{"id":49684,"date":"2019-07-01T23:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=49684"},"modified":"2019-07-05T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:59:44","slug":"alex-shelley-roh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/07\/01\/alex-shelley-roh\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tag Champ Returns To ROH (SPOILER)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday night during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rohwrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ring Of Honor<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0TV tapings in a sold out 2300 Arena of 2300 fans. During the tapings, <strong>Jay Lethal<\/strong> revealed in a promo how he felt about his loss to <strong>Matt Taven<\/strong> at the historic <em><strong>G1 Supercard Of Honor\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>at Madison Square Gardens over\u00a0<strong>WrestleMania\u00a0<\/strong>weekend.\u00a0Lethal expressed his disdain for losing and was going to work twice as hard to take back the title from Taven. Following that, Matt Taven soon made his way out to tell Lethal that his time was done being the Ring Of Honor World Champion and that everyone was living in the time of Taven. It was at this time when none other than <strong>Motor City Machine Guns<\/strong> member and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/07\/23\/motor-city-machine-gun-alex-shelley-announces-departure-from-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently retired performer<\/a>, <strong>Alex Shelley<\/strong> made his return to Ring Of Honor.<\/p>\n<h2>Alex Shelley, Former Tag Champ Returns To Ring of Honor<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22649\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22649 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/RESEM45870shelley.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Shelley former Tag Champ\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/RESEM45870shelley.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/RESEM45870shelley-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: IMPACT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quickly getting to the point, Shelley said he wanted the winner between Taven and Lethal when they go head-to-head at <em><strong>ROH Manhattan Mayhem<\/strong><\/em> on July 20th, 2019 at the Manhattan Center&#8217;s legendary Hammerstein Ballroom. Shelley has not been in a Ring Of Honor ring since June 2nd, 2019 when he competed in a\u00a0ROH World Six Man Tag Team Title #1 Contenders Gauntlet featuring <strong>Chuckie T, Eli Isom &amp; Kenny Kin<\/strong>g defeating the team of Alex Shelley, <strong>Jonathan Gresham &amp; Leon St. Giovanni,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Brian Milonas, Silas Young &amp; The Beer City Bruiser,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Shane Taylor &amp; The Dawgs<\/strong> (Rhett Titus &amp; Will Ferrara) and <strong>SoCal Uncensored<\/strong> (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian &amp; Scorpio Sky). Shortly after the match, on July 22nd, 2018 through via his Twitter account, Shelley announced his retirement from the ring. He would be focusing on his studies while in school.\u00a0With Shelley back in the picture, time can only tell what future holds for the former multi-time tag champ.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_bottom \">\n<div>\n<div id=\"ac_363081\" class=\"ads9 cols3 rows3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday night during the Ring Of Honor\u00a0TV tapings in a sold out 2300 Arena of 2300 fans. 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