WWE Name Was In Talks Over New Contract Prior To Career-Ending Injury

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A WWE name has revealed that he was in talks with the company over signing a new five-year contract prior to suffering a career-ending injury.

2025 marks 10 years since TJ Wilson (Tyson Kidd) suffered a serious spinal cord injury during a match with Samoa Joe on June 1, 2015 – an injury that forced him to retire from in-ring competition.

After undergoing surgery Wilson would eventually transition into a role as a backstage producer, a role he holds in WWE to this day.

Speaking on Developmentally Speaking, Wilson recalled the career-ending injury, revealing the plans he had for the remainder of his wrestling career, which included signing a new five-year contract with the company.

Wilson recalled:

“I love wrestling. It’s given me everything. Everything I got, wrestling. I had no clue what I was going to do. That first night when I got hurt, I’m not even in a hospital room. I’m in the basement of this hospital. It’s cold, freezing cold. I had no service, like one bar in and out. I’m sitting there with this neck brace on, with no real answers.

“The surgeon comes on the morning to kind of give me the news. But I’m very in tune with my body, and in the moment, I knew my neck was broken. I knew I was never wrestling again. I knew that in that moment. In that moment, I did not know what was next. I had no clue. I didn’t know anything. I just knew that this dream that I’d seen through, this version of it, was over.

“I didn’t know what was next. Prior to that, I did think I had a long-term plan. I remember they were talking to me about signing a new deal. In my mind, I was going to sign. This is just in my mind. In my mind, I was going to sign a five-year deal that would take me til I was 40.

“At 40, I will have been wrestling at that point for 25 years. I’m 40, everything seemed like a nice, perfect round number, and then I kind of wanted to get out. That was my mind. I’m sure when I got there, that wouldn’t have happened. Especially when you start adding AJ Styles and those types of guys to the roster.

“If I had been afforded the opportunity to stay as a talent, I promise I wouldn’t have left. But in my mind at this time, 40 was going to be perfect, and then I would start a wrestling school in Tampa.”

Wilson recently revealed that he held conversations with TNA Wrestling star Chris Bey after he suffered a serious neck injury during a taping in October 2024 – click here for full details.

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