Bailey feels that things are constantly improving at IMPACT.
In October of 2021, IMPACT Wrestling offered ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey a contract and he signed his deal in a ring after competing against current IMPACT World Champion Josh Alexander.
Fast forward to present day and Bailey has held the X Division Championship and went 60 minutes with Alexander on IMPACT on AXS.
When it comes to Bailey’s future, he told Chris Van Vliet he’ll be with IMPACT for a few more years and feels the company is heading in the right direction. He wants to see it grow and is also enjoying being able to wrestle talents from different companies on the independents.
I mean, I’m gonna be with IMPACT Wrestling for a few more years. And I’m very excited about that. I want to grow along with IMPACT, and I think that’s a big part of it. I feel like — I’m not taking any credit for it, but they have absolutely been making all the right moves. And Scott [D’Amore] has taken the company in a very, very interesting direction. And they have been growing, the shows have been consistently getting better. They’ve come out of the pandemic, and just knocked it out of the park. The live events are absolutely fantastic. And I think that I don’t think there’s a limit right now, to what I can do in IMPACT. And I think that the more all of us at IMPACT grow, the more the company is going to grow. And I feel like that’s limitless, kind of. But that being said, I want to outdo myself. And I know that people have said that my 2022 was a wild year, and my goal is just to make 2022 better, wherever and however that might be… I am a much better wrestler right now than I was at the beginning of the year. I am focused on growth and continuous improvement. And I feel like I’ve achieved that. And I feel like my work itself is going to keep getting better in 2023. I mean, like with how wrestling is evolving and changing, there’s new opportunities constantly. I mean, forbidden door things that are happening now like they never have before. I got to wrestle KENTA recently at Pro Wrestling REVOLVER [and I had] match with Jon Moxley, I wrestled Will Ospreay earlier in the beginning of the year. I mean, I wrestled Dax Harwood two weeks ago in a, you know, big forbidden door extraordinaire match. And I feel like that just makes the possibilities endless. And if I can continue to wrestle all the best wrestlers in the world and keep getting better while I do it, I feel like that’s enough of a goal.
Bailey will be in action on the 12/22 IMPACT on AXS. He’ll be going one-on-one with Yuya Uemura. IMPACT’s Hard To Kill pay-per-view is coming up on January 13th and below is the updated lineup for that event:
- IMPACT World Championship: Josh Alexander (c) vs. Bully Ray
- IMPACT Knockouts World Championship (Title vs. Career): Jordynne Grace (c) vs. Mickie James
- Eddie Edwards vs. Jonathan Gresham
