Alisha Edwards wasn't initially announced for the Knockouts Ultimate X match at IMPACT Hard To Kill.
She ended up replacing Rachael Ellering on the final IMPACT before Hard to Kill. Not being part of the initial lineup disappointed Alisha, who believed she had built some positive momentum coming off the Monster's Ball match.
"I was very disappointed when they announced who was part of the match. I felt, after Monster's Ball, I had momentum going into these things and was disappointed," she said in an interview with Tommy Dreamer on House of Hardcore.
Tasha Steelz previously revealed that her and Jordynne Grace "bugged" Scott D'Amore to have the Knockouts Ultimate X. Alisha revealed that she was part of the group who helped "sell" D'Amore by climbing the structure when it was set up at Slammiversary 2021.
"Jordynne came up to me and said, 'I think they are thinking about doing a women's (Ultimate X).' 'Yeah right.' At that time, another thing I added to my resume, was starting to work out and putting more work into that. I wanted to see if I could personally do it myself. I know a lot of people, including Scott, would say I'm the less athletic of the Knockouts. I went to Scott and was like, 'If I can cross from there to there, can we have an all girls one?' That was another reason I was a little disappointed I wasn't part of the match because I thought that was the application to be involved in the match. I climbed up the trust and went to the X just to kind of show them that the girls can do it too and hopefully we could get that spot on the PPV. Fast forward to six months later and it's the first-ever (women's) Ultimate X at Hard to Kill," she said. "(Chris) Sabin was one of the producers for the match, (he is) one of the guys that has been in probably in most of the Ultimate X matches. He said that was one of the highest [structures] he had seen. That kind of freaked us out a little bit."
The Knockouts Ultimate X match was won by Tasha Steelz, earning her a shot at Mickie James and the Knockouts Championship.
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