Current X-Division Champion Chris Sabin wants the X-Division to be TNA’s main division again when they revert back to the name in 2024.
At IMPACT Bound For Glory 2023, the company announced that they were making the change from being known as IMPACT Wrestling to returning to the “TNA” name again.
Chris Sabin defeated KENTA to retain the IMPACT X-Division Championship earlier at that same event.
Sabin is one of the few current roster members who was originally part of TNA when it was known by its previous moniker.
Speaking with the Battleground podcast, Chris Sabin discussed what he would like to see from the X-Division upon IMPACT reverting back to TNA Wrestling name in January 2024. He said:
“Well, I mean, I think the X-Division is basically what made TNA stick out, especially back in the day, that was like the flagship division of the company,”
“If you wanted to compare TNA to some other company, ‘What do they have that this other company doesn’t have?’ Well, there’s the X-Division. It’s kind of been ill-defined.”
“They say, ‘It’s not about weight limits, it’s about no limits.’. It’s kind of been considered a cruiserweight division, but there’s been heavyweights that have won the X-Division Championship, so you couldn’t really say that.”
“I just want the X-Division to get back to the heights that it was at when it was the flagship main division in the promotion,”
“I would love to bring in a lot of new guys, especially guys on the independents, that deserve a shot.”
“I would love to have a run where I continue wrestling all of these new guys that deserve a shot and eventually, we’ll discover a talent that’s worth investing in and then we can hire that guy.”
“The X-Division has been about making new stars and I think, hopefully, I can use that as a tool to help IMPACT/TNA discover new talent and possibly hire them.”
On names he would like to see in the promotion, Sabin said:
“Man, there’s, there’s a lot of guys. Judas Icarus. He’s a guy that I wrestled recently for Prestige, I think he’s amazing, amazingly talented, very unique.”
“It’s not easy to stand out and be unique in wrestling nowadays, and he’s done that on the independent level, and I think that’s pretty amazing. He has a partner, Travis [Williams].”
“They wrestled Alex Shelley and I about a month ago, for Prestige also, I think he is really good,”
“Titus Alexander is another one. I wrestled him several months ago for West Coast Pro and I think he’s very talented.”
“There’s other ones that I can’t think of right now, I just got back from Mexico yesterday and I’m still recovering. So, I apologize, but those guys for sure.”
Chris Sabin currently does not have an opponent for TNA Hard To Kill, which will take place on January 13. The main event will see Sabin’s Motor City Machine Guns partner Alex Shelley defending the TNA World Title against Moose.
Transcription via Fightful
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