TJ Wilson has been in contact with Chris Bey.
Bey suffered a neck injury that required surgery in October 2024. In February, he posted a video of himself walking, and he said that he would not give up. Various members of the wrestling world have voiced their support for Bey throughout his recovery.
Speaking on Developmentally Speaking, TJ Wilson, who was forced to retire from the ring due to a serious neck injury, noted that he had been in contact with Bey, and he said that Bey inspired him.
“A Chris Bey, for example. I’ve been in contact with him this whole time, DMing him. I’ve told him this whole time, ‘You’re gonna make a full recovery,’ and I truly believe that. Some of it’s from experience, but I was never truly in the same situation he was in. I was in a different version, but a similar one. So I tell him, some days are gonna be really hard, and these are going to just sound like words, but just know you can’t give up. The second you give up, it’s over. It’s absolutely over, in anything. If you keep going, you don’t know what’s on that other side. You don’t know. Chris Bey, I tell him…I was at my ring, he sent me a video of him standing up by himself. I was emotional. I was like, ‘Man, you inspire the hell out of me, man.’ Like I said, I’ve been in this business for 30 years, I’ve seen a lot. I’m inspired all the time by people, and I’ve never even met Chris Bey. I’ve never physically met this man yet. Mine and Nattie’s ultimate plan is to bring him to the dungeon. We really want to do that when the time’s right. But look at his progress. It’s because he just keeps pushing. He doesn’t give up. In that situation, put myself in a similar situation to him, you can’t give up. The worst feeling, getting hurt was brutal, and the paralysis was the scariest thing ever, but fast-forward a few weeks, when I had the surgery, when I woke up from the surgery was the worst, outside the paralysis, waking up from the surgery was the worst I felt because they had to cut through my head, so now my head was throbbing, on top of my neck. It was awful. I remember waking up and being like, ‘I wish I didn’t get this surgery.’ Then it was a process, and I couldn’t give up. I don’t know. That’s always my thing. Once we give up on whatever it is, it’s over. Again, that may not be a terrible thing sometimes. Sometimes, it’s a part of life. But it will be definite that it’s over," Wilson said.
Natalya previously said that Bey is a massive inspiration for the students at The Dungeon. Click here to see what she had to say.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the TNA star as he recovers. Fans can donate to the GoFundMe by clicking here.
Fightful continues to wish Bey the best as he continues to recover.
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