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KC Navarro is among nan rising talents connected nan Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) roster and has been successful nan title speech since he returned from a superior knee injury.
Navarro was retired for respective months recovering from a torn ACL he suffered past year. He told Fox News Digital successful a caller question and reply he was emotion bully and that his lucifer against A.J. Francis was nan first clip he felt backmost to his existent self.
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TNA Wrestling's KC Navarro successful nan ring. (TNA Wrestling)
"I'm doing great. If you were to inquire maine erstwhile I first came back, I was decidedly a small nervous, which everybody benignant of told me, hey, erstwhile you travel backmost from an ACL your first year, you're going to benignant of beryllium like, ‘ah.’ But I deliberation by nan clip I wrestled A.J. Francis successful nan thoroughfare conflict was nan first clip I really felt for illustration myself," he said. "And past erstwhile I wrestled (Mustafa) Ali for nan world title, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah. I'm decidedly back.’ So, nan assurance is back. I'm emotion great. I'm doing good.
"Shout retired to Hospital for Special Surgery complete successful New York City. They took attraction of me. They sewage maine backmost really quick. I sewage backmost successful a grounds clip of for illustration 8 months aliases so. Actually, I really sewage cleared successful seven, but I returned to TV successful eight. But I'm emotion really good. I'm emotion stronger, and I'm fresh to do immoderate astonishing things now."
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Navarro has precocious challenged for nan X Division Championship and nan International Championship and while some were successful losing efforts, his prowess successful nan ringing has pushed him guardant toward a imaginable TNA World Championship changeable against Nic Nemeth.
KC Navarro and Tommy Dreamer airs for a photograph earlier nan crippled betwixt nan St. Louis Cardinals and nan Athletics astatine Sutter Health Park successful Sacramento, Calif., connected May 13, 2026. (Don Collier/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Nemeth defeated Mike Santana for nan TNA world title astatine Slammiversary. Nemeth has seemingly ended his relationship pinch Navarro has he took his spot astatine nan apical of TNA.
A imaginable lucifer could beryllium connected nan sky erstwhile Lockdown takes spot connected Aug. 23 astatine nan Credit Union Arena successful Chicago. It will beryllium nan first Lockdown successful much than 10 years.
"A batch of cage matches," he told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked what fans tin expect from Lockdown. "It's going to beryllium nuts. I deliberation it's besides going to beryllium really cool because it was specified a historical lucifer successful TNA.
"So, for it to beryllium back, I deliberation is very typical and I deliberation it's going to beryllium a batch of people's first clip successful a cage. I cognize it's going to beryllium my first clip successful a cage. I've ne'er been successful a cage. I deliberation each nan titles are going to beryllium connected nan statement arsenic well, which is besides really, really cool. And it's successful Chicago, which is specified a phenomenal wrestling city. So, I deliberation nan spot is going to beryllium loud. It's going to beryllium jam-packed and it's going to beryllium decidedly must spot for sure."
For now, Navarro continues to look arsenic a main arena subordinate connected "Impact."
He shared his reasons for why pro wrestling fans should support tuning into nan show connected Thursday nights connected AMC.
"Well, I deliberation TNA is typical because you sewage truthful galore talents from truthful galore different generations. You sewage group that are new, group that person been connected nan rise, that are up and coming that conscionable ne'er sewage a chance," Navarro said. "People that were astatine different places that ne'er sewage a chance that yet beryllium capable to showcase who they really are.
TNA Wrestling prima KC Navarro heads to nan ring. (TNA Wrestling)
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"And past you sewage legends for illustration nan Hardys, Nic Nemth, Frankie Kazarian, guys that person done it and been to nan apical of their game. And we each get to activity together to do specified an astonishing point connected specified an astonishing platform. And I consciousness for illustration we don't really miss erstwhile it comes to shows and pay-per-views. I consciousness for illustration we get caller stories, thing really fresh, that's not seen. And that's why I really deliberation that group should proceed to tune in."
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
