Josh Alexander is looking to stay in the wrestling business after he steps away from the ring.
'The Walking Weapon' spent a large portion of 2023 away from the ring, as he was suffering from a triceps injury. As it turns out, Alexander made use of his time away from the ring, as he dipped his toes into the world of producing.
While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, Alexander talked about how he started producing the same weekend that he was forced to give up the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
"Well, I got hurt. I flew from Mexico to Orlando directly to get the MRI and the surgery all within four days. Then I flew straight to Windsor the day after surgery. No, I flew three hours after surgery to Detroit and drove to Windsor and ended up showing up at the Windsor tapings the next day. That’s when I gave up my championship with my wife and son in the ring and all that stuff happened. But I remember I was at those tapings in a sling with my arm casted up and I was like, ‘Can I still come to work? Can I learn how to be a producer? Can I do all this stuff?’ Because that’s something I’m gonna be able to do when my in-ring career is over. So if I learn it now when I’m sidelined and that, it’s just gonna be something that benefits me going forward. So it was something that I had asked to do and happily Scott D’Amore and management at the time obliged me, and it was something that I could learn. Coaching something is something I’ve done for a very long time at wrestling schools. I’m currently the head trainer at Can-Am Wrestling Dojo here that’s been open for 30 years in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Accepting new intake for April 15th, by the way, I’ll sneak that in there. Coaching something I love to do. You just get the wheel turning. I can look at wrestling after all my experiences, I think I can help people think of things from a different perspective. That’s something I enjoy. Being a producer was something I enjoyed as well because it’s something, like I said, I’m going to be able to do after my in-ring career is done. Whenever that might be. Hopefully not for a long time. But it was just important for me to keep working. I wanted to show up for work. I wanted to be around this locker room. I wanted to be around everybody that we built this relationship with over the past five years. I was very happy that IMPACT let me do that."
Elsewhere in the interview, Alexander talked about Jade Chung's new job as a ring announcer. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
TNA will return to Windsor, Ontario, Canada on March 8 for the Sacrifice event. On March 9, the city will also a set of television tapings for the promotion.
Fans can check out Fightful's full interview with Josh Alexander in the video linked at the top of this article.
