On Thursday’s episode of Impact, Aldis teamed with Trinity, Deonna Purrazzo, and The Motor City Machine Guns in a five-on-five mixed tag team match. As Sabin was getting beaten down by their opponents, Aldis stretched his hand out for his partner to tag, but as Aldis points out, Sabin opted to tag in Shelley instead. Aldis emphasized that after he grounded Kenny King in the early portion of the match, he was never tagged back in again. As such, Aldis believes Shelley and Sabin were intentionally trying to make him an afterthought.

“[Sabin] has to tag in Alex Shelley, and he’s got to be a glory hound,” Aldis claimed. “He’s already the world champion. We’ve already given him this big to-do. Everybody’s hugging him backstage and, ‘Oh my God, you deserve it.’ Then he’s got to come and be a glory hound and take all the spoils in the tag team match too … I’m the number one contender for the [Impact] World Championship at Slammiversary. I’m here to make a huge difference for this company, and these guys are busy trying to make me an afterthought. I don’t take that very well. So I decided, enough’s enough.”

Before Shelley faces Aldis he’ll defend his title against the former champion, Steve Maclin, on June 30 during Impact’s Down Under tour in Australia.

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