WATCH: 43 Year Old Former WWE Star Returns To The Ring After Three And A Half Year Absence

He’s back in. There are all kinds of wrestlers in the world and several of them do not wrestle for the biggest promotions. At the same time, several of them have wrestled there before and it can still mean a lot to fans to see some of those wrestlers elsewhere. That was the case this weekend, as a former WWE star returned to the ring for the first time in a long while.

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On Friday, Chris Hero, 43 years old, defeated Timothy Thatcher in his first match in three and a half years. The match was promoted by West Coast Pro Wrestling at their Whiplash event in San Francisco, California. Following the match, Hero teased retiring from the ring before saying that he was kidding and setting up a tag team match for the promotion’s next event on December 3.

This was good. Check out the full show (Hero’s entrance begins at about 3:33:15) plus his time in WWE:

Opinion: It’s nice to see someone like Hero getting back in the ring and still looking completely decent (at worst) in the ring. Hero is someone who has been around forever and has wrestled all over the world. It would be nice to see him getting one more run in a bigger promotion but if he is happy getting to do something like this, there is absolutely nothing wrong with sticking around on the west coast.