Matt Bentley
Matthew Bentley ( born December 10, 1979 in Clinton, Iowa, USA, better known as Martyr, Matt Bentley and Michael Shane ) is a retired American professional wrestler and current musicians. He is a nephew of Shawn Michaels. Today, Bentley is the bassist for the band Lost in chaos.
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Wrestling career
Beginnings (1999-2001)
Bentley came through his uncle Shawn Michaels into the wrestling business. He coached several years in the wrestling school and made his debut in a 1999 Indy promotion under the name Michael Shane as a follow up to Shawn Michaels. From October 2000 to January 13, 2001 Bentley was employed by Extreme Championship Wrestling. Still in 2001, he earned his first title, the TWA Television Championship, which he was able to maintain 48 days, until he lost it to The Tornado.
2001-2004
After the closure of ECW Bentley ( MECW ) was committed in Main Event Championship Wrestling and was at their unique ECW Reunionveranstaltung MECW Light Heavyweight Champion. He became a member of the Stables " Group " in 2002, which with Samoa Joe, CW Anderson and Steve Corino was founded in the selfsame year in the League Wrestling Ring of Honor. This remained stable but without great success.
2003 Bentley approached for Major League Wrestling and took on 26 July for this promotion in a tournament, which was held in Orlando ( Florida): He went there with CM Punk as a tag team against Norman Smiley and Raven. In 2004 he was for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling committed where a Bentley Stable with name " New Franchises " founded and next to him and Shane Douglas and Traci included. It was an unsuccessful Stable, in 2004 failed on the one hand in a " Tag Team Title Tournament " already in the first round to Christopher Daniels and Low Ki and later with a " No. 1 contender match " for the tag team titles were also beaten. Between 2003 and 2004, Bentley was able to achieve with twice winning the NWA TNA X Title (now TNA X Division Championship ) for the first time greater success. His first reign became Michael Shane in a " Triple Threat Ultimate X Match" against Chris Sabin ( c ) and Frankie Kazarian. The title he lost in a second " Ultimate X Match" to Chris Sabin 2004. The second time, Shane won together with Kazarian an " Ultimate X Match" against the champion AJ Styles and both were declared then to double champions. 14 days later they lost their titles in a Gauntlet for the Gold match.
Name Change
In 2004, Bentley lost the name " Michael Shane " due to a name dispute to Mike Shane, who was employed in the competition league WWE. At first he called himself then Matt Bentley until he was given the name 2006 Maverick Matt.
2007 - today
Since 2007 he has held the Martyr gimmick. Short term he was active among others in Stable serotonin with Havok and Kaz leader Raven, which should be a new edition of Raven's Flock and build on past successes. However, Stable and after Kaz sought his fortune as a single wrestler, it finally broke apart flopped. In August 2007, the Treaty of Bentley with TNA expired and was not renewed. In 2008, he was in favor of a career as a musician his retirement from wrestling known. Since then, Matt Bentley plays bass in the band Lost in Chaos, inter alia, Opened for Sum 41 was.
Achievements
Title
- 2x TNA X Division Champion