X-Pac Cleared Of Hepatitis C, Preparing For In-Ring Return

Speaking on his X-PAC 1,2,360 podcast, WWE Hall of Famer X-Pac (Sean Waltman) has revealed that he now no longer has Hepatitis C, and is preparing to make an in-ring return in 2021.

The former WWE star noted that he had the disease for a long time, and it means that wrestling promotions were reluctant to book him in matches as he couldn’t get cleared by certain athletic commissions:

“I had hepatitis C for a long time. I tested positive for it when I came back to TNA. After that, I couldn’t get cleared in certain states with athletic commissions, so TNA and WWE couldn’t really have me in matches. I would just do little matches, nothing serious, no blood or anything. Now I’m cured, everyone. Just this year. I hadn’t mentioned it publicly. It cost $100,000 for treatment. It’s $1,000 a pill, one pill every day. I feel great. Some people are going, ‘How come he never came back?’ That’s the reason.”

X-Pac revealed that once he gets his knee fixed (he suffered a torn ACL over ten years ago), he’ll be working on making a return to the ring:

“Now, that’s clear. I’m going to get my knee fixed, I’ve had a torn ACL since the turn of this decade, like 2008 or something. I’m going to get that fixed and sometime next year, I’ll put myself on the market, have a few more matches. Everyone thinks they have one more run left in them. Anywhere I run, it’d have to be a sprint.”

Sean Waltman noted that while he could work a full-time schedule, he’s unsure if he wants to do that. The 48-year-old said that he probably has around six good matches in him left before he retires:

“I could [do a regular schedule], I don’t know if I want to. I’ve probably got half a dozen good, hard matches in me. When I tore my ACL, I’ve had some really good matches, even with that. I just want to get it fixed, it’s not that I can’t have matches with it. If I’m going to do a last run, I want that to be [fixed].”

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Thanks to Fightful for the transcription.

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