TJ Wilson (Tyson Kidd) retired from in-ring competition due to his career-ending neck injury in 2015.
Wilson has since been working as a producer for WWE and has bonded with other wrestlers with similar injuries.
In a recent appearance on the “McGuire On Wrestling” podcast, Wilson discussed how he has become close friends with Edge and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin over the years, both of whom also suffered serious neck injuries that forced them to hang up their boots. Wilson said,
“When you enter that very exclusive club we kind of all come together. When I got hurt one of the first people to reach out was Edge and we had a great talk and another guy and he’s become, I would consider him a friend, is Steve Austin. These are people that reached out when I hurt my neck.”
Wilson further added that he will reach out to Braun Strowman next, who recently underwent a level one fusion on his C4 and C5 vertebrae. He said,
“I am actually going to text Braun and just see how he’s doing.”
