Alexander confirms he was at the WWE events in Toronto.
With the existing partnership between WWE and TNA Wrestling, two-time IMPACT/TNA World Champion Josh Alexander figured it’d be fine to take his son to attend WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the lead-up to Money in the Bank.
Alexander received tickets from a friend. He confirmed he was present at WWE’s weekend of events while on the Johnny I Pro Show. At SmackDown, Alexander and his son were invited backstage by Naomi. While they were backstage, Alexander and Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes caught up and Rhodes offered to provide tickets to Money in the Bank for the father and son. He secured them fourth row seats.
Elsewhere in the story, Josh shared the note that he purchased his son a replica championship belt at SmackDown but when it came time to go backstage, his son did not want to wear it. Josh jokingly said he wrapped the belt around his son because he refused to be backstage and in Gorilla Position holding a replica belt.
I brought my son to SmackDown and to Money in the Bank. Now with the working relationship between TNA and WWE, I’m like, ‘Oh, I can go.’ If everybody else is going, you know what I mean? I can take my son to a show because he’s obsessed with wrestling so I take him and Trinity (Naomi), we text her, like, ‘We’re here. Have a good match.’ She’s like, ‘Oh, come to the back.’ ‘Uh, okay.’ So, this is a funny story. I’ll share this one with you. We get grabbed by security from like whatever. We’re in one of the floor seats because we got free tickets from a friend of mine and we’re walking to the back with security and pull back the curtain and Jett, I bought him the World Heavyweight Championship replica, and he’s like, ‘Daddy, hold this, hold this’ and he puts it in my hand and I’m like, ‘No. Take this back. I’m not walking in the back holding this pretend belt dude’ and he’s not taking it so I have to wrap it around him. I’m not walking in the back holding this replica title. But I walk to the back, I’m standing right by Gorilla and waiting for Trinity to come back. She had a post-show match. Like a dark for the house and I’m waiting for her to come back so we can say what’s up to her and Cody (Rhodes) runs up to me right away, gives me a big hug. He’s like, ‘Josh!’ It was like he saw me yesterday and I’ve seen him twice at Alpha-1 (Wrestling). I’ve worked with him twice. Obviously, we all are familiar with each other through social media and all this other stuff but we haven’t really spoke and he’s like, ‘You wanna come tomorrow?’ I’m like, ‘Ah, I don’t know man. We had no intention’ and I looked down at my son Jett and Jett looks at me, he goes, ‘We’re going to Money in the Bank?’ He’s like, ‘Text me if you want tickets’ and he walks away and I’m like, I only had his number from like 2016 and I got back to the hotel, I text him, ‘That offer good?’ And he was just like, ‘Yeah, absolutely.’ Same number from 2016. He got us fourth row tickets to Money in the Bank and my son had the time of his life because of the generosity of Cody Rhodes.
Circling back to the WWE-TNA partnership, Alexander expressed that he’s happy to see his former partner Ethan Page’s success in NXT. The weekend Alexander attended the shows in Toronto was the weekend that Page captured the NXT Title.
Speaking about the idea of a potential singles match between the two, Alexander does not think there’s a match better suited for a Worlds Collide: TNA vs. WWE show than himself versus Page.
Super happy (to see Ethan Page succeeding in NXT) because I always knew it was possible. We tagged up as Monster Mafia but we were both singles stars at different major independent promotions. We were both champions at AIW, AAW, stuff like that. We were kind of neck and neck but two completely different wrestlers and I think that’s why when we came together as a tag team, we complemented each other so well. But I always knew it was possible. It’s just, in wrestling, it’s like, when are you gonna get your shot? That opportunity might never come. You just gotta be ready when it comes and you know, AEW, it obviously didn’t work out the way he wanted it to but he shows up in NXT and boom, within what? Six weeks, eight weeks, he’s NXT Champion and it’s amazing to see. I like seeing good things happen to good people.
Oh, absolutely (I’m game to face Ethan Page). Like I said, heart and soul of TNA, the standard of TNA. I’m gonna rep TNA all day long. If they wanna do a Worlds Collide: TNA vs. WWE, I don’t think there’s a better match to be made than me going in there and kicking his ass and taking that NXT Championship so…
As for Alexander’s immediate future, he is gearing up to challenge for the TNA World Championship at Emergence. He’ll be taking on Nic Nemeth in a 60-minute Iron Man Match.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit the Johnny I Pro Show with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
