Josh Alexander

Joshua Lemay (born May 29, 1987) is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he performs under the ring name Josh Alexander.

He is a two-time TNA World Champion, with his second reign being the longest reign in the company's history at 335 days, and a one-time TNA X Division Champion.

A tag-team specialist, Alexander is also a two-time Impact World Tag Team Champion with Ethan Page as The North, with their first reign being the longest reign in the company's history at 380 days, as well as a one-time PWG World Tag Team Champion with Page as Monster Mafia.

He has also held the AAW Heavyweight Championship once.

Josh Alexander was trained to wrestle by Johnny Devine.

He debuted in 2005.

He then started his career on the regional Canadian independent circuit.

He met fellow wrestler Ethan Page in the Alpha-1 promotion in Ontario in 2010, where the two became close friends.

A year later, they formed the tag team Monster Mafia where they wrestled for various promotions including Ring of Honor (ROH) and AAW Wrestling.

In 2013 he suffered a neck injury during an AAW match.

After taking time off to heal, he returned to action.

A few months after, he reinjured his neck during a ROH tryout match with ReDRagon.

He had herniated a disk so he would have his C5–C6 vertebrae fused to fix the injury.

However, he did not take time off during this time and kept the injury a secret, not wanting to squander the opportunity to work with ROH.

In February 2015, Monster Mafia debuted for Pro Wrestling Guerilla (PWG), facing The Young Bucks in their first match.

He injured his neck again in a match with Matt Sydal and Chris Sabin.

Alexander again worked through it, with he and Page participating in the annual Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament in May.

They won the PWG World Tag Team Championship in the first round match with Joey Ryan and Candice LeRae.

The reign was short-lived, as they lost it later that night.

Alexander had neck surgery in July 2015, and he retired from wrestling.

After he and Page went their separate ways, he wrestled for Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW), Progress Wrestling, and Beyond Wrestling, among other promotions.

Alexander began appearing in Impact Wrestling in 2018 by making appearances on Xplosion as an enhancement talent against the likes of Killer Kross and Matt Sydal.

In February 2019, Alexander signed a three-year contract with the promotion.

Impact Wrestling subsequently hyped Alexander's debut with an online documentary made by Toronto-based filmmaker Glen Matthews.

Alexander reformed with Ethan Page under the name The North, as they defeated El Reverso and Sheldon Jean on the April 12 episode of Impact! while subsequently establishing himself as a heel.

North teamed up with Moose to defeat The Rascalz in a six-man tag team match at Rebellion, marking Alexander's pay-per-view debut in Impact.

On the June 14 episode of Impact!, North defeated Rob Van Dam and Sabu to earn a title shot against The Latin American Xchange (Santana and Ortiz) for the World Tag Team Championship at the Bash at the Brewery event on July 5.

North defeated LAX at the event to win the titles for the first time.

North retained the titles against LAX and The Rascalz in a three-way match at Slammiversary in their first title defense.

North went on to retain the titles throughout the rest of the year against Reno Scum and the team of Rich Swann and Willie Mack at Unbreakable, the team of Swann and Mack and the team of Rob Van Dam and Rhino at Bound for Glory and Swann and Mack at Turning Point.

They became the longest-reigning World Tag Team Champions as they retained the titles in 2020 against Willie Mack in a handicap match at Hard To Kill, The Rascalz at Sacrifice and the team of Ken Shamrock and Sami Callihan at Slammiversary until they lost it against The Motor City Machine Guns on the July 21 episode of Impact!.

The North unsuccessfully challenged Motor City Machine Guns in a rematch for the World Tag Team Championship at Emergence but regained the titles at Bound for Glory, before lost it a few weeks later to The Good Brothers at Turning Point.

Then, Alexander and Page started a storyline where they did not work well together, leading to Page's departure from Impact.

Following the departure of Ethan Page, Alexander returned to singles competition.

He faced Brian Myers at the Hard To Kill pre-show in a losing effort.

On the January 19 episode of Impact!, Alexander turned face when he confronted Ace Austin backstage.

He was subsequently assaulted by Austin and Madman Fulton until new signee Matt Cardona came to even the odds.

This culminated in a tag team match the following week, where Alexander and Cardona emerged victorious.

At No Surrender, Alexander won a Triple Threat Revolver match to be the number one contender to the Impact X Division Championship, where he lost against TJP on the February 16 episode of Impact!.

At Rebellion, he defeated Ace Austin and TJP to win the X Division Championship for the first time.