Post by Super Machine on Apr 10, 2008 16:03:58 GMT -5
I thought I would post this I will attending this show In Detroit next Friday the 18th and there was some Interesting shit talking building up this match.
Jimmy Jacobs and Alex Shelley have always been ahead of the curve. Their in ring moveset, characters and promos have always set the tone. Now in the era of the 'net they have heated up their rivalry on Myspace. It will come to a head on April 18th in Detroit when Jacobs & Tyler Black of The Age Of The Fall battle The Motor City Machine Guns of Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin in the "Tag Wars 2008" main event (tickets now on sale at http://www.ROHwrestling.com).
The history between Jacobs and Shelley started as each learned their craft in the Detroit area. They drove countless hours to various independent promotions together. They even rode over 12 hours to Philadelphia for a pre-show match at a Ring Of Honor event in an effort to earn a job. From there they won spots as a tag team until Shelley split up the duo and joined Generation Next.
Their in ring rivalry grew with several brutal bouts. However, soon their careers would take separate paths. As each matured they saw their stars shine in different promotions. Jacobs would win the ROH World Tag Team Titles on three occasions. Now Jacobs has reached a new career pinnacle as the leader of The Age Of The Fall with Tyler Black as his tag team partner.
Meanwhile, Alex Shelley formed an enormously successful tag team with Chris Sabin. Shelley & Sabin grew in popularity in the United States while winning titles in Japan for Zero-One. They even returned to ROH last year for a bout against Jay & Mark Briscoe that many fans called the match of the year. Jacobs and Shelley may not have crossed paths in recent years, but each of them have grown up on parallel paths in the wrestling industry.
When word reached Jacobs that Shelley & Sabin were making a special appearance for ROH on 4/18 in Detroit and 4/19 in Chicago, he reached for his keyboard. Jacobs wants those parallel paths to intersect and he figured there was no better place than where it all started for Jacobs and Shelley together- Detroit. Jacobs posted the following message on his Myspace:
"On to something else that is of personal significance to me, Alex Shelley makes his big Ring of Honor return on April 18 in Detroit. My real hatred for him is multi-layered. Our history is well documented, but in recent years our paths have diverged. While he parades himself as a national tv sell out, I have started a grass roots campaign, not in search of fame and money, but a goal to make a legitimate change in this world one person at a time. While he uses his tv time to simply feed his ego, I have touched people's lives in a very real way from the bottom up. And all that aside, I do have so many unsettled personal problems with him. It was a feud that began in 2002 in Detroit, and to this day, has never gotten any resolve in my mind. Beyond that, many people seem to believe that along with his tag team partner Chris Sabin, that the Murder/Motor City Machine Guns are the best tag team in the world. Well, while they failed to defeat the Briscoes in 2007, Tyler Black and I were the team successful to finally dethrone them to become the Ring of Honor world tag team champions. With so much to prove to the world, to society, to myself, to this business, to the fans, and to Alex Shelley, I'm making a campaign to bring our feud back to where it started. In Detroit, Michigan, the home of the Machine Guns, I'm putting the offer on the table to Ring of Honor as a company and to the Murder City Machine Guns to have the match... MCMG vs AOTF." - blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2505822&blogID=365367608
Alex Shelley was quick to respond via his Myspace:
"There’s a saying, an old one like they always are, that implies life is circular. Or in short, karma is legit.
In 2002, two young men with a love for pro wrestling started at square one and traveled countless miles, made tons of sacrifices, and did everything they could to assure that they’d have a fighting chance in the strange and completely unfair world of pro wrestling. And they did it by beating the s*** out of each other across the midwest.
Flash forward to 2008. Two young-ish men are now on very, very different paths in very different walks of life. While both have done pretty well for themselves, and God willing, will do even better in the future, what lays in front of us are completely different people than the ones who started their journey. That was inevitable and expected. But this? Oi vey.
So the way I look at it is Jimmy just bought glass real estate and I invested in a motherf****** quarry. I’m reading the words sellout, grassroots, hatred, and ego. You know, for a guy who used to be my best friend in the business, which are very hard to come by, you sure did turn into a bit of a c***. I know all about you and Tyler Black and Necro and what you guys have done, but give me a break man. Like, the beautiful thing about wrestling is that you can be anything you want, you can turn your personality up to 11, and low and behold, when you guys do it, you come off like chubby goth nerds who tried to OD on aspirin while listening to Robert Smith albums and wearing long sleeve shirts to cover up cries for attention disguised as poorly attempted suicides. Here’s a tip for free: Take your blade down the road, not across the street, if you pick up what I’m laying down. And you’ve touched peoples lives? You’re so full of s*** your eyes are brown.
(Disclaimer: No offense to any Robert Smith fans/goth kids out there. I like a couple Cure songs too. Please keep buying merchandise. Kthnxbye.)
Okay, petty jokes aside, I can admit you and Tyler are one helluva team, especially when you consider we’ve locked horns before. Jimmy got a helluva lot better since we last wrestled each other, and Tyler’s one of the brightest young wrestlers anywhere, not that he needs my endorsement. His talent speaks far louder than anything I could communicate.
I do agree with you, I can’t think of a better place for this match to take place if ROH decides to let such a contest occur. You keep this in mind though, this is our return to a company who did a helluva a lot for my career. This is our chance to wrestle in front of the most appreciative audience in pro wresting. This is our homecoming. You feel free to prove whatever you want to whomever you want. You just remember the saying about life being circular, what goes ’round, comes ’round.
We’re right back to square one. See you in the D." - blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=189083&blogID=367870123
The stage has been set. Everything will come full circle. It will be The Age Of The Fall vs. The Motor City Machine Guns on April 18th in Detroit. It will be the main event. This will be epic.
