Alex Hammerstone ultimately made it through one of TNA’s signature matches, but he wasn’t sure how it was going to go at first.
Hammerstone recently spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard. During the conversation, Hammerstone was reflecting on some of the “crazier” matches he’s been part of, noting that he’s never done anything too extreme. However, he did recall being puzzled by how he would fare in TNA’s Ultimate X match.
Hammerstone, currently signed with MLW, was with TNA in 2024. There, he competed in the Ultimate X match at TNA Emergence in August 2024. Hammerstone said he tried to mentally prepare as much as he could, but wasn’t sure how it would all work.
“I remember looking at all these videos being like, ‘I don’t know how this going to work.’ And then I remember looking at the ring before the show [thinking], ‘I don’t even know if I can climb across that rope. I don’t know if I am going to fall right off. I don’t know if the truss is gonna break.’ But, I didn’t go in the ring and go play with it and try to calculate. I just said, ‘You know what? When the bell rings, I’m going to go out there.’
Did anyone try to persuade him to test out the structure?
Hammerstone said some people approached him to test it out, but he didn’t want to slip and fall, and have that doubt in his head during the match.
“Plenty of people asked me to try it out. I don’t know. I just don’t care to. I’m just like, because what are the pros to that? If I go up there, and I climb it, and I’m like, ‘Oh, this is really easy. I feel more confident about this. Cool.’ If I go out there and I slip off, now, I have that in the back of my head that I might fall off. So, I’d rather just go out there and… We are doing it live, I am going to try. But if I am sitting there thinking, ‘Oh, well, I fell off earlier, so maybe I shouldn’t try this.’ It’s like, I just pretend that the best is going to work out for me.”
Hammerstone agreed that it’s pretty easy to keep thoughts of self-doubt out of your head if you never put them there in the first place.
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