What's up, everybody?

You're listening to Busted Open After Dark.

It's your girl, Denise Salsato, and today we are going to be chatting with TNA

wrestling's very own, Casey Navarro.

This is the Busted Open podcast.

TNA wrestling's very own, Casey Navarro. Casey, what up? How are you? Pardon me. I'm feeling all right. It's cool to be on here. I've never been on the after dog show. So this is cool. Here we go. This is where the things go down. So the first thing I got to say, Casey. I got something to say to you. Sure. Can you fight? Yeah. Yeah, I know. But it's a quote because I was

going to say, Elena Black, excuse me, you know how people say like, oh, and you're like dating

someone super hot. You're like, can they fight? Can they fight? I got to take them out. Absolutely.

I got to protect my girl, man. That's not clean. I got to protect them. Oh, I love Elena. She's absolutely fantastic. And now you are in the same place as her once again. You and Elena now together back in, well, in TNA. What was it like you? Major Return at Rebellion. How did you feel returning? Man, it was a lot. You know, I think speaking of

Elena, if I didn't have Elena by my side, I don't know if I would have got through that return. Okay. You know, it was a long road, you know, eight months. I was supposed to be out for a year. I got cleared about three to four months early. I'm very blessed for that. It was a lot of hard work. It probably wasn't until like the three month mark where it was like really, really hard because that's when I started walking again. And like you start to feel normal, but you also have to remember I'm still very far away from naturally coming back. Around that time is kind of where I met Elena. And she had a similar injury back when she was in NXT. So to have somebody like that, have my back and to be able to like kind of counsel me through all this and have my back and just be there for me every step of the way, it's been a blessing, man, and I'm so grateful for her and I'm so grateful to be back. You know, the crowd was there for me. Everybody was happy. I was back. I beat AJ Francis that Thursday. Hey, I'm right now. I'm on a high. I'm doing all right.

You finally got your revenge on A.J. Francis.

And he had it coming, man.

He had it coming.

He did.

Absolutely.

You know, you mentioned, you know, having to go through an injury like that and making

your way back and being gone for that long.

One of the things that always sucks whenever anybody's out due to an injury is the mental

toll of being away from pro wrestling.

And this is how you make your money.

So, you know, during that time away, to walk us through what the rehab was like, what your

psyche was like in terms of making sure that you are in the right place of mind and basically not letting it bring you down to a point where it, like to a point where it doesn't have to bring you down to a certain level.

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