“The Walking Weapon” will be legally free-and-clear to walk wherever he chooses in the near future.
During an appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet this week, TNA Wrestling star Josh Alexander revealed that he will be a free agent on February 15, 2025, when his contract with the promotion is scheduled to expire.
“February 15th, I’ll be a free agent,” Alexander told Van Vliet. “TNA announced they extended me, they put a year extension on February 14 last year. Into free agency for the first time.”
Alexander would go on to elaborate, explaining how he is feeling with that fork in the road for his career coming up sooner, rather than later.
“Eqwual parts nervous and equal parts excited,” he said. “There is one end of the spectrum where nothing might come of this. You have to be realistic. I have kids, a wife, a house I pay for and I can do wrestling because I love it and it’s all I’ve ever really done. Getting fulfillment is the most important part to me. As long as I get to do it at some level, I’m happy. That might be it. I might just do indies, back to doing construction, something like that. Every so often, you have to bet on yourself. Five years ago, Santana is one of my good friends. He was finishing up with IMPACT Wrestling. We had an indie date, and he debuted the next night. I didn’t know that. We were chilling at the hotel. I asked, ‘What made you want to leave or look at it as an option?’ He was very happy at IMPACT, very successful, obviously. He was like, ‘We didn’t know what more we could do. We’ve held the tag team championships this many times. We’ve had this many amazing matches with this tag team. Every once and a while, you have to think about what’s next and what’s going to excite you.’ He kind of alluded to the fact that he hasn’t been excited in quite some time.”
He continued, “That really hits because thinking about my own thing, I’ve done so much in TNA over the six years and I’m very grateful. Opportunities are the one thing wrestlers need and TNA has given me countless of opportunities to prove myself. I’ve also done everything and worked with the bulk of the talent in the company. It’s all about what’s going to get me excited beyond this point.”
(H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.)