Chris Sabin is currently pulling double duty at IMPACT Wrestling both in and out of the ring.
IMPACT X-Division Champion Chris Sabin was a recent guest on Sunday Night’s Main Event. When asked about returning to IMPACT Wrestling in 2020 if he knew he’d still be there three years later, Sabin revealed he returned in 2019 to be a backstage agent for the company after his third ACL tear, and he wasn’t sure what his in-ring future was at the time.
“I’m not sure if I had any real expectations as far as that goes. I started just as an agent,” Chris Sabin said. “I tore my ACL in 2019. So later that year, while I was recovering from surgery, I was just working backstage as an agent for IMPACT. I wasn’t even sure what the future held for, like my in-ring career. I knew I wanted to wrestle. But this was also my third ACL tear, so I wasn’t sure exactly how my body would react if I’d be able to be healthy enough to continue my in-ring career and stuff, but it worked out that way.”
Sabin was asked if he has plans in the wrestling industry after he decides to retire. Sabin said his options were open as he hopes to continue working in the industry after his in-ring career ends.
“Yeah, all of the above is an option,” Chris Sabin said. “I would be interested in anything like that, very possibly starting a school and training people. Actually right now I still agent and wrestle at the same time, so I’m still gaining experience as a backstage agent. I started doing that in 2019.
“It’s been almost four years of experience that I really like having that in my back pocket because that’s a job position in every major wrestling company in the US; they have backstage agents. So just being able — if my in-ring career ended, and I would still be able to agent, I would be happy with that as well. So as long as I can work somewhere, have some sort of job-related or within the wrestling business, I would be happy.”
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