Former WWE Star Explains Why He Made His Return To The Ring

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Former WWE star Chris Hero has explained why he made his return to the ring against Timothy Thatcher at West Coast Pro.

Chris Hero recently made his return to the squared circle for the first time in over three years to face his old rival, Timothy Thatcher, at West Coast Pro’s “Whiplash” event on November 17.

The match was highly praised by many fans with Hero defeating Thatcher in the main event of the show.

In a new interview on AEW Unrestricted, Hero explained why he made his return to the ring against Timothy Thatcher. He said:

“He is just a tough, physical man. He has that catch wrestler thing about him, that Billy Robinson [style].”

“He’s so strong and physical, and his technique is exceptional. I just thought it would be a great test for me to go up against somebody that I’m familiar with, but at the same time, I know he’s not going to take it easy on me.”

“It felt like the perfect situation for me, somebody that I have history with, somebody that can get people interested in us having another match.”

Hero continued on to praise some of the other people who helped with making this match happen, saying:

“Also, the work that other people put in to promote the match. Joseph Monticello made a nice rivalry video, a video essay.”

“IQ Wrestler put together this kick ass music video just flashing through our seven matches that we had had prior.”

]”A lot of people wrote pieces, I did a bunch of interviews, and he’s somebody that I had history with and that I knew I wanted to wrestle again.”

“That show that I announced myself as matchmaker, he wrestled Speedball Mike Bailey. Those are two guys that are uniquely them.”

“What they bring to the table, if you want what they have, you can only get it from them. You can get people that have similarities, but they’re just so iconically themselves.”

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