Current AEW star Josh Alexander, now aligned with the Don Callis Family, recently shared that his journey to All Elite Wrestling almost began at the company’s inception in 2019. Speaking on “The Wrestling Classic on Casual Conversations,” Alexander revealed he reached out to The Young Bucks about joining the then-fledgling promotion but was told the timing wasn’t right.
This occurred before Alexander signed with TNA, where he would go on to have a highly successful run, becoming a multi-time World Champion. “Full disclosure, before I signed with TNA, I heard murmurs of this new company starting up… I had worked with the Bucks, so I reached out to one of them and was like, ‘Is this a real thing?’” Alexander recounted.
When he expressed his interest in being part of AEW, the response was not what he hoped for at the time. “They were like, ‘Yeah.’ [I asked], ‘Would there be any interest in me because I would love to be part of something like this.’ They said, ‘Not right now,’” he shared.
This led Alexander to TNA Wrestling. “That’s when TNA came along and I went there. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to go to TNA,” he stated, reflecting philosophically: “Being older and little wiser, I’ve come to understand that everything does happen for a reason… everything works out in the end.” His eventual AEW debut in 2025 came after years of building his reputation elsewhere.
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