After Chris Bey's neck was injured during a match in TNA in October 2024, the wrestling world collectively came together to raise funds and awareness for the wrestler. Multiple wrestling personalities donated to a GoFundMe that was created to help the TNA star with his medical bills as he recovers.
FSW (Future Stars of Wrestling) put on a benefit show for Bey as well, entitled 'Benefit for Bey.' The main event of the evening saw Alex Hammerstone take on WWE wrestler Karrion Kross. After the match, which Kross won, Bey appeared at the show, stepping foot inside of the ring and hugging both men.
It was a memorable moment for the talent involved, and for the fans who got to witness it live.
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For Alex Hammerstone, in particular, it was one of the most important moments of his career. That's what Hammerstone told Sean Ross Sapp with Fightful, during an interview to promote his upcoming match against Satoshi Kojima at MLW Azteca Lucha. During the interview, Hammerstone said that the match, and the moment afterwards, will stay with him for a long time.
"Yeah, man. It was something like I always tell young guys when people are like, ‘What advice do you have for me in the business?’ They're all like bright eyed and I'm like. ‘You have to, when you have the great moments, when you have the magical moments, you have to recognize them and savor them and put that and store it in a memory and put it in a trophy case in your head and go admire it whenever you're feeling down.’ Because what we tend to do, it's the call the trophy effect where we don't keep any of our good trophies. We only keep the bad ones. We keep the ones where we messed up a match or someone says something crappy about us or whatever it is.
"That's definitely one of those nights that I'm like, ‘That goes in the good trophy case.’ Because just to get to be a part of that was a huge honor. Getting to be the main event, getting to be in there with Kross, getting to be in there once Bay came out at end of the show. It really felt like something I didn't even deserve, like a position I didn't deserve to be in. The fact that I really care about Chris, and he and I have been friends for a long time and our careers have intersected a lot over the years, especially in FSW. I was just like, ‘Wow.’ It was just such an honor. The match was great. The match was fun. I really had a great time, but none of that even mattered. Like it was just all the other stuff was what made that night so special. That was truly a, maybe, once in career type moment that I've locked away up here and am going to hold on to for a while," Hammerstone said.
Alex Hammerstone is facing Satoshi Kojima at MLW Azteca Lucha, happening on May 10 at the Cicero Stadium in Chicago, Illinois. The show will be streamed for free, live on YouTube.
That event takes place the same day as WWE Backlash. Fans can check out the full card for that event here.
Fightful has regular results of all MLW events in our results section. We will cover MLW Azteca Lucha as it occurs.
