2-Time WWE Champion Reveals Retirement Plans
A two-time champion in WWE has revealed when they’re planning on hanging up their boots and retiring from the ring.
Retirement has been at the forefront of the wrestling industry in 2025, with John Cena going on a year-long final run in WWE. Cena will compete in his final match at Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13th, but it still remains to be seen who he’ll face in that match.
In Japan, NJPW’s Ace, Hiroshi Tanahashi, is also about to call it a day. Tanahashi will face Kazuchika Okada in his final match at Wrestle Kingdom on January 4th 2026. The match has helped make this Wrestle Kingdom the first to sell out the Tokyo Dome in several years.
But retirement isn’t imminent for a former two-time WWE Tag Team Champion.
Ex-WWE Star Talks Retirement
Speaking to WhatCulture, current TNA star Brian Myers – known to WWE fans as Curt Hawkins – explained when he thinks he’ll call time on his in-ring career:
At the end of the day, Father Time’s undefeated. It all depends on how your body holds up, how your brain holds up these days. Everything we know about CTE and brain health, that’s definitely a big factor I think that plays into our generation that I don’t think the older guys were really too concerned about, unfortunately, because they just didn’t have the education.
But yeah, I have every intention of wrestling until my body tells me no more. Right now, I have my eyes set on 50 and I think maybe we’ll assess that, and I’m nowhere near that. Unfortunately, fortunately I should say, but we’ll take it from there.
I think every match and the physicality that you have in wrestling is a privilege, right? Cause it’s, it’s a privilege to be part of pro wrestling and it’s a privilege to be healthy. You’d be out there and doing the dangerous things we do for the sake of entertainment. So I’m just gonna, live in that and embellish that as long as I can, because I love it that much.