Opening Segment For Tonight’s Impact Wrestling, Josh Alexander Speaks Out
Pwinsider has revealed the opening segment for tonight’s episode of Impact Wrestling.
Scott D’Amore will deliver a promo to open tonight’s show on AXS TV.
D’Amore teamed with the returning Eric Young to defeat Bully Ray and Deaner at Slammiversary last week. Special Guest Enforcer Darren McCarty and former Team Canada member A1 were also involved in the finish.
In other news, Josh Alexander appeared on “Wrestling Is Life” to discuss his friendship with Jake Something, what his difficult upbringing taught him, and more.
Alexander made his return to Impact TV at Slammiversary this past week.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On watching wrestling teaching him to like what you like and not care what others think: “For me, because I had the contrast of my stepdad in the room and saying, ‘Why are you watching this dumb stuff?’ [and my grandma being in the room] the lesson I took away from it was – ‘You can like whatever you want if you enjoy it.’ My grandmother, who never said a cross word to anybody would turn [to my stepdad] right away and say, ‘Let me like what I like!’ If I can say anything from being a young wrestling fan … if you like something, even if it’s weird to the bulk of people at your school… wear that Degeneration X shirt and be the weird wrestling guy if that’s what makes you happy. That’s what I did. … If I can teach a life lesson to my kids it’s not to conform.”
On his tough upbringing leading to his current positive mindset: “My [dad] didn’t have a dream to push himself. He kind of self-sabotaged himself before he could actually fail. Which is something I did time and time again throughout my childhood. The ‘you can’ts’ [in my house as a kid] were far more than the ‘you can do whatever you want.’ In my house [now with my kids]… can’t isn’t a word you can use. I’m trying to prop everyone up at all times. Like you said with me, my fitness [journey], my wrestling [career], I’ve kind of willed this into existence. But, that [mindset] didn’t happen until I discovered wrestling.”
On what he learned from Johnny Devine in wrestling school: “This is all my responsibility. No one else is going to pick up the slack for me. If I really want something… I gotta take it.”
On his friendship with Jake Something: “I can’t be friends with someone until I wrestle them. We can be acquaintances, but the second we wrestle… it happened with me and Jake Something. We knew eachother for years, we were always buddies, but we wrestled eachother once and it was so kick ass and awesome. He was amazing. I came to the back and we leveled up in our friendship right away.”
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