| The North | |
|---|---|
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| Tag team | |
| Members | Ethan Page Josh Alexander |
| Name(s) | The North The Monster Mafia |
| Combined billed weight | 480 lb (220 kg) |
| Billed from | Ontario,Canada |
| Debut | September 24, 2011 (2011-09-24) |
| Disbanded | January 1, 2021 (2021-01-01) |
| Years active | 2011–2015 2019–2021 |
The North was a Canadianprofessional wrestlingtag team, consisting ofEthan Page andJosh Alexander inImpact Wrestling, where they are former two timeWorld Tag Team Champions. Their first reign with the title was the longest reign in the history of the Impact World Tag Team Championship. They also competed for various promotions onindependent circuit.
The team was formed in 2011 asMonster Mafia in the Canadian independent circuit and competed in various independent promotions across the United States and Canada winning numerous tag team titles including thePWG World Tag Team Championshiponce.
Ethan Page stated in a 2020 interview that he used thePWI 500 as an incentive to urge them to work as a tag team pointing out that that area had fewer teams in it, stating "I'll be the loudmouth and you’ll be the ass-kicker, and we’ll become a tag team and start traveling the roads."[1] They made their debut together as a tag team by defeating 4Saken at a Real Championship Wrestling (RCW) event No Remorse. Monster Mafia competed in various independent promotions in the United States and Canada. They won their first tag team titles on September 1, 2013, by defeatingThe Young Bucks to win the IWL Tag Team Championship at an Insane Wrestling League (IWL) event New Era 8. They held the titles for over a year before losing them back to Young Bucks at New Era 9 on September 28, 2014. They defeated The Goat Brigade to capture the Fringe Pro Wrestling (FPW) Tag Team Championship at FPW's The Showdown. They successfully defended the titles against Goat Brigade at Locked and Loaded until the titles were vacated on October 12.
North would win their next tag team titles by defeating The Besties in the World and The Crew in a three-way match at The Wrestling Revolver event Afraid of the Dark on July 26, 2019. At Alpha-1 Wrestling's event The Purge IV, North won a gauntlet match to win the A1 Tag Team Championship.
Monster Mafia made theirRing of Honor debut at their supercard A New Dawn on September 28, 2013, in a tag team match againstReDRagon, which they lost.[2] Monster Mafia would make a few more sporadic appearances for ROH. They appeared on the July 26, 2014 episode ofRing of Honor Wrestling, where Page competed under a new ring name "Ethan Gabriel Owens" as they unsuccessfully challenged ReDRagon for theWorld Tag Team Championship.[3] They lost toThe Decade atDeath Before Dishonor XII.[4] AtAll Star Extravaganza VI, they competed in a four-corner survival match against Decade, the team ofMoose andR.D. Evans and the team ofCaprice Coleman andTakaaki Watanabe, which Moose and Evans won.[5] This would be Monster Mafia's last match in ROH.
Monster Mafia debuted forPro Wrestling Guerrilla at From Out of Nowhere on February 27, 2015, where they competed against The Young Bucks in a losing effort.[6] Monster Mafia made its next appearance at Don't Sweat The Technique, losing toChris Sabin andMatt Sydal.[7] Monster Mafia participated in the2015 DDT4 tournament, where they defeatedWorld's Cutest Tag Team, due to interference byRoderick Strong, to capture theWorld Tag Team Championship in the quarter-final round and defended the titles against Beaver Boys in the semi-final, which they lost.[8] Monster Mafia would lose to World's Cutest Tag Team in their final PWG appearance at Mystery Vortex III: Rock And Shock The Nation.[9] After the title match, the team disbanded since Alexander retired from pro wrestling.[10]
Page joinedImpact Wrestling in 2017 and briefly competed as Chandler Park, thestoryline cousin ofAbyss until he made his re-debut as Page on the October 4, 2018 episode ofImpact Wrestling.[11] He competed in theX Division throughout fall 2018 and early 2019 until he reunited Monster Mafia with Josh Alexander in Impact Wrestling. Alexander made his debut in Impact on the April 12 episode ofImpact Wrestling alongside Page in a tag team match as they changed their team name to "The North", defeating Sheldon Jean and El Reverso in a tag team match.[12] AtRebellion, North teamed withMoose to defeatThe Rascalz in a six-man tag team match. On the June 14 episode ofImpact Wrestling, North defeatedRob Van Dam andSabu to earn a title shot for theWorld Tag Team Championship atBash at the Brewery, where North defeatedThe Latin American Exchange (Santana and Ortiz) to win the tag team titles.[13][14] They successfully defended the titles against LAX and Rascalz (Dez and Wentz) in a three-way match atSlammiversary XVII. North would successfully defend the titles against Rascalz on the August 2 episode ofImpact Wrestling.[15] They made their next successful title defense againstReno Scum and the team ofRich Swann andWillie Mack in a three-way match atUnbreakable.
North retained the titles against LAX on the August 9 episode ofImpact Wrestling.[16] North would successfully defend the title against Reno Scum at Cali Combat.[17] On the September 6 episode ofImpact Wrestling, North defeated LAX to retain the World Tag Team Championship, which resulted in LAX being forced to leave Impact Wrestling.[18] The duo defended theWorld Tag Team Championships in Canada against questionable challengers, including againstCody Deaner and Wheels Deaner at the Deaner Compound.[19] They eventually returned on the June 16Impact! to defeatThe Rascalz (Dez andWentz) in a title match.[20] Unfortunately, no one was watching backstage, and were instead watching Ken Shamrock's Greatest Hits onImpact Plus. The next week, Page went on about people watching Shamrock instead of them, leading to Shamrock challenging Alexander to a match that night. However, The North would attack Shamrock before he even got in the ring.[21] The following week, The North came to address their assault, only for Shamrock to come out looking for a fight. He was eventually joined by Sami Callihan, fighting off The North alongside his rival before disappearing into the night.[22] EVPScott D'Amore, looking to appease to an irate Ethan Page, scheduled a tag team title match between The North and the team of Shamrock and Callihan for Slammiversary.[23] At the event, Alexander and Page were able to defend the titles against Callihan and Shamrock. After the match, they were challenged byThe Motor City Machine Guns for an Impact World Tag Team Championship match on the following episode of Impact. On the July 21 episode ofImpact! The North were defeated by the Motor City Machine Guns ending their record 383-day reign as champions. On October 25, The North won the title for the second time, when they defeated The Motor City Machine Guns atBound for Glory in afour-way tag team match, also involvingThe Good Brothers (Doc Gallows andKarl Anderson) and the team ofAce Austin andMadman Fulton.[24] On November 14, atTurning Point, The North lost the title to The Good Brothers, ending their reign at 21 days.[25] Then, Alexander and Page started a storyline where they didn't work well together, leading to Page's departure from Impact and the disbanding of The North.[26]
After Page's exit, he joinedAll Elite Wrestling in March 2021, debuting atRevolution in the Face of the Revolution ladder match. Page would remain in AEW for three years, failing to win any titles but being a prominent player in its midcard division, and being a part of theAmerican Top Team and the Firm stables. Page would leave AEW in February 2024 forWWE, where he debuted on itsNXT brand in May.
As for Alexander, he remained in IMPACT, where he won theX-Division Championship later in 2021, and would cash it in againstIMPACT World ChampionChristian Cage atBound For Glory, winning the title.Alexander would defeatMoose for his second IMPACT World Title atRebellion 2022, holding it for almost a year before dropping it due to injury in March 2023. Alexander would return atSlammiversary, but would fail to regain the title. Alexander would remain in IMPACT (later reverted back to the TNA name) before leaving the company in February 2025.
