On the age of 48, John Cena competed in the ultimate match of his in-ring profession, abandoning his signature wrestling sneakers and armbands. In 2026, AJ Styles will follow suit on the age of 49, abandoning a series of memories in TNA, ROH, NJPW, and WWE. While appearing on the “Saturday Night’s Foremost Event Recap,” Ron “R-Truth” Killings suggested that his own retirement is not too far off either.
“I’m on deck,” Truth said. “I told [CM] Punk all of us on deck. I told all of them that. I at all times prefer to say I steal this from The Rock. I let pain and my body be my guide so far as like when it is time for me to go. Straight away, I still feel good. I have not been injured lots because I do things that I learned from Booker T years ago. Psychology, I need to have longevity within the business. I need to do things that I do know I can do, I can get away with. But at the identical time, it’s entertaining, it’s spectacular, it’s fancy and the group likes it. So now whenever you get into the various elements of it, you bought younger talent coming in, which is presupposed to occur. The whole lot evolves and it goes around.”
Based on Truth, his current contract with WWE, which he signed in June, may very well be the last of his skilled wrestling profession. Excluding a temporary period during which WWE let his contract expire in early June, Truth has remained under the WWE banner since 2008. Before that, Truth performed as K-Kwik in WWE from 1999 until 2001.
“All of us need to have that point. All of us need to get off the ride sooner or later,” Truth added.
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