The REAL Reason Josh Alexander Wears Headgear, Winning The Impact World Championship, Ethan Page

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Mental Health, Business, Sports, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Josh Alexander (@walking_weapon) is a professional wrestler and the current Impact Wrestling World Champion. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about his unlikely path to becoming a wrestler, getting discovered in Canada, making a name for himself in Ring Of Honor, becoming friends and eventually tag team partners with Ethan Page, how much interest there was from AEW when he let his Impact Wrestling contract expire, beating Christian Cage to become the shortest reigning Impact World Champion of all time and now being on the verge of being the longest reigning Champion, involving his family in storylines, why Scott D'Amore is good for wrestling and much more! For more information about Chris Van Vliet and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blit!
0:07.3	And here we go.
0:10.8	Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight, episode 421.
0:16.7	I'm StevieV, Chris Van Fleet, and we've got someone on the show who honestly should have been on the show a long, long time ago.
0:24.6	I've known Josh Alexander for over 10 years, and it's just been so amazing seeing his career explode over the last few years in Impact Wrestling.
0:33.8	He is the longest reigning Impact tag team champion with Ethan Page as part of the North.
0:39.3	Now he's encroaching on being the longest reigning impact world champion.
0:44.3	He's less than a month away as we record this.
0:47.6	And yeah, sure, and we talk about it here.
0:50.2	He's the shortest reigning champion at like three minutes, but that is beside the point,
0:55.4	because I really feel like he's going to beat Bobby Roode's record and become the longest
0:59.8	reigning champ.
1:01.1	If you're not following him, he's at Walking underscore Weapon.
1:05.0	If you're not following me, I'm at Chris Van Vleet.
1:08.4	If you're not following the show, what are you waiting for?
1:12.3	Like, seriously, we've put out, I think, 120 episodes this year.
1:16.8	So please, if you're listening to this and you haven't followed the show,
1:19.8	if you're not subscribed to the show, wherever you're listening to this,
1:22.3	take a second and click subscriber follow on whatever app it is that you're listening on right now. If it happens to
1:28.3	be Apple Podcasts, please leave a few words, leave a review like this one from G-Flow 7, who said
1:34.7	love it. Really enjoyed the Cold Plunge episode recently. Hmm, so did I. Chris asked great questions
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