{"id":75773,"date":"2020-09-08T06:04:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=75773"},"modified":"2020-09-08T06:04:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:04:40","slug":"josh-alexander-announced-bloodsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/09\/08\/josh-alexander-announced-bloodsport\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Alexander First Name Announced For Bloodsport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Barnett&#8217;s Bloodsport has fast become many peoples favourite event of The Collective.\u00a0 It&#8217;s emphasis on shoot influenced wrestling and realistic grappling and strikes make it stand out in the modern indie scene.\u00a0 Bloodsport was one of the events <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/08\/30\/lineup-schedule-the-collective-2020\/\" target=\"_self\">rescheduled for the new Collective<\/a> and we now have a first talent announced in Josh Alexander.\u00a0 In our opinion, there are few better performers to fit the bloodsport mold than the &#8220;walking weapon&#8221; Josh Alexander.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just so others don&#39;t bother: Bloodsport is not a joke. It&#39;s not a tongue in cheek, irony laden gimmick. There&#39;s enough of that in pro wrestling to go around already if that&#39;s the itch you need scratched.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#39;t waste my or your time with things like this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F6hjLWnGei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/F6hjLWnGei<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udd7f\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd8a \ud835\udd82\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd97\ud835\udd92\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd98\ud835\udd99\ud835\udd8a\ud835\udd97 (@JoshLBarnett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshLBarnett\/status\/1303100255089520640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Josh Alexander may be most widely known for his work in\u00a0<strong>IMPACT Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>as a member of The North with\u00a0<strong>Ethan Page<\/strong>.\u00a0 The tag team works because Page brings the charisma while Alexander can back it up in the ring with his exceptional mat skills and his array of suplexes.\u00a0 While mostly known for IMPACT, Josh Alexander is in fact a fourteen year veteran and has been one of the top names in the Canadian indie scene for many years winning a long list of championships in places like\u00a0<strong>Alpha-1, C4, Pure Wrestling Association,\u00a0<\/strong>and south of the border has captured gold in\u00a0<strong>Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>AAWPro<\/strong> in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 All events from The Collective are seemingly being shown on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Fite TV<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Barnett&#8217;s Bloodsport has fast become many peoples favourite event of The Collective.\u00a0 It&#8217;s emphasis on shoot influenced wrestling and realistic grappling and strikes make it stand out in the modern indie scene.\u00a0 Bloodsport was one of the events rescheduled for the new Collective and we now have a first talent announced in Josh Alexander.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":75775,"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":[12,6,2192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75773","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}