In a post on his official X/Twitter account, WWE SmackDown superstar Alex Shelley thanked fans for their support following the Motor City Machine Guns’ WWE debut on last week’s episode of WWE SmackDown.

“I want to express gratitude to everybody that supported me throughout not just my pro wrestling career, but my life and that’s friends, and that’s co-workers, and that’s family. You don’t necessarily have to be a blood relative to be family, but we did it.

Now, I’m a WWE superstar. To be able to verbalize that has a very, very deep and profound sense of power here, and again, I couldn’t have done it without the support of so many people, so many different points of my life.

I think whether you believe in the creator, or fate, or the universe, I have to be one of the most blessed people out there to have come this far and to be able to accomplish that goal, and now the hard work begins, but again, thank you so so much, I truly mean that and I couldn’t have done it without you.

Thanks for pushing me along and picking me up when I was going to fall, and encouraging me and never letting me give up and gosh, here we go.”