Frankie Kazarian Talks His History With Ladder Matches, Recalls Undefeated Run That Started In 2007

Frankie Kazarian has a detailed history with ladder matches.

Throughout his career, Kazarian has competed in over 25 ladder matches across TNA, ROH, and AEW. Including stipulation matches like Full Metal Mayhem and Ultimate X, most of these matches have been tag team bouts, spotlighting Kazarian’s team with Christopher Daniels.

Speaking with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp for a new interview, Kazarian reflected on a period of time where he was undefeated in ladder matches.

“I appreciate you saying that. For a long time at TNA, I was on a pretty cool run of being undefeated in ladder matches for a long time. Starting with, I had one of my very favorite matches against Christian
Cage in 2007, a ladder match that kind of helped put me on the map as a top singles guy here in the company; with AJ Styles and with the Young Bucks, Christopher Daniels and just you name it. I’m known for, in terms of the word gimmick match, I’m kind of known as one of the Ultimate X guys because of course I was in the first one of those matches.”

Kazarian continued on and detailed his love of the ladder match, bringing up Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, and others as his inspirations.

“But ladder matches, I was always—in terms of specialty matches—I always enjoyed those because I’m of the generation that saw Razor and Shawn do the mainstream first one, and just was amazed and
mesmerized and then saw what the Hardyz and the Dudleyz and Edge & Christian brought that to and just tried to take what those gentlemen put in place and move it forward in our own creative direction. Look, I’m a traditionalist. I like a straight up singles match, but give me a good ladder match, straight up ladder match with two very talented wrestlers and that can steal the show on any card. I’ve been blessed to have a lot of really cool opponents and be in some really good scenarios when it comes to ladder matches. I’ve also lost a lot of blood and gotten banged up quite a bit because they are very dangerous. I had a cool run of ladder matches, especially early on in TNA here.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Kazarian recalled surprising his wife, Traci Brooks, with her TNA Hall Of Fame induction announcement. Fans can check out Kazarian’s full comments by clicking here.

Fans can check out Fightful’s full interview with Frankie Kazarian in the video linked at the top of this article.