Josh Alexander discusses his rematch with Will Ospreay.
On the November 16, 2023 episode of IMPACT Wrestling, Will Ospreay got the better of Josh Alexander in a highly anticipated match that live up to the hype. Ospreay stated after the bout that he wanted to return in a TNA ring, which would be possible when TNA Wrestling returned in January 2023 as IMPACT Wrestling rebranded back to TNA.
Ospreay got his match in a TNA ring, once again facing Alexander on the January 18 episode of TNA iMPACT!
Speaking to Kurt Angle on the Kurt Angle Show, Alexander was asked when he knew he would be facing Ospreay again.
"I knew it was possible, but there were political things, whether or not he could lose or not. They didn't want me to drop twice to him, so it might have been somebody else. I honestly think it was Will that called in and said, 'Do Josh, I don't care, I want to put him over.' To be at the level he's at and doing what he's about to be doing in February when he moves on to AEW, just to do this in-between, shows that he really cares about TNA as a brand. He said he wanted to highlight me and make me the guy that can be here when he's gone. It's just professionalism at its best," said Alexander.
Asked what it meant to him that Ospreay wanted to work with him again and put him over, Alexander replied, "It's a monumental deal to me. I told Will after the match, I hugged him and said, 'Thank you for doing that for me, I very much appreciate it.' You didn't have to, and there are people that didn't want him to, but he wanted to. I hugged him and said, 'I hope I'm at a point in my career one day when I can do the same thing for somebody else.' It feels good for me, personally, because it highlights me and springboards my career further, but it must feel good for him to pass something on like that to somebody that he knows isn't going to waste it."
Ospreay is set to finish up with NJPW on February 11 before starting with AEW full-time.
Fans can watch the entire match between Alexander and Ospreay in the video above.
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