Hammerstone was brought into TNA Wrestling at TNA Hard To Kill 2024 to take on Josh Alexander. One month later, Hammerstone had signed a deal with TNA.
Hammerstone was on and off television throughout the year, most notably in a feud with Steve Maclin and competing in Ultimate X at TNA Emergence.
In March 2024, Hammerstone announced his TNA contract had expired and he was a free agent.
"At a certain point, perception is reality," Hammerstone told Zach Heydorn of Sports Illustrated's The Takedown. "So I'm sitting there and from my perception, I felt like the company stopped caring about me and maybe I needed to do something in a different way. Maybe they were looking for something that I wasn't giving them. But also that was never a conversation that was had. I'd be very happy to be sat down and told, 'hey, creatively, this is what we want to do. So we need to see more of this out of you.' And I never got that. It was just like, hey, where are we going creatively? And a lot of times it's like, well, you know what you're doing with this guy. You know what you're doing this that guy, so why don't you know what you're doing with me?"
For TNA's 2024 End of Year awards, Hammerstone's bout against Josh Alexander didn't make the poll to be voted on by fans.
"Whether that's a minority of fans or not. I don't care if I lose the poll. Just put me on the poll. So it got to a point where I felt like there was a loss of faith in me. And I don't know where that came from, but I could be way off here, and I'm not blaming anybody except myself, but once you start to perceive things like that, that becomes reality. So it's like, if this company doesn't have faith, I mean, why should I even have faith in myself if they don't have direction for me? Why should I try so hard? It's not to say that I ever gave up, but mentally, I just felt beat down," he said.
Hammerstone would return to MLW at MLW Battle Riot VII.
Fightful Select has more details on Hammerstone returning to MLW.
