Alex Hammerstone Contrasts MLW & Pro Wrestling NOAH, Says He’d Give Japan “Another Go”

In a recent interview with In The Weeds, Alex Hammerstone shared his thoughts on participating in Pro Wrestling NOAH’s N-1 Victory Tournament tour in comparison with his time spent as MLW World Heavyweight Champion (per Fightful). Hammerstone explained that the lifestyle and performance change was an abrupt adjustment and that he would be open to repeating the experience again in the future. You can find a highlight from Hammerstone and watch the complete interview below.

On the difference between wrestling for MLW and Pro Wrestling NOAH: “That’s a different experience for multiple reasons. Not only is it the style, you’re almost held to a different caliber over there. The fact that it’s a tour and wrestling night after night after night, you get on a bus, drive to a city, set up, warm up, wrestle, eat some food, get on the bus, drive to the next city, find a hotel, sleep a couple of hours, repeat. That lifestyle is a shock. It puts you in this warrior mode where wrestling is all you’re doing. That’s why I really enjoyed it. It was a time in my life that I hadn’t had something like that and it forced me into that hermit warrior style, and it was nice to do that for a little while. The caliber of talent over there. Everybody is so good and they take it all so seriously. I love that. It really kind of changed my style permanently, to a small degree, and even my outlook on wrestling. At this point, I’m ready to give it another go over there, get back over there at some point. It’s a bit of a commitment because tours over there are lasting quite a bit of time and I have a lot of stuff here at home that I have to take care of. I’m ready to give it another go over there.”