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Ex-TNA Star Heading Back To The Ring After 2 Strokes

By Lyle Kilbane • Published Dec 02, 2025 05:50 EST
TNA logo Jonathan Gresham

A former ROH and TNA star is on their way back to the ring just a few short months after suffering two strokes.

In early August, Jonathan Gresham revealed that he’d suffered two strokes while at home. He explained that after waking up, he was unable to move the left side of his body, and he was struggling to talk.

As a result, it took him more than 30 minutes to call 911, but once taken to the hospital, he quickly underwent a series of tests. While doctors suggested that the strokes might have been linked to a bad case of COVID-19 two weeks earlier, at the time, the cause remained a mystery.

Speaking with Adrian Hernandez, Gresham’s wife, WWE star Jordynne Grace, was asked about his progress. Despite the severity of the situation, she explained that the former ROH star is already back to 100% and is waiting to be cleared to get back in the ring:

It was very scary. He’s actually bounced back incredibly well. He’s at 100 percent. He’s cleared right now to do pretty much everything, like work out. Everything besides wrestle. It’s insane, and I said the same thing. I talked to the doctor about it extensively. I was like, ‘This is crazy.’ But they say, basically, he’s so young and that’s why he bounced back so fast.

They’re really now just trying to figure out why this might have happened, but there’s this whole thing of, maybe we’ll never know. Maybe it was just a COVID complication. Sometimes these things just happen. So hopefully we’ll be able to figure it out at some point, but he will be cleared to go back to wrestling in like a matter of weeks.

And miraculously, it looks like Grace was right.

Ex-TNA Star Back In Action

Jonathan Gresham has now been announced for the Jersey J-Cup at a joint show between GCW and Jersey Championship Wrestling on February 6th and 7th in Jersey City, NJ.

Jonathan Gresham is a former ROH World Champion and also held the Pure Title and the ROH Tag Team Championship with Jay Lethal. In 2022, he competed in a handful of matches for AEW but did not sign with Tony Khan’s company. He also spent two years with TNA, finishing up with the company at the end of 2024.