Josh Alexander and Will Ospreay are poised to have big weekends in Chicago.
IMPACT Wrestling just announced a huge match for its Bound For Glory Fallout show. Josh Alexander vs. Will Ospreay was announced on Wednesday morning. The match will take place at the Bound For Glory Fallout show on October 22, the day after the Bound For Glory pay-per-view.
The match carries the stipulation that if Alexander beats Alex Shelley at the pay-per-view the night before, Alexander vs. Ospreay will be a world title match.
This will be the first-ever match between the two.
The updated Bound For Glory pay-per-view card is below:
IMPACT Bound For Glory 2023
- IMPACT World Championship – Alex Shelley (c) vs. Josh Alexander
- IMPACT Knockouts World Championship – Trinity (c) vs. Mickie James
- IMPACT X-Division Championship – Chris Sabin (c) vs. KENTA
- Will Ospreay vs. Mike Bailey
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Maybe Not Super Cena, But Super Close
WrestleZone spoke with Josh Alexander about his return to IMPACT after being sidelined due to injury. Alexander said he had about 72 hours notice before he knew he’d be at Slammiversary. Pritchard noted how it was expected that Alexander would be out much longer. Were there any exaggerations about his return timeframe to make it more of a surprise?
“When I initially got the surgery the third week of March, I flew straight to TVs to hand over the title belt and all that stuff. The original prognosis from the doctor was, ‘You know, everybody’s different. Four to eight months is usually the window there.’ And I was [thinking] that four-month window [between] month four to month eight seems really, really long. But Punk recently did the exact same injury as me. He tore his tricep. It took him something like the better part of eight to nine months to come back.
“That four to eight-month window, I just wanted to do as much as I could to make sure it was closer to four than it was to eight. Luckily all I had to do at home was be a dad, take care of my kids, and then go to the gym and do rehab,” Alexander said. “I just dug myself into that the best I could. Slammiversary is the big weekend, usually the weekend where there’s always some big surprises. I’m really happy to be figured into that and to be one of the marquee surprises to come back. I don’t know if it’s quite on ‘Super Cena’ levels, but I was pretty close. I definitely made sure I was closer to that four-month window than I was to eight months.”
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