{"id":39163,"date":"2019-02-24T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=39163"},"modified":"2019-02-24T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:13:43","slug":"breaking-josh-alexander-signs-3-year-deal-with-impact-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/24\/breaking-josh-alexander-signs-3-year-deal-with-impact-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Josh Alexander Signs 3-Year Deal with IMPACT Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Canada&#8217;s hottest rising indie stars over the past few years has been &#8220;The Walking Weapon&#8221; <strong>Josh Alexander<\/strong>. While he&#8217;s become a sought after commodity the past few years, he&#8217;s not a rookie by any means. Alexander, from Bolton, Ontario (just outside of Toronto), is a 14-year veteran trained by former IMPACT star Johnny Devine and NJPW&#8217;s <strong>Michael Elgin<\/strong>. At tonight&#8217;s <strong>Destiny Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>Blackcraft Wrestling<\/strong> co-production, <em><strong>The Ritual<\/strong><\/em>, in Toronto, IMPACT Executive Vice President <strong>Scott D&#8217;Amore<\/strong> came out and announced Alexander now had a 3-year deal with <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yup! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walking_Weapon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Walking_Weapon<\/a> is the newest star in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/impactwrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@IMPACTWRESTLING<\/a>  congrats my dude <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/youdeserveit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#youdeserveit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/podcast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#podcast<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/webrokethenewsfirst?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#webrokethenewsfirst<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/canadianstrongstyle?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#canadianstrongstyle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/damnright?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#damnright<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thehisttheanimal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thehisttheanimal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DvOYKDp17Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DvOYKDp17Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; StraightTlkWrestling (@_StraightTalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_StraightTalk\/status\/1099528137824759809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a moment of redemption for Josh Alexander. After years in the regional Canadian indies, he joined <strong>&#8220;All Ego&#8221; Ethan Page<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Alpha-1<\/strong> out of Hamilton, Ontario in 2010, and the two hit it off. A year later, they formed the tag team <strong>Monster Mafia<\/strong>, who went on to work for <strong>Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), All American Wrestling (AAW)<\/strong>, and more. While they still occasionally\u00a0tag together, both men went on singles routes the past few years. Ethan Page exploded in <strong>EVOLVE<\/strong>, IMPACT Wrestling, and others, while Alexander was rising on his own accord as well, with AAW, <strong>Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW), PROGRESS<\/strong>, and <strong>Beyond Wrestling<\/strong>. But then about six months ago, as his stock had never been higher, he had his US work visa denied and he was excluded from wrestling in the US without a contract. Well now, thanks to IMPACT Wrestling, Alexander will be able to work the US once again and we&#8217;ll be able to see him on television.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walking_Weapon\/status\/1099555178963976192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Canada&#8217;s hottest rising indie stars over the past few years has been &#8220;The Walking Weapon&#8221; Josh Alexander. While he&#8217;s become a sought after commodity the past few years, he&#8217;s not a rookie by any means. Alexander, from Bolton, Ontario (just outside of Toronto), is a 14-year veteran trained by former IMPACT star Johnny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":39165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,6],"tags":[226,3805],"class_list":["post-39163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-josh-alexander"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}