Josh Alexander discusses the original plans for TNA Slammiversary 2024.
At TNA Slammiversary 2024, Josh Alexander and Steve Maclin competed in a six-way match for the TNA World Championship. During the match, Alexander turned heel by hitting Joe Hendry below the belt and hitting him with a C4 Spike. Alexander then had a run as a heel for the next several months. He wrapped up with TNA in February and entered free agency.
Speaking on the Johnny I Pro Show, Steve Maclin noted that he and Josh Alexander had pitched to work together for over a year, and they suggested that they could be a team. Alexander then stated that, originally, he was not supposed to turn heel at TNA Slammmiversary 2024, as the original plans called for him to team up with Maclin.
“The original creative plans were, I was not supposed to be in the six-way at Slammiversary. Neither were you [Maclin]. I was not supposed to turn heel on Joe Hendry and do all this stuff with Joe Hendry and stuff prior to that. The original plan on paper was, we were supposed to team up [points to Maclin], I think we were supposed to defeat The System at Slammiversary for the tag belts, we were going to be tag champions, and we were going to feud with The Hardys or something, and then after we dropped to The Hardys, August, Septemberish, or something, that’s when we were going to go into this feud and go to Bound For Glory. Obviously, things in wrestling [are] fluid, and they change all the time, no matter how disappointed you might be, but yeah, so we ended up scrapping all that. I ended up turning heel, and we kind of just had to run into this feud and build it up really quick for Bound For Glory and then pay it off for Turning Point," Alexander said.
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