Josh Alexander explains how Tony Khan's caring personality influenced his decision to sign with AEW.
Josh Alexander became a free agent in February 2025, and shortly thereafter, he joined the AEW roster and became one of the newest members of the Don Callis Family. He was a sought-after free agent, but one thing determined his decision: the way Tony Khan treats his employees.
During an interview with Shakiel Mahjouri, the former TNA Wrestling World Champion explained that he sees Tony as a boss who cares for the people working for him. This reminded him of his great relationship with former TNA president Scott D'Amore, and he decided that he wanted to go somewhere where he wouldn't be seen as just another asset.
"I read all the criticism and all the speculation on why I made my choice and stuff. From the second I met Tony Khan during the COVID era in TNA, I got this impression that as a boss, he's somebody that actually cares for his employees. You're not just a number. You're not just an asset to the company. He actually cares about you," said Alexander. "That's something that means a great deal to me. In working for Scott D'Amore in TNA, I developed a relationship with him, and there's a lot of trust that goes into this stuff. So I just wasn't comfortable working somewhere where I just be an asset, something that you could just toss away in an instant, and stuff like that.
"I wanted somebody that's going to care about me and care about the fact that I have a family that I'm feeding and that I do have such a passion for this," he continued, "and I hope we share that passion and stuff like that. It's that this locker room is full of people that I've known and worked with over the past 20 years, and I've developed relationship with, relationships with and it's because, there's people like Edge, Chris, Jericho, Kenny Omega, in this company that I have never wrestled, that I've dreamed of wrestling for decades. So that all made it very easy for me to make my decision."
Elsewhere in this interview, he spoke about turning down an opportunity to compete in a championship match at WWE NXT Stand and Deliver. Learn more here.
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