TNA star Josh Alexander was interviewed on “INSIGHT” with Chris Van Vliet. Among several topics, Alexander confirmed that his TNA deal expires in February.
Josh Alexander on being a free agent:
“February 15, I’ll be a free agent. I mean, TNA announced they extended me, picked up my year extension on February 14 last year. So yeah, heading into free agency for the first time. I’m equal parts nervous, equal parts excited. Obviously, there’s the one end of the spectrum where you’re like, nothing might come of this. You have to be realistic. I have kids. I have a wife. I have a house I pay for and stuff like that. I can just do wrestling because I love it, because that’s all I’ve ever really done. That’s what kind of what’s led me through this business the entire time, just getting fulfillment out of it is the most important part to me. As long as I get to do it at some level, I’m happy. I do indies, still to this day, where I get tons of fulfillment. I’m very happy to do it, and that might be it. I might just be doing Indies. I might be back doing construction to feed my family and stuff like that, but every so often you gotta bet on yourself.”
On his next career move:
“That’s the big question mark because I don’t know what the next step is. I’ve been ragged on in the past for saying I never had the dream of main-eventing WrestleMania. I know Hunter himself has had the quote being like, ‘If you don’t want to be the top guy here, then you’re in the wrong business.’ It’s not that I don’t want to be the top guy, or don’t think I have the ability to be the top guy or anything like that, it was just never my childhood dream. I honestly never thought anything that I’m doing or have done was even possible. So this is all this amazing trip I’ve been on the entire time, and it’s just been setting little goals along the way. I want to win this Ontario indie promotions World Championship too. I want to get paid a certain amount to wrestle too. I want that contract to kind of validate all this work and all this travel. Running cars into the ground for little or no money to drive to Chicago and back, and one night make it back for work the next day and stuff like that, and then you achieve that contract, and all this other stuff I’ve been able to do. Now I’m sitting here going, what could I possibly do next that’s going to be the next step, and it’s just like, I need to grow my name. I feel like I’ve established myself as a top guy in TNA, and whatever might be next after that, I’ll find out, and then I’ll set those other goals.”
On what could be next:
“I’m looking everywhere right now. Both my sons are wrestling nuts, especially my six-year old. So, Monday is Raw, Tuesday is NXT, Wednesday is Dynamite, Thursday is Impact. I’m watching everything with my kids all week long, which is awesome because I get to share this passion with them, but at the same time I’m watching the product, looking at NXT being like, man me and Ethan could tag up and we can face that tag team and that would be awesome. I’d really love to have a match with Pete Dunne or Gunther. The list goes on, Then you watch Dynamite, and I’m just like, man, I’ve torn it up with Will and Takeshita in the past. I would sure love to do that on a bigger stage. One bucket list thing I might have, a wrestler that’s still out there wrestling that I would really love to get a chance to wrestle is Edge. There’s Japan. Shingo is the one guy on my bucket list, like, this is doable. I’m gonna make this happen. Him and Ishii were neck and neck, and I made the Ishii match happen. Shingo is the other one. So I just look at the landscape of it, where I can go and where the talent is that I want to work with. Everybody’s kind of stacked, roster-wise. To be able to tell stories and stuff like that with these people, the options are all open.”
What is he looking for in making his next move:
“Probably just personal fulfillment, and a bunch of things go into that. I love wrestling. I love the actual act of wrestling. You give me 20 minutes on TV or pay-per-view, and I’ll go out there and I’ll do everything I can to make magic happen. So where the opportunities come, that’s probably the most important part. Obviously money plays a factor. Like I said, two sons, a wife. I need to upgrade where we’re living because my kids are only getting bigger and more crazy.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Chris Van Vliet with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
