[5] He was also a member of The Group faction in ROH, with Samoa Joe and C. W. Anderson, but they were forced to disband after losing to The Prophecy at Night of Grudges on June 14, 2003.

In an effort to eliminate Styles from the X Division, Bentley and Traci formed a tag team with Kazarian (informally known by the portmanteau of their last names, Shazarian).

Traci quietly left Bentley in 2005 to become an assistant for TNA Director of Authority Dusty Rhodes, and later joined with Chris Sabin.

[1] All TNA DVD releases featuring matches with Bentley as "Michael Shane" have had the on-screen graphics altered and commentary completely replaced to reflect the name change.

On a February 2006 edition of Xplosion, Bentley and his partner Lance Hoyt had some miscommunication during their tag team against The Diamonds in the Rough.

[13] As part of the new group Bentley's name was changed to Martyr, who along with Kaz and Havok (Devine) portrayed a strange rocker type look and would not win a lot of matches - as a matter of fact, even if they won, Raven would come out, make them get on their knees and beat them with a Kendo stick (as part of a system dubbed "torture breeds success").

On April 4, 2008, Bentley made an appearance on Friday Night SmackDown in a squash match, losing to the debuting Vladimir Kozlov.

[14] Following his WWE appearance, Bentley temporarily left wrestling in order to create a band named "Lost in Chaos" with his friends.

[16][17] On January 12, 2013, Bentley took part in the taping of TNA's One Night Only: X-Travaganza special (aired on April 5, 2013), competing in a seven-man Xscape match, which was won by Christian York.

[18] On September 5, 2015, Bentley made his Global Force Wrestling debut defeating Kevin Matthews and Mark Sterling in a three-Way match as part of the GFW Grand Slam Tour.

[19] 1Shane and Frankie Kazarian were declared co-champions after defeating AJ Styles in an Ultimate X match at the weekly pay-per-view #104 by grabbing the belt at the same time.