Chris Bey Doesn't Rule Out Eventually Wrestling Again, Provides Update On Current Condition

Chris Bey doesn’t rule out making a wrestling return, despite the TNA star having suffered paralysis during a severe in-ring incident in late 2024.

Bey recently broke his silence after the incident in October 2024, with ‘The Ultimate Finesser’ able to walk again after initially fearing the worst after breaking his neck. Bey recently spoke with Chris Van Vliet, and said the following about his recovery, and his chances of wrestling again:

"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.

"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,” said Bey.

As for how he is currently feeling, Bey added the following:

“I am good to stand for as long as I am and people offer me seats. They're like if we're standing around, they're like ‘please sit down’ and sometimes I'll do it. But standing is better for me right now, actually, because when I sit down too long, my body locks up still, and I get spasms, still on a lot of medication to numb and block out the pain and also help enhance my and rejuvenate my muscles and my spinal cord. So I prefer to stand and honestly when I sit too long, I feel the effects of that,” said Bey, adding the following when asked if he is currently in pain:

"It's just numb, it's discomfort. It's not pain. So my body's more numb. My spinal cord is numb. I can maybe feel about 50% of the sensation in my hands, from the middle of my hand down to my elbow about the long head of my tricep on both hands are still numb. So I can feel this side of my arm, I can't feel this side of my arm on both hands, so I have a lot of numbness still, but it's not a lot of pain. So I still can't do, I'm not able to yet, do a lot of things, but it takes time. I'm told that nerves take a very long time to replenish."