Josh Alexander used to work as a truck technician during his time on the independent circuit, and he recently shared the lessons his previous job taught him.
The former Impact Wrestling World Champion appeared on Cody Deaner’s podcast, and you can check out some highlights below:
On getting his start in wrestling: “I always say I would be homeless or dead if I didn’t have wrestling and indie wrestling. I don’t know why. It was probably my upbringing. I didn’t get taught responsibility, really. So when I went away to university and I had this money saved up from working my Dairy Queen job or whatever it was, I blew through that really quick because I had no idea what the value of a dollar was and all this other stuff. But I had this wrestling thing I wanted to do, and I started working the independents. I realized that I need gas money to drive to all these random towns all over Ontario if I want to get booked and start building my career. And it made me happy again. So I got a job. I got the worst job.”
On how the job helped him: “Anybody I talk to says that a tire technician, somebody who changes tires on the side of the highway for transport trucks and trailers and construction equipment, is one of the worst jobs in the world,” Alexander added. “I did that job for a decade as a pro wrestler on the indies because I could get time off. Because most people in that industry have problems with drinking or other things like that. It’s an issue. Me being so dependable to be there every Monday at 5 AM and work my 12 hours every day would allow me to get Fridays off once in a while for shows and stuff like that. It taught me that I loved wrestling more than basically anything, too.”
On the latest edition of the “Talk is Jericho” podcast, QT Marshall discussed the original inspiration for his QTV stable in AEW.
According to Marshall, the heel faction was inspired by the Adam Sandberg comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Marshall said.
“Tony said ‘Have you ever seen the movie Popstar?. I said ‘No.’ He said ‘Well if you look at it, they make fun of TMZ.’ So he showed me the clip, and he loved the clip. And I said ‘Okay.’ And this was all supposed to be — the payoff was going to be that it was all good stuff about Will Hobbs. We bury everybody else, and it would end up that I was with Powerhouse Hobbs.”
“That’s what was supposed to start. But then, when the Wardlow match happened. It was Hobbs vs. Wardlow in Hobbs’ hometown, so it was like ‘Alright, what are we going to do? QT, we’re going to put you with him now.’ I was like ‘Okay. Let’s do it.’ Then we kind of had to go backward.”
