TNA's Josh Alexander Reveals When He Will Be A Free Agent

Josh Alexander seemingly won't be a part of TNA Wrestling for much longer as the former IMPACT World Champion has revealed he will be a free agent from February 15.

"February 15 I'll be a free agent. I mean, TNA announced they extended me, picked up my year extension on February 14 last year. So yeah, heading into free agency for the first time. [I'm] equal parts nervous, equal parts excited. Obviously, there's the one end of the spectrum where you're like, nothing might come of this. You have to be realistic. I have kids, I have a wife, I have a house I pay for and stuff like that. I can just do wrestling because I love it, because that's all I've ever really done. That's kind of what's led me through this business the entire time, just getting fulfilment out of it is the most important part to me. As long as I get to do it at some level, I'm happy. I do indies, still to this day, where I get tons of fulfilment, very happy to do it. And that might be it. I might just be doing indies. Might be back doing construction to feed my family and stuff like that," Alexander said on Insight with Chris Van Vliet.

"But every so often you gotta bet on yourself. Five years ago it was Santana, one of my very good friends, and he was finishing up with TNA, at the time IMPACT Wrestling, we had an indie date, and he actually debuted the next night, but I didn't know that. He never told me anything like that. So we're just chilling out of the hotel. It's just like, what made you want to leave or really look at it as an option because he's very happy at IMPACT, they were very successful, obviously. And he was like, we just didn't know what more we could do. We've held these tag team championships this many times. We've had this many amazing matches with this tag team and this tag team. It's just like, every once in a while you got to think about what's coming next and what's going to excite you. Because he kind of alluded to the fact that he hadn't been excited in quite some time. And I was just like, man, that really hits," he continued.

"Because now I'm thinking about my own thing. I'm just like, I've done so much in TNA over the six years. I'm very grateful for it. Because opportunities are the one thing wrestlers need, and TNA has given me tons of countless opportunities to prove myself and show what I can do, but I've also done everything and worked with the bulk of the talent that's in that company right now. So it's just all about what's going to get me excited beyond this point?"

The 37-year-old doesn't have a preference for his next destination, though, and he is open to working for WWE, AEW, and in Japan.

"I'm looking at everywhere right now, like. Both my sons are wrestling nuts, especially my six-year-old. So, Monday is Raw, Tuesday is NXT, Wednesday is Dynamite, Thursday is IMPACT. I'm watching everything with my kids all week long, which is awesome, because I get to share this passion with them, but at the same time I'm watching the product, looking at NXT being like, man, me and Ethan could tag up and we can face that tag team, that'd be awesome. I'd really love to have a match with Pete Dunne or Gunther, the list goes on," Alexander added.

"Then you watch Dynamite, and I'm just like, man, I've torn it up with Will [Ospreay] and Takeshita in the past, I would sure love to do that on a bigger stage. And one bucket list thing I might have, a wrestler that's still out there wrestling that I would really love to get a chance to wrestle is Edge. He's in AEW, you know what I mean? And there's Japan, Shingo is the one guy on my bucket list, this is doable. I'm gonna make this happen. Him and Ishii were neck and neck, and I made the Ishii match happen. Shingo is the other one. So I just look at the landscape of it, where I can go and where the talent is I want to work with everybody's kind of stacked, roster-wise. To be able to tell stories and stuff like that with these people, the options are all open."

Josh Alexander has been one of TNA Wrestling's top stars since signing with the promotion in 2019. He is a two-time IMPACT World Champion, one-time X-Division Champion, and two-time IMPACT World Tag Team Champion with Ethan Page in The North.

Alexander was originally looking to test free agency in early 2024 but TNA activated an option in his contract to extend his deal by one year.

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