Alex Shelley, the MCMG wrestler was injured at the recent Ring of Honor television taping event in New York, to the point where he was unable to finish to the match and had to be helped to the back. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Shelley suffered a concussion as well as several damaged teeth when he collided head to head with Frankie Kazarian in a six-man tag team match.
Shelley wrote on Twitter following the incident that he had “never been hit so hard in [his]life”, and that actual pieces of his teeth were left behind in his protective mouth guard. He hinted at a possibility of retirement in the future, noting that he had been pursuing physical therapy as a future career option, and wondered if he wasn’t “just being stubborn and not reading the signs.”
Shelley has been wrestling all around the world since 2002; he’s best known for his days in TNA, most notably being one half of the Motor City Machine Guns, alongside Chris Sabin. He is a former TNA X-Division Champion and has won the TNA Tag Team titles on several occasions, along with the Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling, winning the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championships three times with both Sabin and Kushida, as the Time Splitters.