Alexander Hammerstone

Hammerstone is originally from Phoenix, Arizona. He debuted on the Arizona independent circuit in 2013 with Championship Wrestling from Arizona (CWFA) and Arizona Wrestling Federation (AWF). In 2014, he wrestled in Las Vegas for Paragon Pro Wrestling (PPW) and Future Stars of Wrestling (FSW) and West Coast Wrestling Connection (WCWC) in Oregon. There he won his first championship, the WCWC Legacy Championship, in 2014, which he held for 132 days.[5][6] He followed that later in 2014 with the WCWC Tag Team Championship with partner Grappler 3 (as The Wrecking Crew).[7][8] Later in 2014, Hammerstone capped his time at WCWC by winning the WCWC Pacific Northwest Championship.[9][10] In 2015, Hammerstone had a tryout with WWE.[11] In April 2015, he won the PPW Tag Team Championship.[11] In February 2016, he would participate in another WWE tryout. Around this time he also did extra work for the company, one time appearing as Tyler Breeze's bodyguard.[12]

In 2016, Hammerstone started working in California where he appeared for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and made his debut for PCW Ultra. In 2017, he won the FSW Championship from Eli Drake. During the next two years he would hold the FSW Championship for over 600 combined days.[11] He would receive additional tryouts from WWE in October 2017 and February 2018.[1][13]

In 2018, he started being pushed heavily in PCW Ultra, getting wins against veteran wrestlers such as, Jeff Cobb, Brian Cage, Daga, Brody King, ACH, and Timothy Thatcher.[11] In September of that year, at PCW Ultra Vision Quest, he challenged Penta El Zero M for the PCW Ultra Heavyweight Championship in a losing effort.[14] That same year, he would wrestle for the nationally broadcast Ring Warriors during their first season.[11]

On January 3, 2019, Hammerstone competed in a one night tournament for West Coast Pro Wrestling at their event, When the Smoke Clears, to crown the first WCPW Heavyweight Champion. He defeated Tyler Bateman in the finals.[15] In January 2019 , he also competed on Impact Wrestling's Impact Xplosion, making his debut for the promotion.[11]

On February 2, 2019, Hammerstone debuted for Major League Wrestling (MLW).[16] His first match featured him in a squash match against Ariel Dominguez.[2] On the March 16 episode of Fusion, Hammerstone attacked The Hart Foundation and joined the villainous stable The Dynasty, the other members including Richard Holliday and Maxwell Jacob Friedman.[17] Hammerstone later defeated Brian Pillman Jr. on a following episode of Fusion.[18]

During WrestleMania 35 weekend, he wrestled in the second annual Battle Riot match at the namesake event.[19] He lasted until the final four, the match being eventually won by L.A. Park.[20] On the April 26 episode of Fusion, Dynasty defeated Hart Foundation in a tables match. The match ended with Hammerstone putting Pillman through the table.[21][22] Hammerstone was announced for the tournament to crown the inaugural MLW National Openweight Champion. He defeated Gringo Loco in the semi-final on the May 11 episode of Fusion,[23][24] and Brian Pillman Jr. in the final at Fury Road on June 1 to become the first National Openweight Champion.[25][26]

On July 26, MLW announced a working agreement with Japanese based promotion Pro Wrestling Noah, which would include a talent-exchange agreement and content collaboration between the two promotions[27][28] On July 29, it was announced that Hammerstone would represent MLW by participating in the 2019 N1-Victory, where he wrestled in Block A from August 18 to September 16.[29]