Jimmy Jacobs and Alex Shelley have always been ahead of the curve. Their in ring moveset, characters and promos have always set the tone. Now in the era of the 'net they have heated up their rivalry on Myspace. It will come to a head on April 18th in Detroit when Jacobs & Tyler Black of The Age Of The Fall battle The Motor City Machine Guns of Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin in the "Tag Wars 2008" main event (tickets now on sale at http://www.ROHwrestling.com).
The history between Jacobs and Shelley started as each learned their craft in the Detroit area. They drove countless hours to various independent promotions together. They even rode over 12 hours to Philadelphia for a pre-show match at a Ring Of Honor event in an effort to earn a job. From there they won spots as a tag team until Shelley split up the duo and joined Generation Next.
Their in ring rivalry grew with several brutal bouts. However, soon their careers would take separate paths. As each matured they saw their stars shine in different promotions. Jacobs would win the ROH World Tag Team Titles on three occasions. Now Jacobs has reached a new career pinnacle as the leader of The Age Of The Fall with Tyler Black as his tag team partner.
Meanwhile, Alex Shelley formed an enormously successful tag team with Chris Sabin. Shelley & Sabin grew in popularity in the United States while winning titles in Japan for Zero-One. They even returned to ROH last year for a bout against Jay & Mark Briscoe that many fans called the match of the year. Jacobs and Shelley may not have crossed paths in recent years, but each of them have grown up on parallel paths in the wrestling industry.
When word reached Jacobs that Shelley & Sabin were making a special appearance for ROH on 4/18 in Detroit and 4/19 in Chicago, he reached for his keyboard. Jacobs wants those parallel paths to intersect and he figured there was no better place than where it all started for Jacobs and Shelley together- Detroit. Jacobs posted the following message on his Myspace:
"On to something else that is of personal significance to me, Alex Shelley makes his big Ring of Honor return on April 18 in Detroit. My real hatred for him is multi-layered. Our history is well documented, but in recent years our paths have diverged. While he parades himself as a national tv sell out, I have started a grass roots campaign, not in search of fame and money, but a goal to make a legitimate change in this world one person at a time. While he uses his tv time to simply feed his ego, I have touched people's lives in a very real way from the bottom up. And all that aside, I do have so many unsettled personal problems with him. It was a feud that began in 2002 in Detroit, and to this day, has never gotten any resolve in my mind. Beyond that, many people seem to believe that along with his tag team partner Chris Sabin, that the Murder/Motor City Machine Guns are the best tag team in the world. Well, while they failed to defeat the Briscoes in 2007, Tyler Black and I were the team successful to finally dethrone them to become the Ring of Honor world tag team champions. With so much to prove to the world, to society, to myself, to this business, to the fans, and to Alex Shelley, I'm making a campaign to bring our feud back to where it started. In Detroit, Michigan, the home of the Machine Guns, I'm putting the offer on the table to Ring of Honor as a company and to the Murder City Machine Guns to have the match... MCMG vs AOTF." - blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2505822&blogID=365367608
Alex Shelley was quick to respond via his Myspace:
"There’s a saying, an old one like they always are, that implies life is circular. Or in short, karma is legit.
In 2002, two young men with a love for pro wrestling started at square one and traveled countless miles, made tons of sacrifices, and did everything they could to assure that they’d have a fighting chance in the strange and completely unfair world of pro wrestling. And they did it by beating the s*** out of each other across the midwest.
Flash forward to 2008. Two young-ish men are now on very, very different paths in very different walks of life. While both have done pretty well for themselves, and God willing, will do even better in the future, what lays in front of us are completely different people than the ones who started their journey. That was inevitable and expected. But this? Oi vey.
So the way I look at it is Jimmy just bought glass real estate and I invested in a motherf****** quarry. I’m reading the words sellout, grassroots, hatred, and ego. You know, for a guy who used to be my best friend in the business, which are very hard to come by, you sure did turn into a bit of a c***. I know all about you and Tyler Black and Necro and what you guys have done, but give me a break man. Like, the beautiful thing about wrestling is that you can be anything you want, you can turn your personality up to 11, and low and behold, when you guys do it, you come off like chubby goth nerds who tried to OD on aspirin while listening to Robert Smith albums and wearing long sleeve shirts to cover up cries for attention disguised as poorly attempted suicides. Here’s a tip for free: Take your blade down the road, not across the street, if you pick up what I’m laying down. And you’ve touched peoples lives? You’re so full of s*** your eyes are brown.
(Disclaimer: No offense to any Robert Smith fans/goth kids out there. I like a couple Cure songs too. Please keep buying merchandise. Kthnxbye.)
Okay, petty jokes aside, I can admit you and Tyler are one helluva team, especially when you consider we’ve locked horns before. Jimmy got a helluva lot better since we last wrestled each other, and Tyler’s one of the brightest young wrestlers anywhere, not that he needs my endorsement. His talent speaks far louder than anything I could communicate.
I do agree with you, I can’t think of a better place for this match to take place if ROH decides to let such a contest occur. You keep this in mind though, this is our return to a company who did a helluva a lot for my career. This is our chance to wrestle in front of the most appreciative audience in pro wresting. This is our homecoming. You feel free to prove whatever you want to whomever you want. You just remember the saying about life being circular, what goes ’round, comes ’round.
We’re right back to square one. See you in the D." - blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=189083&blogID=367870123
The stage has been set. Everything will come full circle. It will be The Age Of The Fall vs. The Motor City Machine Guns on April 18th in Detroit. It will be the main event. This will be epic.
