The IMPACT World Champion chats the B.F.G. main event and post-match fallout.
Headlining the 2022 installment of IMPACT Wrestling’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view was Josh Alexander successfully defending the IMPACT World Championship against Eddie Edwards.
Alexander and Edwards wrestled for nearly 30 minutes. He looked back on the match when he joined Brian Hebner on his Refin’ It Up podcast. Alexander dove into the physicality of the match and confirmed that he suffered a broken nose.
It’s a tough question but Eddie Edwards [is my toughest opponent to date]. I’m only days removed and my nose still hurts a lot and my eye still hurts a lot but, my chest is all ripped apart like it’s never been before from wrestling and it might have been the toughest match I’ve ever had to be honest, physically.
A lot [of chops]. Well, I broke my nose and I had no idea where I was for a second and then once all the tears fell out of my eyes and I could see again, I was just like, I don’t know what’s going on and I was like, ‘Just hit me dude’ and he just hit me and he was hitting me just trying to wake me up so I could get through that thing.
Post-match, Alexander was beaten down by members of Honor No More. Bully Ray then made his way to the ring and earlier in the night, he won the Call Your Shot Gauntlet. Instead of cashing in on Alexander, Bully helped fight off Honor No More and then formally issued a challenge to Alexander for the future.
Josh stated that despite what social media thinks about Bully getting an IMPACT World Title match, he’s excited about possibly working with him and feels he can learn a great deal from the former two-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
I’m actually quite excited about it [working with Bully Ray]. The internet can say whatever they want because it’s been kind of half and half received but I think there’s a great deal of stuff that I can learn from somebody like Bully Ray, especially — maybe not as much bell to bell because our styles our so different but like, how to build a match and a program and all this other stuff if we do end up working together for a longer time. He’s been in the business for what? 30 years man? There’s something I can take away from anybody in this business but somebody like that with that much experience, has worked with so many people, there’s a ton of stuff I can learn from somebody like that so…
Alexander agreed to a new multi-year deal with IMPACT this year. He shared that if he decided to become a free agent, there were opportunities to go elsewhere.
Alexander reiterated that he wanted to stay with IMPACT and dove into what the company has done for his career and how they’ve treated him since bringing him in.
Oh no, I had opportunities to go elsewhere, 100 percent, if I would have rode out my contract and not agreed to a new deal or something like that but it didn’t really cross my mind because I, A, felt like I had unfinished business here at IMPACT. I felt like there was so much more I could do and offer and show. Not just IMPACT but the wrestling industry as a whole, all these other companies what I’m capable of and IMPACT was the first company that gave me an opportunity. I talked about Ring of Honor. I also had EVOLVE over the years toy with me with contracts and stuff like that and it never materialized and then finally, Scott D’Amore called me up, offered me a contract and they were the company that gave me an opportunity. That’s all you can ask for as a professional wrestler and since I got here, it’s been nothing but roses for me man. I was here for like two months and I was tag team champion. I lost the tag belts, I was without a belt for three months, I was X Division Champion. I never lost that belt, I won the world championship. Six months later, I win the world championship again. For me, the thing that I get out of wrestling, it’s not winning all the time, it’s not the championships, it’s the challenges, I wanna be challenged. I wanna feel like I’m in an uncomfortable position where I have to better myself and improve and it’s been nothing but that the entire time I’ve been here and that’s all I could ask for so, I’m very happy to stay.
Kicking off this week’s IMPACT on AXS is Alexander. At the post-Bound For Glory TV taping, he went one-on-one with Bobby Fish.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Refin’ It Up with Brian Hebner with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
