Alex Shelley

**Patrick Martin** (born May 23, 1983), is an American retired 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 **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.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ *Automatic Midnight* / *WA4* (Over-the-shoulder back-to-belly piledriver)
	+ *Border City Stretch* (Chickenwing over the shoulder crossface)
	+ Frog splash
	+ *Shelley Clutch* (Modified arm wrench inside cradle)
	+ *Shellshock* (Swinging reverse STO)
	+ *Sliced Bread #2* (Backflip inverted facelock drop)
	+ STO

* **Signature moves**
	+ Backpack stunner
	+ Diving double foot stomp
	+ Diving hurricanrana
	+ Diving kneeling jawbreaker
	+ Double knee backbreaker
	+ Enzuigiri
	+ *Golden Gate Swing* (Swinging fisherman suplex)
	+ *It Came From Japan* (Straight jacket scoop brainbuster)
	+ *It Came From Japan II* (Cross-legged fisherman buster)
	+ Reverse STO, into the turnbuckles
	+ Running high knee strike, from the apron
	+ Running double knee strike, to a cornered opponent
	+ Snap STO
	+ Stretch plum
	+ Single knee facebreaker
	+ Single leg Boston crab
	+ Spinning headlock elbow drop
	+ Springboard moonsault
	+ Springboard tornado DDT
	+ Suicide dive
	+ Superkick
	+ *Skull Fuck* / *Total Nonstop Alex* (Push up facebuster)
	+ Tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown
	+ Tombstone piledriver, sometimes transitioned into a wheelbarrow facebuster
	+ Thrust kick, while diving

* **Managers**
	+ Captain New Japan
	+ Chris Sabin
	+ Daizee Haze
	+ Goldy Locks
	+ Hiroshi Tanahashi
	+ Jamie D
	+ Johnny Devine
	+ Kevin Nash
	+ KUSHIDA
	+ Prince Nana

* **Nicknames**
	+ "@LX"
	+ "Baby Bear"
	+ "Made in Detroit"
	+ "The Next"
	+ "The Paparazzi Machine"
	+ "The Prodigy"
	+ "The Prospect"
	+ "The Student of the Game"
	+ "Talent on Loan from God"
	+ "The Technical Messiah"
	+ "Total Nonstop Alex"

* **Entrance themes**
	+ **Independent circuit**
		- "Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll?" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
		- "Six Barrel Shotgun" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
		- "Cochise" by Audioslave
		- "The Clap" by The Unicorns
	+ **Ring of Honor**
		- "Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll?" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
		- "Six Barrel Shotgun" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
		- "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" (Instrumental) by Kanye West
		- "Interstellar Overdrive" by Melvins
		- "Drugs" (Instrumental) by Lil' Kim
		- "Next Go Round" by Yonosuke Kitamura
		- "Beautiful Disaster" by 311 (used as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns)
		- "Six Barrel Shotgun" (Edit) by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (used as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns)
		- "Upset Army" by Christian Fitness
		- "All Ghosts to Medicine Counter Four" by Christian Fitness
	+ **Combat Zone Wrestling**
		- "It Came from Japan" by The Von Bondies
		- "Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll?" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
		- "Six Barrel Shotgun" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
		- "C’mon C’mon" by The Von Bondies
	+ **Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / IMPACT Wrestling**
		- "Pledged" by Dale Oliver
		- "Paparazzi / Up Yours" by Dale Oliver
		- "1967" by Dale Oliver (used as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns)
		- "Party with the Motorcity" by Dale Oliver (used as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns)
		- **"Motorcity"** by AD/AM (used as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns)
		- "Motorcity" (Remix) by AD/AM (used as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns)
		- **"Motor City" (w/ "KUSHIDA Makes You Rock" Intro)** by AD/AM (used as a member of Time Machine)
		- **"KUSHIDA Makes You Rock"** by GEEKS (used as a member of the Time Splitters)
	+ **New Japan Pro-Wrestling**
		- "Next Go Round" by Yonosuke Kitamura
		- "Next Go Round" (Omae wa Mo Shindeiru Version) by May's
		- "KUSHIDA Makes You Rock" by GEEKS (used as a member of the Time Splitters)
	+ **All Elite Wrestling**
		- "Motorcity" by AD/AM (used as a member of the Motor City Machine Guns)

## Championships and accomplishments

* **All American Wrestling**
	+ AAW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chris Sabin
* **Border City Wrestling**
	+ BCW Can-Am Television Championship (1 time)
* **Combat Zone Wrestling**
	+ CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* **Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre**
	+ International Gran Prix (2008)
* **Great Lakes Wrestling**
	+ GLW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
* **Insane Wrestling Federation**
	+ IWF Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
* **Maryland Championship Wrestling**
	+ MCW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
* **New Japan Pro-Wrestling**
	+ IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Chris Sabin (1) and KUSHIDA (2)
	+ Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Chris Sabin
	+ Super Jr. Tag Tournament (2012) – with KUSHIDA
* **NWA Midwest**
	+ NWA Midwest X Division Championship (1 time)
* **Ontario Championship Wrestling**
	+ OCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with R.C. Cross
* ***Pro Wrestling Illustrated***
	+ Ranked **#32** of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the *PWI 500* in 2009
	+ PWI Tag Team of the Year (2010) – with Chris Sabin
* **Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max**
	+ NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chris Sabin
	+ Zero1-Max United States Openweight Championship (1 time)
* **Ring of Honor**
	+ ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chris Sabin
	+ Trios Tournament (2006) – with Abyss and Jimmy Rave
* **Smash Wrestling**
	+ Smash Wrestling Championship (1 time)
* **Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / IMPACT Wrestling**
	+ IMPACT / TNA World Championship (1 time)
	+ TNA X Division Championship (1 time)
	+ TNA / IMPACT World Tag Team Championship (3 times, current) – with Chris Sabin
	+ Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament (2005) – with Sean Waltman
	+ Paparazzi Championship Series (2006)
	+ World X Cup (2006) – with Chris Sabin, Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt
	+ Gauntlet for the Gold (2008 – Tag Team) – with Chris Sabin
	+ TNA X Division Championship Tournament (2009)
	+ TNA / IMPACT Year End Awards
		- Tag Team of the Year (2007) – with Chris Sabin
		- Men's Tag Team of the Year (2022) – with Chris Sabin
	+ Tenth Triple Crown Champion
* **UWA Hardcore Wrestling**
	+ UWA Lightweight Championship (2 times)
* **Westside Xtreme Wrestling**
	+ wXw World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
* **The Wrestling REVOLVER**
	+ REVOLVER Remix Championship (1 time, current)
* **Xtreme Intense Championship Wrestling**
	+ XICW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
	+ XICW Midwest Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
	+ XICW Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Jaimy Coxxx