In recent years, impact wrestling has done an impressive job of dispelling its old, mostly negative reputation from its TNA days, and is now a solid promotion with consistent quality and an impressive roster. One of the big standouts on the list is “The Walking Weapon” Josh Alexander, who rose to the top of the company to become Impact World Champion.
However, these days Impact Wrestling is much more under the radar than it used to be during its peak times, which is why there are a lot of wrestling fans out there who probably don’t know much about Josh Alexander. Let’s take a look at his entire career, including his association with “All Ego” Ethan Page.
10 Lifelong friends with Ethan Page
Trained by Canadian veteran and former Impact Wrestling wrestler Johnny Devine, Josh Alexander made his in-ring debut in 2005. It was at Canadian independent wrestling Alpha-1 Wrestling in the early 2010s that he met Ethan Page, who convinced to Alexander to form a tag team with him on the grounds that Illustrated Pro Wrestling the ratings for tag teams were capped at 50, while the PWI rating for singles wrestlers was 500, so there would be less competition to make it to the higher tag team ratings.
9 The origin of his headdress
One thing that sets Josh Alexander apart from other wrestlers on a visual level is his use of amateur wrestling helmets in matches. While he certainly fits the Kurt Angle-esque marksman persona of him, he also had a very real role in the beginning. In 2013, Alexander had cauliflower ear so bad that he needed to have his ear removed and so he began wearing the helmet to protect his ear after it was reattached. Fans were quick to notice the helmet, and on one occasion chanted “helmet” repeatedly during a Ring of Honor show Alexander wrestled, ultimately ruining Kevin Steen’s farewell ceremony before he left for WWE.
8 Wrestled in PWG and ROH
Working under the team name Monster Mafia, Josh Alexander and Ethan Page complemented each other well, with Alexander acting as the muscle and Page as the mouthpiece. After impressing Canadian independents, Monster Mafia would head to the United States and wrestle for big independents like Ring of Honor and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.
At ROH, Monster Mafia would have matches with reDRagon and others, while at PWG they would take on the Young Bucks, the cutest tag team in the world, and the Beaver Boys, and end up winning the Tag Team Championship, albeit very briefly.
7 Almost retired in the 2010s
Josh Alexander spent a couple of years dealing with a near-career-ending neck injury, first sustaining it in 2013, healing, then injuring himself again while wrestling reDRagon at ROH months later. After undergoing spinal fusion surgery, he was injured again in 2015 and was told that he needed another surgery and that he had to retire. However, he found out that his second surgery ended up fixing some of the complications from the first surgery, and he was able to rehab and finally return to the ring.
6 Married to Jade Chung
In 2016, Josh Alexander married Jennifer Chung, who had entered the professional wrestling business in 2003 under the ring name Jade Chung. Over the years, Chung has worked as a professional wrestler and manager for promotions such as ROH, PWG, IWA Mid-South, and Border City Wrestling, run by future Impact boss Scott D’Amore. As a valet, he has managed groups like The Embassy and Generation Next in ROH, as well as Scorpio Sky and the team of Joey Ryan and Scott Lost in PWG. She also made appearances on Impact Wrestling alongside her husband.
5 Reunited with Ethan Page at Impact
By 2018, both Josh Alexander and Ethan Page were a part of Impact Wrestling, albeit initially as separate individual stars. Josh Alexander started out as a middle man on the Impact minor. burst before signing a contract and becoming an active part of the roster, while Page had debuted in 2017 as Abyss’ kayfabe cousin Chandler Park before becoming part of the X Division under his usual ring name. In 2019, the two finally reunited as a tag team and adopted a new name, The North.
4 Two-time Impact World Tag Team Champion
After forming The North, it was only about four months before Josh Alexander and Ethan Page rose to the top of the tag team division, defeating Santana and Ortiz (as LAX) to capture their first Tag Team Championship on Impact. Their inaugural reign would last 383 days before they dropped the belts to the Motor City Machine Guns.
Three months later, however, The North would regain their belts from Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley, holding them for only 21 days before losing them to The Good Brothers in their first defense.
3 X Division Champion
After losing the tag title, Josh Alexander and Ethan Page had a breakup angle, with Page soon leaving for All Elite Wrestling. Now a solo wrestler again, Alexander quickly became a baby and competed in the X Division, eventually defeating Ace Austin and TJP in a three-way match to capture Austin’s X Division Championship. Over the course of this run, he proved to be a total workhorse, defending the belt in several notable matches, including an impressive effort against Chris Sabin, an Ultimate X match, and a 60-minute Iron Man match against TJP.
two Used option C to capture the impact world title
The X Division Title comes with a rule called Option C, which allows the champion to vacate their title in exchange for a shot at the Impact World Championship. Since the rule was introduced in 2012, only six fighters have invoked it, including Josh Alexander, who issued his challenge to Christian Cage after Cage defended the world title against Ace Austin at victory road 2021. A month later, in bound for gloryAlexander was able to defeat Cage to capture his first Impact World Championship.
1 Two time impact world champion
Unfortunately, Josh Alexander’s first world title reign lasted just a few minutes, as Moose decided to use his Money in the Bank-style Call Your Shot opportunity to dethrone Alexander during his post-match celebration with his family. After battling mid-card, Josh Alexander returned to the main event scene to challenge Moose for the belt, kicking off an intense feud that ended in Alexander’s victory at Rebellion. Since then, Alexander has proven to be a successful fighting champion, defending the belt against an impressive array of opponents, including Eric Young, Tomohiro Ishii, Joe Doering and Jacob Fatu.