Mike Bailey Says Visa Issue Caused Him To Wrestle Four Matches In One Day For PWG BOLA 2023

‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey talks wrestling four matches in one day for PWG.

The Battle Of Los Angeles is considered to be one of the most prestigious tournaments in all of wrestling. The tournament, which takes place in January, was won by IMPACT’s Mike Bailey earlier this year. 

Bailey was able to knock off the likes of Konosuke Takeshita, Jordynne Grace, Shun Skywalker, and Bryan Keith all in one day to win the tournament.

In a new interview with Cultaholic, Bailey talked about wrestling all four bouts in the same day and detailed why exactly that had to happen.

“I didn’t know until the day of. There was a situation where my Visa gets renewed periodically and it was expired…I didn’t have a visa between January 1 and January 7 of that year. BOLA happened January 7 and 8. That’s why I wasn’t able to do my first round match on the first day and I had to do it on the second day. I had to wrestle four matches to win the tournament. That’s a conversation that was had, ‘would you be okay to wrestle four matches on the second day?’ ‘I don’t see why not. That doesn’t sound incredibly difficult.’ Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen BOLA, it was truly one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done in my life.”

Bailey recently talked about potentially taking part in a Elevation X match. Fans can learn more here.

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