In a recent interview with Prime Time Conversations to promote this Saturday’s IMPACT Rebellion pay-per-view, former IMPACT World Champion Josh Alexander discussed several topics, including pitches of a new Team Canada forming in IMPACT Wrestling over the years.
“It crossed my mind, I pitched it a few times and if we’re being honest, there was a moment it was pitched to us where they were thinking about putting together a new edition of Team Canada, I think it was me and Ethan, Eric Young and I think Taya and maybe somebody else was going to be involved, but you know, it was one of those things that was like, we might do this and then, you show up at the next taping and it’s like, we’re not doing any of that. It was just an idea that was kind of thrown out there, and you get excited for it, because you know, The Hart Foundation, Team Canada, all that stuff, that’s my kind of thing, that’s why I have maple leaves on my gear, I’m always going to champion where I’m from. Maybe it will happen in the future, you never say never in wrestling.”
On who he would have in a Team Canada given the current wrestling landscape, Alexander noted that it would be himself, ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey, Taya Valkyrie and Le Tabarnak de Team (Mathieu St-Jacques & Thomas Dubois), the latter of who are a tag team based out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
“I think that you need people that are going to check boxes for every kind of division right, so if I’m going to be the Heavyweight Champion kind of guy, I would be that and then, I would bring ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey, he would be my first round pick for the X-Division, I would bring in Taya to be the Knockouts Division and I need to find a Canadian tag team. There’s a tag team in Montreal called TDT, Tabarnak de Team and you know, I don’t know if everybody knows who they are, but I think that they would be a valuable part to the locker room as a Canadian tag team, so I wouldn’t mind bringing them in and giving them a shot.”
The full interview is available at this link.