Chris Sabin will defend the X-Division Championship against Lio Rush at Impact Wrestling’s Slammiversary 2023 pay-per-view event, and he spoke about his preparation for the match on a recent edition of the “Sunday Night’s Main Event” podcast. He said,
“Yeah, I mean I’m just going to watch Lio Rush matches, prepare and study. I have the same training program, I kind of do everything the same for whatever match it is, every match is an important match to me. Yeah, especially when I’m wrestling an opponent that I’ve never been in the ring with before. I’ve never had a one on one match with Lio actually. We’ve been on the same side of matches back in the day in Ring Of Honor, but we’ve never been against each other. Yeah, everything will be the same with the exception of watching Lio Rush matches.”
Mike Bailey wrestled four matches in a day for PWG ‘Battle of Los Angeles’ 2023, and he explained that it was due to a visa issue.
Speaking with Cultaholic, Bailey revealed how he worked all four of his matches due to a visa problem that barred him from showing up on the inaugural night. He said,
“I didn’t know until the day of. There was a situation where my Visa gets renewed periodically and it was expired…I didn’t have a visa between January 1 and January 7 of that year. BOLA happened January 7 and 8. That’s why I wasn’t able to do my first round match on the first day and I had to do it on the second day. I had to wrestle four matches to win the tournament.”
“That’s a conversation that was had, ‘would you be okay to wrestle four matches on the second day?’ ‘I don’t see why not. That doesn’t sound incredibly difficult.’ Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen BOLA, it was truly one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done in my life.”
