2001 , Shane returned to the FWA under his most successful persona " The Showstealer . " Shane also worked alongside Boyd to help FWA produce one of its largest early shows , " FWA Revival " in 2002 , which was broadcast on national TV . Alex Shane and Tommy Boyd fell out soon afterwards , and Boyd was replaced on talkSPORT by Alex Shane and his brand new show " Wrestle - Talk " , which had a reported 400 , 000 listeners at its highest point . It was not long before Shane leveraged this new position to become the majority share holder of FWA . TalkSPORT canceled the show in December 2002 as it felt wrestling was not part of the image they wished to promote . Shane then teamed with former rival Ulf Herman to defeat the UK Pitbulls and win the FWA Tag Team Championship upon his return on October 25 , 2002 . At British Uprising II , however , in 2003 Shane turned on Herman , dropping his baby face image to become one of the top heels in the UK . While in the FWA , Shane had a storyline with boxer Danny Williams , which started when Alex Shane , in a worked - shoot , informed the crowd that Danny ' s agent had , ironically , banned him from taking part in any sort of wrestling angle in the company . Shane then claimed he was going to grab as much publicity as he could and began to insult Danny Williams and his entourage . Williams genuinely appeared to lose his cool when , as he walked away , Shane called him a homosexual and spat at his teenage brother - in - law , inciting a pull - apart brawl . The worked fracas , that nearly ended up in disaster at the FWA show made it to the Daily Mirror newspaper and UK national news programmes . Shane also feuded with Steve Corino and Doug Williams , defeating him to become FWA British Heavyweight Champion at " British Uprising 3 " . Shane , however , then sold his shares in FWA in 2004 as he wished to pursue interests outside of wrestling . Promoting . Alex Shane would , however , continue his career in wrestling promoting and presented the event International Showdown at the Coventry Skydome which was attended by over 3 , 000 people and branded " as good as it gets " by UK wrestling magazine " Powerslam " . In its sequel , Universal Uproar , Shane gained a pinfall over three - time WWE champion and ' Hardcore Legend ' Mick Foley in an elimination tag - match . Hade Vansen won the FWA British Heavyweight Championship from Alex Shane in February 2006 , however he did so by pinning Joe Legend and not Alex Shane , who retired from active wrestling soon afterwards . In 2007 , his return to in - ring competition was announced as he was due to face Martin Stone but was forced to withdraw from the contest due to having emergency surgery on a tumor which was affecting blood flow to his brain . In March 2006 , Shane was announced as the new head of European Marketing and promotion for top American promotion Ring of Honor . In August , he promoted the group ' s first overseas tour , and it was also the companies biggest grossing weekend with tickets at $ 150 front row compared to their usual $ 25 in the States . The company returned in March 2007 with the final ROH appearances of Samoa Joe topping the last tour numbers and drawing around 2200 to the same building over two days . In April of the same year , Shane promoted a 16 - man tournament called " King of Europe Cup " . With 4 shows in 2 days ( two matinée and two evening events ) the weekend did a report 2100 plus ticket sales although due to the ROH shows in the same building so close to the event , the sales were lower than originally hoped for . After this Alex promoted a four - day sell out UK tour for TNA in June 2008 . He then returned to the ring in a surprise one shot deal for the IPW : UK promotion in South England to face Martin Stone . Billed as his last match before moving to India , Shane lost to Stone after almost 30 minutes in an epic contest which left Shane showing no signs of ring rust . Alex then travlled to India at the end of 2008 where he reportedly signed Indian Bodybuilding and TV star Varinder Singh to a contract to bring him to the UK and train to wrestle . Shane has said in interviews that he plans to use Singh as a spring board to bring wrestling to India . Shane fly home to the UK in early 2009 and made a shocking return to IPW : UK winning the annual " Extreme Measures " tournament . He then won the IPW : UK title from Iestyn Rees on April 18 . Claiming to still be retired , Shane is not expected to wrestle much more after this match although has said never to rule out the odd cameo . In April 2009 Shane released his first book " Alex Shane ' s Guide to Pro Wrestling - Volume One " . The book is a collection of his monthly articles in Fighting Spirit Magazine . Personal life . After retiring from active wrestling , Shane began a career as a life coach , seeking to incorporate self - help thinking into wrestling training , primarily in the form of seminar tours . Alex has stated in interviews that he is writing a self - help book ( working title " The Unholy Babble " ) using many of the lessons he has learned from his 14 plus years of wrestling himself , self - promotion , media appearances and teaching . He continues to run specialist training seminars around the UK and writes monthly articles for " Fighting Spirit " magazine for young wrestlers about getting the most out of your wrestling career by utilizing a variety of self - help and spiritual modalities . Alex dated Katarina Waters and also Georgina Bailey who famously made British headlines after her fling with Russell Brand . Shane appeared in tabloids defending Bailey and challenging Brand to a wrestling match he Shane later revealed that someone close to him had suggested that it would make a good story for Comic Relief and there was no real intent behind it .