Josh Alexander recently spoke with Wrestle Zone for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, “The Walking Weapon” reflected on when he knew he would be returning from injury at the IMPACT Slammiversary special event.
Featured below are some of the highlights.
On how he only knew he would be making his return three days ahead of Slammiversary: “Oh, maybe 72 hours? I knew I was feeling good. I knew I had my appointment with my doctor for the checkup, and he was saying optimistically, the best was mid-July. We of course were in early July, and Scott D’Amore gave me a call a few days before, and he said, ‘We’re going to bring you in here, we’re gonna do this, this, and this.’ I had already been training in-ring as I moved down here to Windsor. So I’d been training in-ring, so Scott had seen me in the ring, trying to get some movements out and see if I still had it and stuff like that. I was feeling good, so we were all very confident in that. Obviously, we held off another month from any in-ring action to kind of give me that buffer zone there, but things are good.”
On adjusting certain aspects of his game to protect the arm he injured: “Yeah, there’s obvious movements that involve my tricep that would be more strenuous on it that I planned to avoid. But then once you get in the mix with everything, you just kind of fall into those old habits of how it happened. They say it’s like riding a bike. All those things kind of got thrown to the wayside and I just ended up doing them anyway, and it felt fine. It was all just the mental hurdles of wanting to avoid these things, being afraid of these things happening again. As I learned with my neck eight years ago now, when I came back from my neck injury, you can’t really go in with any hesitations and any of those mind-blocks in there because you’re just going to injure yourself elsewhere, you’re gonna compromise yourself somehow. So I just threw it all out there, and it’s been fine.”
Check out the complete interview at WrestleZone.com.
