Chavo Guerrero is coming back to TNA Wrestling.
The multi-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion has been out of the spotlight for a bit. Though Chavo’s name doesn’t particularly come up in the mainstream, the 54-year-old is still active on the indie scene. But Chavo is returning to a place he’s pretty familiar with - TNA.
Chavo Guerrero first joined TNA Wrestling in 2012. He had a tag team with Hernandez and the two had a brief run with the TNA World Tag Team titles. They first won the belts at Bound For Glory 2012 in a Triple Threat match that had AJ Styles & Kurt Angle and Christopher Daniels & Kazarian. They only held the belts for 103 days. Chavo and Hernandez would regain those titles in a Best Two Out of Three Falls match against Austin Aries & Bobby Roode. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t keep those belts for long as they lost them again at Slammiversary XI. Chavo’s first stint ended when he grabbed a briefcase in the infamous Feast or Fired match and he received the pink slip.
Chavo came back in 2018/2019, but he only had cross promotional matches and nothing more. Since his odd and extremely short stint in All Elite Wrestling, Chavo has mostly been taking it easy on the wrestling side of things. Though he's an active performer, he has a few matches here and there throughout the years. He’s worked for Game Changer Wrestling and AAA Lucha Libre. The former WWE star said it himself on Wrestling Perspective Podcast that doesn’t plan on ever retiring.
“You don’t ever retire. I mean a Guerrero’s never retired. It’s the truth, you really really don’t. So when I see like Ric Flair’s retirement match, I’m kinda like, which one is this? You know, come on. You just really don’t ever retire. You’re always involved with wrestling. So everything I’m doing is still wrestling it’s just a different avenue, with my movie-making career, TV-making career, my beer, I have a beer out that’s kind of an offshoot of wrestling. I got cigars coming out.
I got a whole thing, it all kind of stems off my old wrestling career, whether I’m doing a ComicCon signing or I’m doing a cameo, it all really stems off of that still. But I’m not getting punched in the face anymore."
Though he explains why he’s not planning to hang up the boots, Chavo does state that he’ll likely wrestle three/four matches a year.
“So to your question, I don’t think I’ll ever really retire, but I wrestle maybe three, four times a year now. There’s not really big huge WrestleMania matches because I know where I need to be at, but I keep in shape, ready to go at all times. So any match that I have, the guys are always like, ‘What the hell, dude? You’re still outperforming all of us.’ I’m like I just don’t do it 300 days a year anymore, so I can do that"
At this time, no matches have been confirmed for Chavo Guerrero. In fact, there’s no telling if he’ll wrestle at all. For now, TNA has simply confirmed his appearances at the upcoming tapings in El Paso.