Frankie Kazarian reveals he’s been wrestling with surgically repaired hand
Former TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian has been wrestling since last December with a surgically repaired hand.
The veteran took to X Monday to reveal the news, saying he defended the title against Mike Santana last Thursday in the main event of TNA’s AMC debut and the follow-up Texas Death Match at Saturday’s Genesis “29 days out of a surgically repaired fracture of the first metacarpal bone of my right hand.”
He said he suffered the injury during his December 7 title defense against Bear Bronson in El Paso, Texas, that aired that following Thursday.
Kazarian was upbeat for his future, however.
“It didn’t stop me then, it won’t stop me now,” he wrote.
As of now, Kazarian hasn’t been announced for this Thursday’s live Impact from Albuquerque, New Mexico. It’s unknown whether he will take time off to recover now now that the AMC debut and Genesis have passed.
Kazarian held the TNA title for 63 days before losing it last Thursday.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.