TNA’s Chris Bey Won’t Rule Out Return Despite Broken Neck

TNA star Chris Bey has opened up on a possible return to the ring.

During a match with The Hardys on October 27th, Chris Bey suffered a broken neck after a move went wrong, leaving him paralyzed. Over the following months, Bey began to regain movement and was able to walk again in February.

While he is concentrating on recovery right now, Bey is open to a return to the ring. The star told Chris Van Vliet that the say after his neck surgery, he believed his career was over, but his attitude soon changed to, “Never say never.”

“Never say never, right? The day after day one, the day after the surgery, I was very content and understanding that my career was over. I didn’t see a world where I came back to wrestling. I was laying there, couldn’t move anything from the neck down.

“It felt like I had passed away, because there’s all this love for me online, they say you get your flowers when you’re gone. There’s all this love for me online that everyone’s telling me about and everyone’s calling me and having people reach out to me who I’ve never my wildest dreams imagined reach out to me. They’re making video packages about me. It was like I was watching and spectating my life and my life is now over, and wrestling is my life. It was my life. It is my life. It still consumes me.

“In that moment I was like okay, wrestling is over. I want to one day have a family. I want to be able to one day stand and run and play with my kids one day. Family was something I never thought about in my early 20s, but in my later 20s now being 29 is very important to me. It’s something that I want so badly, not now, but one day, and the the thought of never being able to achieve that broke me.

“That broke me, and that drove me more than anything because I had a great eight years in wrestling. Eight years, that was it, but I did so much in eight years that lived my wildest dreams. I feel like I made an impact on the world. I was able to help train, coach and motivate people who are in the game today.”

Chris Bey is focused on just being “able to function,” but looking ahead he thinks an in-ring return could lead to the greatest story ever told.

“It’s a dream career, if it had to end, if it’s over now, cool. I want to walk, I want to stand, I want to be able to function. And then maybe a couple weeks ago now I’m walking again and I’m back in the gym. I told my girl, I was like, ‘What if I do wrestle again one day? I’m still young. What if I took five years off, if I took four years off and came back in my mid-30s?’ It’s possible. It’s been done before. Nothing’s impossible, and that’s where the greatest story ever told is born.”

Chris Bey Details Moment He Knew Something Was Wrong

During the same interview, Chris Bey went into detail on the moment he broke his neck. The star says he “felt a jolt” after missing a neckbreaker by an inch. Initially thinking it was just a stinger, Bey began to realise the situation was bad when he experienced “a numbness” and couldn’t move out of the way of the other wrestlers in the ring.

Fans are also able to support Chris Bey by donating to his GoFundMe page.

H/T to ITR Wrestling for the above transcription.