Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Kid Kash is coming out of retirement.
It’s been eight years since the former WWE and ECW star had stepped foot into a professional wrestling ring. At the time Kash announced his retirement, he felt burnt out from the business and the accumulation of injuries didn’t help either.
“I just feel it’s that time. Wrestling has changed way too much for my personal interests over the last 5 or 6 years.” Kash said in an exclusive interview with PWMania.com back in 2015.” With the lack of other successful companies other than WWE, indie promoters and indie wrestlers make it hard to make a living because the promoters have become too cheap and the younger wrestlers work for way too cheap.”
The landscape has clearly changed since 2015. With the rise of AEW, and wrestlers not needing to rely on WWE to make a decent income, the 55-year-old has decided to lace up his boots again. The wrestling veteran did make a brief return in 2018 - 2020, but it didn’t last long because his body wasn’t in good shape. But the former WWE star stated in his post that rehabbing his body is something he desperately needed and is now accepting bookings again.
Before his retirement, the former WWE star had been wrestling for over 20 years. Kash first became known for his time in ECW where he won the ECW World Television Championship. He stayed in ECW until it went out of business.
His next notable stint was WWE where he lasted a over a year. However, Kash did win the Cruiserweight Championship during that time. What ultimately killed his WWE career was that he was caught with weed in Canada backstage.
Kid Kash would bounce around to various promotions and one of them was TNA Wrestling. During his second stint (as he wrestled and even won the NWA World Tag Team titles during the NWA/TNA days in the early 2000’s), Kash won the X-Division title and carried it for 77 days.
He stayed in TNA for about four years and mainly fought on the indie scene until his first retirement in 2015. As previously mentioned, he briefly made a comeback in 2017 as a part time performer, but hung up the boots again following the COVID lock down.