Depending on who you ask, Josh Alexander hasn’t had the chance to prove why he’s called “The Walking Weapon” on AEW programming yet. Since leaving TNA, which put him on the map from 2019 to 2025 as each a flagbearer in singles and tag team motion, legends within the business like Konnan don’t imagine AEW fans are seeing Alexander for the prizefighter he’s known to be. A fan, who wrote into Konnan’s “Keepin’ It 100” podcast, asked the mastermind his thoughts on Alexander since his transition from Impact/TNA to AEW now.
“When he was in TNA, he was champion,” Konnan noted before addressing the query. “He was protected. He got here over here, his very first match, he debuted with a loss. I feel 90 percent of his matches have been losses. After which, he’s a part of a team that has way too many those that don’t even appear to be they belong together or hang around together. You understand, Don Callis has like 15 in his group.”
Through the six years Alexander was with Impact/TNA, he and now “WWE NXT” star Ethan Page (collectively generally known as The North), served because the two-time Impact World Tag Team Champions, with their first reign becoming the longest within the title’s history at 380 days. From there, Alexander would enterprise over to singles competition, holding the X-Division Championship once before trading up his hardware for the Impact World Championship, and making history again, not only as a two-time titleholder, but carrying the longest reign inside his second run with the belt at 335 days. Hoping to parlay all those accomplishments he had of yesteryear to now, although he has not claimed any gold in AEW yet, he does have one other notch in his weaponeer belt by becoming the present and inaugural MLP Canadian Champion for Scott D’Amore’s Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling promotion. Alexander’s last victory in AEW got here against Kota Ibushi via count out at “AEW Collision: Homecoming,” on October 11.
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