Josh Alexander recently appeared as a guest on The Kurt Angle Show podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, "The Walking Weapon" spoke about
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On looking up to Kurt Angle: “When you look up to somebody like I look up to Kurt, you know, I have a long list of people I’ve looked up to and studied over the years, and Kurt’s right at the top of it. So for him to critique my matches and the work I do, man, it’s nerve-wracking. But it’ll be a learning experience for all of us.”
On the X-Division making TNA what it was: “Yeah, it definitely did because it showed a different type of pro wrestling and honestly inspired a whole generation because, for me, in 2005, I was 18 years old. When I look at WWE, I’m looking at Batista, and Randy Orton and all these larger than life guys that I know I’m not six foot three, I’m not 245 pounds of muscle. There’s no way I can do that. But then I saw someone like AJ Styles or Loki or Samoa Joe, and I’m just like, You know what, maybe there is a spot where I can get into this where I can find success as well.”
On IMPACT Wrestling rebranding back to TNA Wrestling: “You got to think that locker room is full of TNA fans, people that grew up watching the likes of you know Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Gail Kim, Awesome Kong like our knockouts locker room has to be you know, the majority inspired by the likes of Gail Kim and awesome calm because like women’s wrestling wasn’t highlighted to let them just go out there and wrestle for ten plus minutes until the knockouts division started in TNA. Then the same goes for me, and I will offer that we have similar stories. We’re both inspired by the likes of Samoa Joe and AJ Styles in this exhibition stuff that was highlighted in a time when we didn’t think that was possible.”
Check out the complete interview via the YouTube player embedded below. H/T to WrestlingHeadlines.com for transcribing the above quotes.
