Chris Bey says he’s ‘100 times’ better now than he was one year ago
Almost a year after his injury, Chris Bey has finally opened up about his current condition.
Over a year ago, during a television taping for TNA, Chris Bey suffered a devastating neck injury while performing his “1,2 Sweet” tag-team finishing move with Ace Austin. Following a brutal landing, Bey was left without movement in his body and required immediate emergency surgery. Now, a year later, while speaking to Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawlor of Wrestling Observer Live, Bey has opened up about his current condition.
“In reality, my lower back is still very tight and inflamed. Airplanes destroy my legs right now and are inflaming my legs a lot. I have days where I get out of bed and I have to just tell myself to not do anything all day and I just lay in the house and have to rest.”
“I’m out of physical therapy now, but I do a lot of maintenance on my body like shock wave treatments, cupping, dry needling in my neck,” Bey noted. “I do a lot of different things to try to, relieve some of the pain that I’m going through, and at first my body was still numb even after I first got on my feet up until maybe, July.”
He further opened up about his current physical state and claimed, “My legs, you know, my waist down was still pretty numb. I could probably only feel 30% of it, 40% of it.”
Feeling ‘100 times’ better than what he was last year, Bey stated, “I know if someone came in here and was chasing me, I’m not gonna escape, you know, so, so I know the difference between what was normal. But this is 100 times better than where I was a year ago from today, so I, I don’t complain about it.”
Further Bey opened up about his recovery process and claimed, “Whereas now I’m getting a lot of feeling back, which is great, but now it’s turning into the pain that I didn’t feel initially because I just couldn’t feel. So when I’m walking, I feel it in my hips, I feel it in my knees, I feel it in my low back if I’m standing for long periods of time. I feel my low back starting to compress, if I’m sitting or laying down, no matter what, it activates my spasms whenever I stand up and have to move again.“
Overcome the small 10-25% chance of walking again, Chris Bey is now back inside the squared circle coaching future wrestling aspirants.
