Pro wrestling star Alex Hammerstone focuses on winning MLW's Battle Riot as he fights through scrutiny

Alex Hammerstone volition effort to execute a feat successful Major League Wrestling (MLW) lone 1 different idiosyncratic has ever done successful the past of the promotion – triumph the Battle Riot lucifer twice.

Hammerstone won the 41-man lawsuit successful 2021. It was the 3rd iteration of the lucifer successful the company’s history. He entered the ringing arsenic the 35th rival and came retired connected top. Later that year, helium defeated Jacob Fatu for the MLW World Heavyweight Championship.

MLW announced Hammerstone arsenic the archetypal subordinate for Battle Riot VIII, which volition instrumentality spot connected Jan. 29 astatine Osceola Heritage Park successful Kissimmee, Florida.

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Alex Hammerstone returned to Major League Wrestling successful April 2025 astatine Battle Riot VII. (MLW)

"The extremity is to win," helium told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation connected Monday. "I won it erstwhile earlier and that was the lucifer that yet led to maine becoming MLW satellite champion. Obviously, that was a immense item of my career, and coming backmost to the company, I don’t privation to travel backmost and conscionable bent retired successful the mediate of the pack. I privation to rise backmost up to the apical and if the Battle Riot is the conveyance to get maine there, past each expectations are winning."

Hammerstone made a astonishment instrumentality to MLW astatine this year’s Battle Riot backmost successful April aft being with TNA Wrestling for a fewer years.

He called the assemblage absorption to his instrumentality "very gratifying."

"In wrestling, there’s ever a feeling of, ‘What person you done for maine lately?’ and ‘You’re lone arsenic bully arsenic your past match.’ Especially aft having specified a play of clip wherever I was faced with truthful galore struggles whether it was injuries and surgeries and being retired and feeling, astatine times, similar I didn’t get the accidental to contiguous myself the mode I would person liked to, determination was a batch of interest that fans wouldn’t person maine the aforesaid mode they did erstwhile I was determination before.

"So, to get that absorption and to spot the excitement and to consciousness that energy, it was precise gratifying successful that moment."

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Alex Hammerstone poses connected the ropes during a Major League Wrestling match. (MLW)

Hammerstone, 34, has been connected the pro wrestling circuit since 2013 and initially started his stint with MLW successful 2019 erstwhile helium helped signifier The Dynasty faction with Richard Holliday and Maxwell Jacob Friedman. He past competed astatine Pro Wrestling Noah successful Japan for a abbreviated clip and had a bully twelvemonth with TNA.

He’s had to woody with a fewer injuries that person halted immoderate of the momentum he’s built. The injuries not lone took clip distant from the ring, but created a unreality of uncertainty astir his quality to enactment healthy.

Hammerstone told Fox News Digital however he’s battled backmost to chopped done the sound and the scrutiny he’s faced to absorption connected the task astatine hand.

"It’s hard. There’s a batch of times implicit the years wherever it’s damn adjacent broke me, and possibly astatine times it has breached me, and I’ve had to enactment myself backmost together," helium said. "I can’t talk for everybody, but I cognize for maine specifically, the things that I’ve done, the things that I’ve fixed to the business, the things effort omniscient and the things I bash connected a regular basis, there’s these moments successful my time wherever I person this realization – I don’t deliberation anyone could perchance beryllium giving much than me.

"And erstwhile you person that benignant of content successful your ain effort system, that tends to truly solidify the content you person successful yourself to beryllium successful. So, nary substance however overmuch extracurricular sound oregon opinions oregon immoderate it is that mightiness effort to interruption me, conscionable knowing the benignant of resoluteness that I’ve continued to support for astir 15 years contempt it all, it truly builds a instauration that holds maine up to this day."

Hammerstone’s content strategy coupled with his in-ring prowess is wherefore he’s ripe to go the adjacent challenger for Mads Krule Krugger’s MLW World Heavyweight Championship.

And vice versa, it’s wherefore Hammerstone believes successful MLW arsenic a institution successful the pro wrestling industry.

Alex Hammerstone pushes Matt Riddle to the mat during a Major League Wrestling match. (MLW)

"It wouldn’t beryllium retired of the question to telephone them thing of an underdog promotion. They didn’t travel retired of the gross backed with a billionaire who was signing TV deals from time one. We’ve had a roster of guys, who astatine each antithetic times who person fought and clawed to carve retired a property and carve retired its ain spot wrong the industry.

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"I deliberation that’s thing that resonates with a batch of fans and that resonates for a batch of wrestlers. So, wrestlers bash person the accidental to spell to antithetic places, and MLW is 1 of them, it’s a spot worthy being astatine because, similar I said, they’ve managed to upwind a tempest and carve retired their ain niche successful the industry. Not lone fans respect that but wrestlers respect that and it’s inactive a precise prestigious spot to wrestle at."

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