Chris Sabin

Joshua Harter (born February 4, 1982), better known by his ring name Chris Sabin, is an American professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for Border City Wrestling (BCW), and quickly began competing for numerous other independent promotions.

He debuted in 2000 after four months training as "Chris Sabin", and began working for D'Amore's Border City Wrestling promotion and for independent promotions in Michigan.

In 2003, Sabin joined TNA, and quickly won the TNA X Division Championship, which he later unified with the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship.

Sabin made his debut for Ring of Honor on June 14, 2003, in a four-way match, won by Homicide.

Sabin joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in April 2003 and won the TNA X Division Championship just a month later on May 14 by defeating champion Amazing Red and Jerry Lynn in a three-way dance, after an assist from Triple X.

After the match Sabin turned heel and joined Triple X in Sports Entertainment Xtreme.

His reign ended after three months when he lost to Michael Shane in the first ever Ultimate X match on August 20.

On September 3, 2003, Sabin, now a face, won the 2003 Super X Cup, thus becoming the number one contender to the X Division Championship.

In 2004, he also wrestled for Ring of Honor.

He would wrestle for the company sporadically before leaving in February 2004.

He regained the X Division Championship on January 7, 2004, defeating Shane, Christopher Daniels and Low Ki in the second Ultimate X match.

He was stripped of the title on March 31, 2004, after a knee injury left him unable to defend it.

After returning from injury, Sabin took part in the World X Cup in May 2004, forming Team TNA with Jerry Lynn, Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper.

In 2005, Sabin wrestled in the UK at International Showdown for The Wrestling Channel's first anniversary at a sold out Coventry Skydome.

He would return on November 4, 2005, to unsuccessfully challenge Bryan Danielson for the ROH World Championship.

On August 25, 2006, at Korauken Hall's ZERO-1 MAX show, Sabin and Alex Shelley became ZERO-1 MAX International Lightweight Tag Team Champions, when they defeated former champions, Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita.

Throughout the next few years, Sabin competed mainly in TNA's X Division, until forming The Motor City Machine Guns with Alex Shelley in mid-2007.

Sabin won 14 total championships while with TNA.

He is a one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, a record 10-time X Division Champion, a three-time World Tag Team Champion with Alex Shelley, and during a talent exchange with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) a one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a former Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion, also with Shelley.

Sabin also previously wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he and Shelley became one-time Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions, and has also won numerous titles on the independent circuit.

Harter began training as a wrestler in Michigan at the NWA Great Lakes Pro Wrestling School.

After the school began experiencing difficulties, he travelled to Windsor, Ontario and completed his training under Scott D'Amore and "Amazing" N8 Mattson at the Can-Am Wrestling School.

He returned to ROH along with tag team partner Alex Shelley on March 30, 2007, following the Briscoe Brothers winning the ROH World Tag Team Championship.

The two challenged Jay Briscoe for a shot at the title on April 28 in Chicago, then attacked him after he accepted.

The two would ultimately lose the match and leave the company.

They also worked for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and challenged for the PWG World Tag Team Championship, although they never won.

In April 2008 Sabin and Shelley returned to ROH, losing to The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black) and defeating the Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark) on the 18 and 19 respectively.

In August 2008 Sabin and Shelley once again returned to ROH, wrestling Austin Aries and Bryan Danielson to a 25-minute time limit draw and losing to Kevin Steen and El Generico on the 1st and 2nd respectively.

They were scheduled to return to ROH on October 24 and 25, but were pulled from the events by TNA and replaced by The Latin American Xchange.

They held the titles for nearly two years, before dropping them to Minoru Fujita, and his new tag team partner, Takuya Sugawara, on April 6, 2008.

On January 4, 2009, Sabin and Shelley defeated No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) at New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom III to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

After three successful title defenses, two of which took place in TNA, Sabin and Shelley lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles to Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) on July 5, 2009, at New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Circuit 2009 New Japan Soul.

On February 13, 2010, Ring of Honor announced at their 8th Anniversary Show that the Motor City Machine Guns would return to the company on May 8 in New York City.

On May 8 the Motor City Machine Guns were defeated by the ROH World Tag Team Champions The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) via disqualification, when the Briscoe Brothers interfered in the match.

On November 8, 2010, New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced that the Motor City Machine Guns would be returning to the promotion the following month, competing at events on December 11 and 12.

On December 11 the Motor City Machine Guns were defeated by No Limit in their New Japan return match.

The following day they defeated Apollo 55 in the fourth match between the two teams.

On May 7, marked Sabin's return to NJPW as they announced him as a participant in the 2018 Best of the Super Juniors tournament.