Josh Alexander On Getting Advice From Sami Zayn: He Taught Me How To Be Patient
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Josh Alexander says sometimes you’ve just got to let it all sink in.
IMPACT Wrestling X-Division Champion Josh Alexander recently spoke to Shakiel Mahjouri of Cageside Seats about some advice he received from WWE star Sami Zayn, who explained the importance of patience. Alexander said he’d heard the same thing before, but something just finally clicked when he heard it from the current WWE star.
“I reiterate this a lot to a lot of younger wrestlers at Impact and throughout the independents. It took me about the 10 or 11-year mark [to learn]. I wrestled El Generico and I remember him telling me, ‘Just calm down and wait.’ We were in the ring and something happened. And he said, ‘Wait, wait!’ And I was just like, ‘What?’ I waited and all of a sudden you hear the crowd just come up to this insane level and I would have cut them off and they would have never been there because I would have just been going through the motions.
“I had been told that same thing that El Generico had told me 100 times previous to that. But in my 10 years and all the experience I [had] grinded on the indies, at that moment, that’s when everything kind of clicked and went together. Listening to the crowd, that’s when you get the ear for everything. I think it’s just reps. Some people can develop it after two or three years. But for a lot of people, it’s around that 10-year mark where you get that year for the crowd. That’s really what we’re all about, is giving the fans what they want.”
Josh Alexander is currently in his first reign as IMPACT Wrestling’s X Division Champion, holding the title for 100+ days so far.
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