Alex Hammerstone Shares How He Overcame Doubts About Competing In Iconic TNA Match

Alex Hammerstone ultimately made it through one of TNAâ€s signature matches, but he wasnâ€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 heâ€s been part of, noting that heâ€s never done anything too extreme. However, he did recall being puzzled by how he would fare in TNAâ€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 wasnâ€t sure how it would all work.

“I remember looking at all these videos being like, ‘I donâ€t know how this going to work.†And then I remember looking at the ring before the show [thinking], ‘I donâ€t even know if I can climb across that rope. I donâ€t know if I am going to fall right off. I donâ€t know if the truss is gonna break.†But, I didnâ€t go in the ring and go play with it and try to calculate. I just said, ‘You know what? When the bell rings, Iâ€m going to go out there.â€

Did anyone try to persuade him to test out the structure?

Hammerstone said some people approached him to test it out, but he didnâ€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 donâ€t know. I just donâ€t care to. Iâ€m just like, because what are the pros to that? If I go up there, and I climb it, and Iâ€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, Iâ€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 shouldnâ€t try this.†Itâ€s like, I just pretend that the best is going to work out for me.†   

Hammerstone agreed that itâ€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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