Alex Shane

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Alex Spilling
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Alex Shane LX Blade
Billed height	6 ft 5 in (196 cm)
Billed weight	290 lb (132 kg)
Born	November 15, 1979 London
Trained by	Andre Baker
Debut	1995

Alex Spilling is a retired English professional wrestler who is best known by his ring name "The Showstealer" Alex Shane. Though retired from wrestling, Spilling still works with the Frontier Wrestling Alliance promotion in backstage roles with occasional in-ring appearances.

Contents 1 Career 2 In wrestling 3 Championships and accomplishments 4 References

[edit] Career

Alex Spilling began wrestling for the NWA Hammerlock promotion in 1995 under to tutalige of Hammerlock owner Andre Baker. After several years with the promotion, Spilling along with others fell out with Baker and left the to work for a new TV company UWA. During his time in UWA, Spilling formed a tag team with Guy Thunder and developed much of his in-ring ability and mic skills as well as creating his heel persona, Alex Shane.^[1]

During this time, Shane was first approached by the newly revived Frontier Wrestling Alliance promotion. He and Guy Thunder worked the companies second show and it wasn't long after this that FWA booker Elisar Cabrera realised Shane's potential; ensuring Shane found major success in the promotion as its top wrestler and British Heavyweight Champion.

Shane's success in the company continued and saw him open his own wrestling school, Capital City Pro Wrestling. CCPW became the official London home of the FWA, who allowed Shane to become more involved in the company, where instead of payment he got the chance to help Elisar Caberra run the first-ever FWA London show at Barking, Essex in 2001. During this time, Shane left CCPW made appearances in a newly formed promotion known as Universal Championship Wrestling, it was here Shane was repackaged as LX Blade^[2] a cartoon type robot character. The character was abandoned when the promotion folded after just two shows.

While promoting his CCPW venture, Shane to appeared as a guest on the talkSPORT radio show hosted by Tommy Boyd. Shane would soon become a regular co-host and with his knowledge of wrestling soon made the previously loosely based wrestling show the UK's first fully fledged national wrestling radio show which often saw angles being played out within the show including one that involved Shane attacking Boyd and being forcefully removed from the show.

During his time on the radio show in 2001, Shane returned to the FWA under his most successful persona "The Showstealer." Shane also worked alongside Boyd to help FWA produce one of its largest early shows, FWA Revival in 2002, which was broadcast on national TV. However, a falling out with Boyd would see Shane leave the radio show and Boyd attempt to buy out 75% of the shares of the FWA, including Shane's. This led to a controversial incident during a match in the FWA on March 22, 2002, where Shane faced Karl Krammer a suffered a serious neck injury. It is wildly disputed whether or not the injury was legitimate or in fact a work to allow Alex to leave FWA due to the fall out with Tommy Boyd and his business partners who intended to sale Boyd the shares.

However, before the sale could go through Boyd was relieved from his Talksport radio duties. With out this major platform to promote FWA the sale to Boyd was put on hold. Due to popular demand, Shane was soon brought into to replace the radio programme with a brand new show, Wrestle-Talk. It wasn't long before Shane used this new position and power to buy out his former business partners and become the majority share holder of FWA.

From this point in October 2002, Shane, alongside his new business partner and mentor Dino Scarlo, set out to develop his new vision for the future of FWA, producing larger shows and gaining more income from higher ticket prices to allow him to involve more international talent. Along with the success outside the ring, Shane teamed with Ulf Herman to defeat the UK Pitbulls and win the FWA Tag Team Titles upon his return on October 25, 2002. Not before long Shane turned on Herman dropping his babyface image to become one of the top heels in the UK. After become heel, Shane left the tag team matches to once again enter into singles competition for the first time in several years.

One of Shane's most notable in-ring FWA moment was with boxer Danny Williams, during an angle that nearly got out of hand, which started when Alex Shane informed the crowd that Danny's agent had banned him from taking part in any sort of wrestling angle in the company, Alex Shane then claimed he was going to grab as much publicity as he can and began to insult Danny Williams and his entourage, Williams genuinely appeared to lose his cool when, as he walked away, Shane called him a homosexual and spat at his teenage brother-in-law, inciting a pull-apart brawl. The worked fracas, that nearly ended up in disaster at the FWA show made it to the Daily Mirror newspaper and national news programmes.

Shane would feud with Jack Xavier, Steve Corino and Doug Williams, and once again become British Heavyweight Champion at theBritish Uprising 3 event and later pick up a second tag title reign while still being the companies managing director and booker as well as also writing and directing the FWA's TV show until March 28, 2005 when he deciding to sell his shares.

On May 29th 2005, while still FWA British Heavyweight Champion, Alex Shane won the WAW British Championship from "The Dark Angel" Ashe in a cross promotional show called "May Mayhem 3" between WAW and FWA in Bournemouth, Dorset. Long time protégé and friend Hade Vansen pinned Joe Legend to win The Champions Series Final at FWA New Frontiers on February 5, 2006 at Broxbourne Civic Hall to become the new FWA British Heavyweight Champion. Vanson took Alex Shane’s title in the five-way main event (which aside from Vanson, Shane and Legend, also featured "The Phoenix" Jody Fleisch and "The Wonderkid" Jonny Storm) with help from the Showstealer’s (kayfabe) ex-girlfriend Nikita. Shane would later relinquish his converted WAW British title to allow himself once again to concentrate more on the backstage workings of the business.

Shanes influences would not only be seen in the UK, Shane would also be involved with the American promotion, Ring of Honor, becoming its Head of European marketing and promotion. This position gave Alex Shane the chance to once again produce a talent agreement between ROH and the FWA, making FWA the official and sole agent for any UK wrestlers wishing to go over to the promotion.

Alex Shane would also team up with NOAH's European ambassador and fellow British wrestler Doug Williams to organise the King of Europe Tournament.^[3]

Shane's wrestling influences would be seen once again after British promotion 1 Pro Wrestling went into liquidation a week before they were due to host the UK debut of Japanese wrestling legend The Great Muta. With the show cancelled and less than a week left until Muta was due to arrive, Shane jumped in and, aided by Len Davies and former 1PW owner Steven Gauntley, attempted to negotiate the appearance of Mutoh and other All Japan Pro Wrestling stars, including Kikutaro, Kazunari Nosawa and Akira Raijin, on the January tapings of Len Davies' Real Quality Wrestling^[4]. A day later, RQW confirmed the success of the negotiations in a press release.^[5].

[edit] In wrestling

• Finishing and signature moves

• One Night Stand (Fireman's carry driver)
• Check Up From The Neck Up (Facebreaker into a cutter)
• Two handed choke bomb
• Shanesation Kick (Running big boot)

• Nicknames

• "The Showstealer" Alex Shane

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

• Frontier Wrestling Alliance

• FWA British Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• FWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Ulf Herman (1), and Stevie Knight (1)

• The Wrestling Alliance

• TWA British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• World Association of Wrestling

• WAW British Heavyweight Championship (1 times)

• British Championship Wrestling

• BCW Heavyweight Championship (1 times)

• Capital City Pro Wrestling

• CCPW Championship (1 time)

• Other Titles

• GPW British Championship (1 time)
• OPWO World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• RAMWA Soutern Area Championship (1 time)

[edit] References