For the last twenty years, MVP has been a fixture in the professional wrestling scene, and is continuous to go strong in AEW as a member of The Hurt Syndicate, alongside Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin. But at 52 years old and carrying a laundry list of past injuries and health issues, including Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, MVP is aware that his time within the wrestling ring is growing shorter, even when he is not able to call it quits just yet.
On a recent episode of “Marking Out,” MVP discussed his health issues and his wrestling mortality, stressing that he wasn’t retired from in-ring competition just yet, but that he has been fascinated with his end date. He proceeded to put out his ideal retirement scenario, which might see him work a program with someone in AEW, have a match that will end with him leaving his wrestling boots within the ring, after which having one final independent/international tour to wrap things up, before transitioning full-time right into a managerial role.
“I would really like to go away my boots within the ring, symbolically,” MVP said. “But then I’d wish to just do one last indie tour. Just get one last round of indie dates and do some indies within the states and Europe and other countries. And just finally be done, done. Like ‘Okay, that is it man. It’s over now. There isn’t a more MVP, the wrestler.’
“I’ll still be around as a vocal representative for The Hurt Syndicate and other talent that will need my services. But I’m able to stop falling down. The time is coming. And I’m pondering probably next yr man. Probably next yr will probably be the top of MVP within the ring as a wrestler. But so long as any individual needs me to talk up for them, they’ll get it.”
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