 Kidd came out of retirement for a Chikara event in Wolverhampton on 2 September 2017, losing to Quackenbush in a British Rules match.On 23 March 2019 Kidd came out of retirement for a one off event in Godalming Surrey for LDN Wrestling losing in both of his matches.On the 7th of December 2019, Johnny Kidd wrestled a match in Bucharest, Romania against Tom Fulton, for the co-main event of that night's end of the year event.