Nic Nemeth is ready to have the longest singles match of his career.
At TNA Emergence, Nemeth will defend his TNA World Championship against Josh Alexander in a 60 Minute Iron Man match. This will be a test for Nemeth, as it only will be his second time competing in an Iron Man bout. On the other hand, Josh Alexander has competed in a number of Iron Man matches throughout his career and has recently had very long matches with performers like Mike Bailey and Fred Yehi.
While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, Nemeth talked about the match and how it will be different from his finals days in WWE where he was competing in very short matches.
"I think so, yeah. Televised. I'm trying to think there's a couple half Ironmans. Like that Survivor Series was like an hour, but I wasn't in there the whole time. There was other guys and everything. So this will be a full on hour and someone like me who maybe two, three, five
years ago was like, I could do two hours if you wanted. The last year or two in New York, I was only having three and four minute matches. So no matter how much cardio I did, if I got six or eight minutes on TV, great. But no matter how much cardio you do and what you're doing,
it's not the same as ring time. So I was actually pretty nervous last week when it ended up being a 30 minute draw. I go, ‘Man, I hope I can still go. I talked a bunch of trash.’ I'm in the best shape of my life. I work out every single day no matter what. I go, ‘I hope I still got it,’ and at the end of that one, I went, ‘Okay, I'm good.’ I was nervous because I was in a bubble for 20 years and I wanted to see, can I go with people outside of that bubble? Can I make things happen? Can I be as good as the trash I talked? So far, yes."
Nemeth then went on to talk about how he started to pick up on the buzz of Josh Alexander once he started to get active outside of WWE.
"Josh is someone who, when I famously didn't watch wrestling for a little while because I hated what I was doing, as I started to come to TNA and do independents, I picked up on what he was doing and that is like his thing is being an Ironman, non-stop buzzsaw guy that can go and I go this is a hell of a challenge I really am looking forward to this because it really goes to show, it's not ‘Can I hang?’ This is ‘Can I get an A++ in the Ironman match and the first one I'm really doing?’ So it's a lot of pressure, but I love it and I live for it and he is not gonna let up and I look forward to that very much."
Elsewhere in the interview, Nemeth revealed that he originally signed a ten date with TNA. Learn more about those comments here.
Fans can check out Fightful's full interview with Nic Nemeth in the video linked at the top of this article.
As previously mentioned, Nemeth is set to defend his TNA World Championship against Josh Alexander at TNA Emergence on Friday, August 30. Fans can check out the show on TNA+.
