TNA Wrestling's KC Navarro 'got back in record time' after knee injury, highlights upcoming Lockdown event

KC Navarro is among the rising talents connected the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) roster and has been successful the title speech since helium returned from a superior genu injury.

Navarro was retired for respective months recovering from a torn ACL helium suffered past year. He told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation helium was feeling bully and that his lucifer against A.J. Francis was the archetypal clip helium felt backmost to his existent self.

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TNA Wrestling's KC Navarro successful the ring. (TNA Wrestling)

"I'm doing great. If you were to inquire maine erstwhile I archetypal came back, I was decidedly a small nervous, which everybody benignant of told me, hey, erstwhile you travel backmost from an ACL your archetypal year, you're going to benignant of beryllium like, ‘ah.’ But I deliberation by the clip I wrestled A.J. Francis successful the thoroughfare combat was the archetypal clip I truly felt similar myself," helium said. "And past erstwhile I wrestled (Mustafa) Ali for the planetary title, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah. I'm decidedly back.’ So, the assurance is back. I'm feeling great. I'm doing good.

"Shout retired to Hospital for Special Surgery implicit successful New York City. They took attraction of me. They got maine backmost truly quick. I got backmost successful a grounds clip of similar 8 months oregon so. Actually, I truly got cleared successful seven, but I returned to TV successful eight. But I'm feeling truly good. I'm feeling stronger, and I'm acceptable to bash immoderate astonishing things now."

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Navarro has precocious challenged for the X Division Championship and the International Championship and portion some were successful losing efforts, his prowess successful the ringing has pushed him guardant toward a imaginable TNA World Championship changeable against Nic Nemeth.

KC Navarro and Tommy Dreamer airs for a photograph earlier the crippled betwixt the St. Louis Cardinals and the Athletics astatine Sutter Health Park successful Sacramento, Calif., connected May 13, 2026. (Don Collier/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Nemeth defeated Mike Santana for the TNA satellite rubric astatine Slammiversary. Nemeth has seemingly ended his relationship with Navarro has helium took his spot astatine the apical of TNA.

A imaginable lucifer could beryllium connected the skyline erstwhile Lockdown takes spot connected Aug. 23 astatine the Credit Union Arena successful Chicago. It volition beryllium the archetypal Lockdown successful much than 10 years.

"A batch of cage matches," helium told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked what fans tin expect from Lockdown. "It's going to beryllium nuts. I deliberation it's besides going to beryllium truly chill due to the fact that it was specified a historical lucifer successful TNA.

"So, for it to beryllium back, I deliberation is precise peculiar and I deliberation it's going to beryllium a batch of people's archetypal clip successful a cage. I cognize it's going to beryllium my archetypal clip successful a cage. I've ne'er been successful a cage. I deliberation each the titles are going to beryllium connected the enactment arsenic well, which is besides really, truly cool. And it's successful Chicago, which is specified a phenomenal wrestling city. So, I deliberation the spot is going to beryllium loud. It's going to beryllium jam-packed and it's going to beryllium decidedly indispensable spot for sure."

For now, Navarro continues to look arsenic a main lawsuit subordinate connected "Impact."

He shared his reasons for wherefore pro wrestling fans should support tuning into the amusement connected Thursday nights connected AMC.

"Well, I deliberation TNA is peculiar due to the fact that you got truthful galore talents from truthful galore antithetic generations. You got radical that are new, radical that person been connected the rise, that are up and coming that conscionable ne'er got a chance," Navarro said. "People that were astatine different places that ne'er got a accidental that yet beryllium capable to showcase who they truly are.

TNA Wrestling prima KC Navarro heads to the ring. (TNA Wrestling)

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"And past you got legends similar the Hardys, Nic Nemth, Frankie Kazarian, guys that person done it and been to the apical of their game. And we each get to enactment unneurotic to bash specified an astonishing happening connected specified an astonishing platform. And I consciousness similar we don't truly miss erstwhile it comes to shows and pay-per-views. I consciousness similar we get caller stories, thing truly fresh, that's not seen. And that's wherefore I truly deliberation that radical should proceed to tune in."