Cedric Alexander on NXT run: ‘I didn’t feel important’
Cedric Alexander compared his experiences in WWE and TNA, admitting that he did not feel particularly useful during his time in NXT due to a lack of opportunities and consistent direction.
Alexander told Soundsphere Magazine about his TNA tenure in comparison to NXT where he did not feel ‘important’.
“It really is. Especially in a time when, like, I was down in NXT a while, I didn’t feel important, I didn’t feel useful. Ever since coming to TNA, I found my spot. I feel useful. There’s things for me to do. There’s ways that I can help, and grow. Not only grow myself, but grow the business. I feel like I’m doing something instead of sitting idly by and watching the world pass me by. Like I say, man, it’s something I couldn’t and wouldn’t change for the world.”
The X-Division Champion discussed the significance of the TNA title, reflecting on what it represents, considering the legacy of the wrestlers who have held it before him.
“To me the X Division Championship means everything that wrestling is today because if you look back at you know the pioneers of X Division Title you know you got your Samoa Joe’s, your Christopher Daniels, your AJ Styles, Amazing Red, the Motor City Machine Guns, all guys who have solidified what it means to be X division, right? But now you take a look at what they’ve done. They’ve all molded wrestling to be the X Division essentially. Like AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Daniels, The Guns, everyone loves them as wrestlers and copies them. Like everyone, they’re the favorite wrestler’s favorite wrestler. You can’t tell me a single wrestler today that hasn’t been influenced in some fashion by either the X Division or one of the men who pioneered what it means to be X Division.”
Alexander was released by WWE in February 2025 and nearly four months later debuted on TNA. On the May 14 edition of TNA IMPACT, he captured the X Division Championship by ending Leon Slater’s 298 day reign.
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