Sean “X-Pac” Waltman returned to his X-Pac 12360 podcast after almost an entire year off, making a huge announcement.
Waltman announced on the podcast he was now cured of Hepatitis C. Waltman had taken limited bookings after revealing the news in 2010, and now he has reported he is clear of it, though it didn’t come cheap. X-Pac talked about the cost it took to get himself healthy, while revealing how much he’d like to do now that he can make a comeback.
I had Hepatitis C for a long time and that kept me — I tested positive when I came back to TNA and was doing that stuff with Kevin [Nash] and Scott [Hall] and Hogan came in with Eric [Bischoff], all that. So after that, I couldn’t get cleared in certain states with athletic commissions and so TNA and WWE couldn’t really have me in matches, so I would just do little matches like that and nothing serious, no blood or whatever but, so I’m cured everyone. Just this year, just this year I got cured. I never have [mentioned it]. I hadn’t mentioned it publicly but yeah, it costs $100,000 for the treatment, and it’s $1,000 a pill. One pill everyday.
I feel great. Nothing [as far as pain]. I didn’t even know, don’t feel anything. Some people were going, ‘How come you never came back?’ So that’s the reason but now that’s clear and so now I’m gonna get my knee fixed. I’ve had a torn ACL since before the turn of this decade. I was in Mexico, still living in Mexico. I tore my ACL. It was like 2008, something like that, and so I’m gonna get that fixed and so sometime next year, I’ll put myself on the market, have a few more matches.
People talk about, ‘Hey, you got another run left in you?’ Everyone thinks they have one more run left in them. I don’t care if a dude’s in a wheelchair, he swears to God he has another run left in him. But, any run that I would have would have to be a sprint because I just —
No [Waltman responded when asked if he could do a regular wrestling schedule]. I don’t know if I want to. I probably got half-a-dozen good, hard matches in me.
The cost of it wasn’t cheap, and it’s clear Waltman still has some things to take care of like his ACL, but it’s clear he’s got a plan and a desire to get back into the ring. We wish him the best of luck with that.
h/t to Post Wrestling for the quote
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