Josh Alexander opens on about dealing with injuries.
Josh Alexander previously relinquished the IMPACT World Championship after he suffered a triceps tear, and he has since returned to the ring.
Speaking on Sunday Night's Main Event, Josh Alexander discussed his mindset about staying in the ring and revealed that he wrestled with a torn knee during his title run. He also noted that he worked with a torn knee for over two years.
“Something that was instilled in me for whatever reason, I just wanted to get out of the ring. I had this true passion for this that if my knee got banged up while I was training, I might be stupid for doing this, but I didn’t want to show that my knee was banged up because I didn’t want them to tell me that I couldn’t train. So I’d be hiding all this stuff that was happening, whether it was a bruise or a swell or a sprain, or all this other stuff. I just never want to get out of the ring. So that’s kind of the mentality I always had. So then when I trained with [Johnny] Devine, it was like, ‘You don’t know what hurt is.’ I’ve been wrestling with a torn ACL for a year, and I just wear this brace, and as I progressed through my career, I’ve wrestled with a torn knee for two and a half years. My whole title run, my knee was torn, and I didn’t get it fixed until my tricep went, and then I just called the surgeon, and [he] was like, yeah, I’ll fit you in next week, it’ll be healed in six weeks. I had knee surgery in secret, just to clean up my knee finally, to get me back to 100%. But wrestling, there’s no off-season, there’s no time to get stuff fixed, especially if you’re on a run, so you’ve just got to keep going," Alexander said.
Alexander also noted that he had knee surgery shortly after he had triceps surgery. He noted that knee surgery has come a long way, as his recovery was shorter compared to a procedure that he had when he was younger.
"I came home from triceps surgery, and it was like ten days later, my surgeon fit me in to do my knee. But knee surgery is amazing now. I had the same surgery done when I was 17, and I was out for months. This one, I was on the stairs at the gym like a week later. He was like, ‘The more you can move, the better.’ I was like, that’s great for me," Alexander said.
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