Various: Jerry Lawler on Him Not Ruling Out Future In-Ring Return For One More Match & Reveals He Went Color Blind After Recent Stroke, Arn Anderson Says He’s “Terrified”By The Style of Modern-Day Wrestling, Indies/Misc.

Dec 24, 2025

Jerry Lawler Comments on Him Not Ruling Out Future In-Ring Return For One More Match & Reveals He Went Color Blind After Recent Stroke

Action News 5 held a recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler. One of the topics discussed included Lawler’s thoughts about the future of his in-ring wrestling career and the idea of him potentially having one more match in the future.

“I have not put it out of my mind. We have one more match in there somewhere.”

Lawler also gave his thoughts about his recovery from his most recent stroke in 2023.

“Oh gosh, I get asked that question 50 times a day. I like to say something I saw on the news recently was people say, ‘Uh, six or seven…’ I’ll get up to seven and boop, somehow, I’ll go back to six.
You can’t know when you’re gonna have ‘em, and it’s just, boom, you have it. I was in Florida by myself and woke up one morning and everything was messed up, and I had to call Lauren (McBride) to come down from Memphis and to get me from the hospital and everything down there.”

Lawler also revealed that he went color blind following his recent stroke.

“Because I’m colorblind and I can’t see the colors, and this is black and white.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2

Arn Anderson Says He’s “Terrified”
By The Style of Modern-Day Wrestling

Denise Salcedo held a recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer Arn Anderson. One of the topics discussed included Anderson’s thoughts about him being “terrified” by the style of modern-day wrestling in regards to the risks wrestlers are taking during matches.

“I’m terrified. I respect the girls and guys of today’s wrestling industry, but scared to death too, because I see things in the ring that you can’t protect yourself on. “Anything going backwards, German Suplex, you can’t protect yourself because you can’t see where you’re going. Stuff off the top, going through tables, things that are dangerous.”

Anderson also gave his thoughts about his own experience in wrestling during his days as an active in-ring wrestler.

“You look at me, I’m beat up, and I didn’t do any of that stuff, so I’m just worried that in five years we’re gonna have a casualty list, and I hate it for the young guys and girls, because they feel like they need to go to that level to get the audience’s approval.
Do you need them to do that to enjoy their matches? If they dialled it down would you not follow them? I’m not saying take everything away from them, take all the excitement away, but take some of the stuff that talent are time after time getting hurt on and just dial it down, that’s all I’m asking.”

Anderson also gave his thoughts about his belief that injuries are more frequent in current day wrestling.

“I’ll never get my wish. I don’t have any control over the business at all, other than my opinion, but I hear almost on a weekly basis who is dropping out due to injury. It was not that way when I was wrestling, and granted, we weren’t doing the stuff they are doing, and that was by design.
I’ll give an example; Ric’s daughter, Ashley Flair, Charlotte. She’s famous for dropping her opponent on the floor, going to the top rope and doing a Moonsault to the floor. If you go back and slow the tape down, there’s no way to catch somebody off top, and she’s landing on her feet. What’s the odds of her blowing her knee out or tearing her hamstring? You tell me if she doesn’t do that move, I’ll be disappointed. I don’t think so.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

TNA Wrestling recently announced that current TNA World Tag Team Champions The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) will be making an appearance in Dallas, Texas for a media tour on January 5-6, 2026.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that Mr. Thomas is the next official competitor for next year’s Battle Riot match at their Battle Riot VIII event on January 29, 2026 in Kissimmee, Florida.

Tuesday’s NOAH Thanksgiving 2025 event in Tokyo, Japan featured OZAWA making his in-ring return from injury. OZAWA competed in a Six-Man Tag Team match with fellow Team 2000X members Masa Kitamiya & Tadasuke against Kaito Kiyomiya, Tetsuya Endo, & Yoshiki Inamura, which was won by Team 2000X. This was OZAWA’s first match since this past September due to a Lisfranc ligament injury.

NJPW recently released their official list of rules for fans when it comes to them being allowed to record footage of Hiroshi Tanahashi’s upcoming retirement match against Kazuchika Okada at next month’s Wrestle Kingdom 20 event at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo.

NJPW also recently released a new video on their official YouTube channel featuring a complete look back at Hiroshi Tanhashi’s 26-year wrestling career.

This past Monday’s Wrestling Open RI: Unfinished Business event for Beyond Wrestling in Cranston, Rhode Island featured Bear Bronson defeating Marcus Mathers and Ryan Clancy in a Triple Threat match to become the new Undisputed IWTV Independent Wrestling World Champion.

As noted before, this past October’s TNA Bound For Glory 2025 event featured Team 3D’s Bully Ray & Devon, also known as the Dudley Boyz’ Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley in WWE, officially retiring from their in-ring careers following their Tables match against The Hardys for the TNA World Tag Team and WWE NXT Tag Team Championships. In a recent interview with Denise Salcedo, D-Von Dudley gave his thoughts about his retirement match and him being “shocked” that the match was even announced. Dudley stated “I gotta tell you, I was shocked when they even announced that the match was happening, and then when the boots were left, I mean, it was a lot of emotion. The 1,000th episode of TNA, I was happy, but I wasn’t happy. It didn’t really- it wasn’t a proper send-off. So when Bubba came back to me and told me about three years later, ‘I have an idea to do the Hardys and the Dudleys one last time time,’ I jumped on it.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Lex Luger recently has been able to walk without the assistance of others after he had been wheelchair bound since 2007 due to a spinal stroke. Luger and WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page have been working on a new documentary based on Luger’s health struggles and recovery from a spinal stroke. In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, DDP provided an update on the progress of his new documentary project and stated that it will only be finished when Luger reaches the right point in his recovery. DDP stated “That’s the goal. And it’s got to be when he’s hit that spot where he feels really comfortable. His physical and mental action will tell us when that is. And we’re not there yet.” DDP also gave his thoughts about Luger’s original plans for his WWE Hall of Fame induction was for him to walk up to the stage but those plans got shelved following him suffering a fall incident at an airport. DDP stated “He hit that concrete — and he felt so bad. He’s like, ‘D, I feel so bad. I can’t walk and I want to do this for you.’ I’m like, ‘F*ck me, this is about you. And we’re doing a documentary.’ So another, ‘Oh, almost,’ you know?” (Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Do Or Die 2026 event on December 31st in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey: