Shane Thorne

Shane Veryzer (born 24 September 1985) is an Australian professional wrestler, who is currently working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Shane Haste as a member of The Mighty Don't Kneel.

He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring names Shane Thorne and Slapjack.

He is also known for his work in Pro Wrestling Noah, where, as part of The Mighty Don't Kneel with partner Mikey Nicholls, he is a former two-time GHC Tag Team Champion.

He also competed for Ring of Honor (ROH) and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) in the United States.

Shane Veryzer was born on 24 September 1985 in Perth, Western Australia.

Veryzer started training at the Dynamite Factory, the wrestling school of Explosive Pro Wrestling (EPW).

His debut match took place at the Uprising event on 22 February 2003 in a four-way match under the Shane Haste ring name.

He won the EPW Heavyweight Championship once and the EPW Tag Team Championship twice.

After working all over the Australian continent, he moved to California, United States, and started working for independent wrestling promotions in the US, such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and World League Wrestling (WLW).

On 23 February 2011, Haste made his debut in Pro Wrestling Noah as he had a tryout match against his teammate Mikey Nicholls.

A month after the try-out match, both men started to work full-time with the Japanese promotion.

On 7 July, Haste and Nicholls, known together as The Mighty Don't Kneel (TMDK), won the GHC Tag Team Championship after they defeated Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka.

After starting out in Noah, Haste returned to the United States and compete on Ring of Honor (ROH) in February 2012.

He and Nicholls won the Rise and Prove Tournament, defeating two other teams to qualify for a match against The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe).

At the Showdown in the Sun iPPV on 30 March, Haste and Nicholls lost to The Briscoe Brothers in a Proving Ground match.

Also in February 2012, Haste and Nicholls wrestled television matches for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CWFH).

Also in March 2012, Haste and Nicholls started wrestling for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), during their stint there, they were defeated in a title match for the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship by Jessie Godderz and Rudy Switchblade.

At the end of 2013, the Tokyo Sports magazine named Haste and Nicholls the tag team of the year, making them the first foreign team to win the award since Stan Hansen and Vader in 1998.

They lost the title to Maybach Taniguchi and Takeshi Morishima on 25 January 2014.

On 20 December 2014, Haste and Nicholls made their debut for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), when they, along with Naomichi Marufuji, were revealed as Toru Yano's tag team partners at Wrestle Kingdom 9 on 4 January 2015.

At the event, the four defeated Suzuki-gun (Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer, Shelton X Benjamin, and Takashi Iizuka) in an eight-man tag team match.

They regained the title from Dangan Yankies (Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura) on 10 January 2015.

They lost the title to K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr.. and Lance Archer) on 11 February.

On 28 December, Noah announced that Haste and Nicholls would leave the promotion following their contracts expiring at the end of the year.

In June 2015, Haste and Nicholls took part in a WWE tryout camp.

He signed with WWE in 2016 and was assigned to the NXT brand, where he was given the Shane Thorne ring name.

On 11 February 2016, Noah announced that Haste and Nicholls would return to the promotion the following month to take part in a five-show-long farewell tour, entitled "Departure to the World".

Their final Noah match took place on 10 March and saw them defeat Naomichi Marufuji and Mitsuhiro Kitamiya.

In February 2016, it was reported that Haste and Nicholls were scheduled to join WWE's NXT brand following their Noah farewell tour.

On 25 March 2016, WWE confirmed the signings of both Haste and Nicholls, and they began training at the WWE Performance Center, while working for the promotion's developmental branch NXT.

On 19 May, Haste and Nicholls were renamed Shane Thorne and Nick Miller, respectively, while TMDK was renamed TM-61.

They debuted on 25 May episode of NXT, losing to Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa.

In October, TM-61 entered the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament, in which they defeated Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli in the first round, Austin Aries and Roderick Strong (Thorne defeated Strong in a singles match, due to Aries being unable to wrestle through injury) in the quarterfinals, and SAnitY in the semifinals.

At NXT TakeOver: Toronto, TM-61 lost in the finals to The Authors of Pain.

Thorne then had knee surgery in January 2017, which was expected to sideline him for seven to nine months.

Thorne returned from injury on 14 September.

In early 2020, Thorne debuted on Raw, and in August of that year was repackaged as Slapjack, a mask wearing member of Retribution.

Following the stable's split, he reverted to his previous ring name and was moved to SmackDown.

Despite this, he was only limited to dark matches and was released from the promotion in November 2021.

He then began working for NJPW's American subsidiary, where TMDK were reformed as a stable, with Jonah as the leader.