During a recent appearance on “The Ariel Helwani Show,” Sean ‘X-Pac’ Waltman discussed his health following career injuries and the possibility of having one final match. He said,
“Pretty good, man. I mean, I’m beat up. I got, you know, torn pec, two torn biceps, like a bunch of stuff, but I feel great. I walk around like, you know … got a little bit of arthritis here and there, but I have no right to feel as good as I do Ariel, for all the, you know, damage I did to myself,” he said. “I could do it [one more match.] Let’s just put it that way. But it had to be the right, you know, something special, like some kind of a pay-per-view event or, you know, something big. But I’m fine with just showing up and do something like that [TNA appearance] every now and then. I don’t really have the itch really bad like a lot of people get.”
Waltman appeared at TNA Rebellion 2025 earlier this month.
WWE Superstars Ivar and Erik of The Viking Raiders praised fellow wrestler JD McDonagh, referring to him as a “stud” for continuing a World Tag Team Title match despite suffering serious injuries.
McDonagh had been out of action since January following a match against The Viking Raiders.
He sustained a punctured lung and broken ribs after hitting his head hard on the announcer’s desk while performing a high-flying move.
During a recent appearance on the “Gorilla Position” podcast, Ivar and Erik recalled that unfortunate injury that caused McDonagh to miss WrestleMania 41.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
Ivar: “What a stud. So I couldn’t see it when it happened, and I’m not even sure if you saw it.”
Erik: “I didn’t.”
Ivar: “Maybe heard it. I heard it. We laid out and I kind of went over to him and he wasn’t moving and I’m like, ‘Oh boy.’ I squeezed his foot, nothing. Squeezed his foot again, nothing, and I crawled over to him like, ‘Hey man, are you okay?’ And then he goes, ‘Yeah, yeah. I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine.’ So I go, alright. I guess he’s okay. But I didn’t know his ribs were hurt at all until, I don’t know, almost all the way through the match. Because I ended up, like, punched him in the stomach. That’s when he told me to be easy on his ribs. I’m like, ‘Oh, all right.’ All right I guess. But man, he muscled through it.”
Erik: “I don’t know any of us had any clue how bad he was injured and how close it came to disaster. Like, how incredibly close…”
Ivar: “None of us could see it.”
Erik: “We didn’t see it. We didn’t know…”
Ivar: “And then, to WWE’s credit, they made sure to check on him. Everyone thought it was his head. So they checked with him. They checked him for a concussion during commercial break. They made sure he was okay. He kept saying he was okay.”
Erik: “And he just said, ‘I got the wind knocked out of me,’ or, ‘I couldn’t breathe. I’m good, I’m good, I’m good…’ Like Ivar said, what a stud. He was just like, ‘Yeah, I can’t breathe’ and goes up and does a shooting star press — or moonsault.”
Ivar: “Which was supposed to be a 450, but he made the modification because his ribs were so hurt. Which I don’t know if the moonsault is gonna really… Man, what a stud. That’s all, man.”
