It would certainly be a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object if Hammerstone took on Dijak.
Former MLW Champion Alex Hammerstone recently returned to the company and, with that, he brought along with him a myriad of potential matchups that fans could look forward to.
One of those matches is against Satoshi Kojima, which is happening on Saturday. In promotion of that match, Hammerstone spoke with Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp. During the interview, Hammerstone spoke about his return to the company, as well as all of the different wrestlers that he would like to face.
"It's crazy how much things have changed, but I've only been back once and it was a huge night being the Battle Riot, the 40 people I'm in a match with, trying to remember 20 different luchadors and then they put their masks on, and I'm like, ‘Oh, wait, which one were you?’ But the coolest part of it was to see that the landscape has changed a lot, because that's always exciting. The last thing I wanted was to go back and see all the same people doing all the same stuff, feeling like,
‘Okay, just gonna go back to playing the hits.’
"There's a lot of familiar faces and a lot of good talent that stayed there, which is awesome, and it's good to have friends. But at the same time like you said there's a lot of changeover. There's guys like Dijak, who I'd like to work with. There's guys like Riddle, Kojima is a first-time matchup. You got all the guys from CMLL. There's such a list of first times still to be done and then if we want to run back and revisit some of the stuff that worked in the past, that's there to do and
it's been long enough that it's gonna feel fresh all over again. I'm the type who I can't be somewhere very long before I start eyeing some championship belts. So I gotta be scanning the field for who's holding what and keep an eye out," Hammerstone said.
Hammerstone then named Dijak, specifically, as somebody he can't wait to work with.
"Yeah, actually my first match back from injury was against Dijak. We worked up in Canada. Like I said, that was the time where I was like, ‘I didn't know what my knee can do.’ I wasn't in great shape, but I had a lot of handicaps holding me back and even despite all that, it was a really fun, really good match. I'm just excited to see what we could do at 100%, tearing it up," he 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.
