Josh Alexander Talks About His Decision To Re-Sign With IMPACT Instead Of Signing With AEW
On February 14th, 2022, Josh Alexander announced that his contract with IMPACT had expired. However, he made his return to the company at the end of their recent Sacrifice PPV, when he attacked World Champion Moose. It was later revealed that Alexander had signed a new multi-year contract with IMPACT Wrestling.
Josh Alexander appeared on the “Battlegrounds Podcast” this week to speak on few topics, ahead of his IMPACT! World Title match against Moose at Saturday’s “Rebellion” PPV event.
He spoke on AEW showing no interest in him before he worked for IMPACT! Wrestling:
“Impact gave me an opportunity when no other company would. I was in contact with the people at AEW before Impact ever considered signing me and they had told me that they were not interested in me as a singles wrestler. Impact then came along and signed me, and before The North ever came to be, they were preparing to push me as a singles talent when I debuted.”
Josh would continue on:
“I did vignettes and I did video stuff that was never aired as me being a singles person, and then when I showed up on my first day of work, they said, ‘We’re going to put you in a tag team with Ethan Page.’”
He then spoke on his decision to re-sign with the company.
“It was an easy decision for me. Right now I think the one thing that’s changed in the pro wrestling landscape, especially for like free agents and professional wrestlers, is regardless of whatever you have to offer, you have to be in the top 10% to have a job now in one of those sustainable positions at any of these companies, Impact included.”
He finished by speaking on why he came back.
“Because as you’ve seen with AEW signing up everybody that they can and all this other stuff, it’s just like, the waters are kind of picked dry a little bit, and whoever’s left is kind of fighting for whatever’s left. The thing that made my decision so much easier is I never planned on leaving.”
You can listen to the entire interview with Josh Alexander below.
(Please credit Battleground Podcast if you use any portion of the quotes from this article , and a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.)
