Alex Hammerstone was recently interviewed by Steve Fall for WrestlingNewsCo to discuss several professional wrestling topics. Hammerstone talked about being the MLW World Champion, and wanting to take the title to new heights.

Here are the highlights:

Being MLW World Champion:

It’s definitely a huge responsibility. It’s one of those things, there’s like a joke in wrestling, like everybody wants to be the top guy until they’re the top guy. Because it does come with extra responsibilities, the extra main event matches, going on last, doing the press, doing the media, making sure you make extra time for fans. The eyes are on you, the scrutiny is extra heavy, but it’s a workload well-embraced by myself because it’s something I worked very hard for a very long time to get to this point. So I’m happy to do it.

Wanting to take the title to new heights:

I’m concerned with staying where I’m at right now, and it’s easy for me to have a goal because just before myself, we had Jacob Fatu as the world heavyweight champion. He was extremely dominant, he had an extremely long reign, so the obvious goal is to surpass his reign.

The obvious goal is to have a reign that is the most glorious, the most prestigious in the company’s history, to take the title to new heights, to take it to new places, to take it to a new level, and I’ve done a lot of those things, as far as traveling with the belt across different countries.

But now I’m at the top, and you got this extra level of scrutiny, everyone’s always waiting for you to have a bad match or something and say, ‘You’re boring, you’re overrated, you shouldn’t be there.’ So now the gears are turning in my head about what’s next with my own presentation. How do I want to keep things fresh? How do I want to continue to put a new spin on things? I think I’m gonna be able to do some exciting things in the new year.

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