Chris Sabin Talks Being An Agent For IMPACT, As Well As Keeping An Eye On The Ultimate X Match at Slammiversary

Chris Sabin won the X Division Title from Trey Miguel at IMPACT’s Against All Odds LIVE event back on June 9th. This made Chris a 9x X Division Champion with the company.

On the lead up to the pay-per-view, Sabin stopped past Sunday Night’s Main Event and stated that he is still doing agent work for IMPACT. He mentioned the several ACL injuries he’s had and that if his in-ring career ended, he’d be happy with completely moving into that agent role. 

“And I’m actually right now, I still agent and wrestle at the same time so I’m still gaining experience as a backstage agent. Started doing that in 2019 so it’s been almost four years of experience and that, I really like having that in my back pocket because that’s, you know, a job position in every major wrestling company in the US. They have backstage agents so, just being able, if my in-ring career ended and I would still be able to agent, I would be happy with that as well so as long I can work somewhere or have some sort of job related or within the wrestling business, I would be happy.”

There is going to be an Ultimate X match at Slammiversary with the winner earning a shot at Sabin’s X Division Title. Sabin gave compliments about each competitor in the match, but highlighted Kevin Knight and KUSHIDA. 

“Well I think KUSHIDA would be interesting if he won (Ultimate X at Slammiversary). Being a part of Time Machine and being one of my best buddies in wrestling, that would be a really interesting matchup but, a guy I do have my eye on is Kevin Knight. I think that he has so much potential. The man can jump so high. He has just amazing athletic ability so, I’m gonna have my eye on them but obviously, all of those men are talented. Mike Bailey, I mean everyone’s been watching Mike Bailey’s run on the independents and in IMPACT for the last couple of years. It’s just been amazing. (Jonathan) Gresham, one of the best technical wrestlers in the world and Angels has really proven himself as a star as well but, yeah, Kevin Knight, I’m really interested to see what he does in that match.”

H/T Andrew Thompson for Post Wrestling. Full article here.

Chris Sabin is specifically keeping an eye on Kushida – who he’s great friends and part of Time Splitters with – but all of the other great competitors in the match as well, which includes former X Division champion Mike Bailey, NJPW star Kevin Knight, Jonathan Gresham, and Alan Angels.

The winner of this Ultimate X match gets an X Division Title shot at the time and place of their choosing.

Chris Sabin is currently scheduled to defend his X Division Title against Lio Rush this Saturday July 15th at Slammiversary.

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Matches announced for Slammiversary Ppv on 7/15:

***Countdown To Slammiversary***

IMPACT DIGITAL MEDIA TITLE
-Joe Hendry (c) vs Kenny King (w/Sheldon Jean)

***Main Card***

IMPACT WORLD TITLE
-Alex Shelley (c) vs Nick Aldis

IMPACT KNOCKOUTS WORLD TITLE
-Deonna Purrazzo (c) vs Trinity

IMPACT TAG TEAM TITLES
-ABC (c) vs Moose/Brian Myers vs Sami Callihan/Rich Swann vs Subculture

IMPACT X DIVISION TITLE
-Chris Sabin (c) vs Lio Rush

Tag Team Match – Special Enforcer: Darren McCarty
??? & Scott D’Amore vs Bully Ray & Deaner

Ultimate X Match
“Speedball” Mike Bailey vs Jonathan Gresham vs Alan Angels vs Kushida vs Kevin Knight

IMPACT KNOCKOUTS TAG TEAM TITLES
-The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King) (c) vs Killer Kelly & Masha Slamovich

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