Josh Alexander has been a high star in Impression Wrestling for a very long time, to the purpose the place he’s at the moment making a run at being the longest reigning Impression world champion of all-time.
Alexander was briefly a free agent earlier this 12 months in February, and he might have theoretically signed with AEW at the moment. In an interview with Chris Van Vliet, Alexander defined why he was by no means near signing a contract with Tony Khan’s promotion:
“It was undoubtedly on the desk, and it was undoubtedly a thought…however I wouldn’t say it was too shut.”
“For me as a professional wrestler, my achievement of what I do is to go on the market and wrestle, and present what I can do. I believe my profit is bell-to-bell. That’s the place I’ll achieve notoriety. That’s the place I’ll present my price within the professional wrestling scene. And on the time watching AEW, it didn’t appear to be lots of people had been getting alternatives to try this stuff exterior of like the highest 20 those who had been on the roster. You’d see folks shuffle out and in, and shuffle out and in. They might get their runs for just a few weeks, and so they’d return to shorter matches on AEW Darkish.”
“Impression has been so good to me…I believe all you may ask for as a wrestler is for a possibility to indicate what you are able to do. Give me the ball and if I drop it, that’s fantastic. They’ve given me the ball a ton of instances and I don’t assume I’ve dropped it but. So I’m simply gonna trip this out and see the way it goes.”
AEW has a big roster and it’s pretty widespread for very gifted wrestlers like Hikaru Shida or Ricky Starks to obtain inconsistent TV time on Dynamite or Rampage. Typically even wrestlers who obtain an enormous push are simply abruptly cooled off for no obvious motive, like with Wardlow this summer time. The inflow of ROH wrestlers this 12 months and NJPW wrestlers in the course of the summer time made the competitors for TV time an excellent greater difficulty after Alexander was already off the free agent market.
The purpose is that even when AEW tv content material was killing it most weeks earlier than the drama got here this summer time, the crunch for TV time has all the time been a problem for wrestlers who usually are not in the principle occasion. Alexander didn’t need to find yourself misplaced within the shuffle and relegated to YouTube reveals; the dearth of alternative was undoubtedly an element on his thoughts when weighing his choices on the free agent market earlier this 12 months. He knew he wouldn’t have that downside in Impression, and that helped him make a simple resolution on the place to signal.
Do you assume Josh Alexander made the right selection in re-signing with Impression Wrestling earlier this 12 months, Cagesiders?
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