AEW star and pro wrestling legend MVP discussed various topics, including the duration of his current AEW contract, on an episode of his Marking Out Podcast with Dwayne Swayze.
MVP said, “MVP is my job. It’s not my existence. So, I don’t have a problem walking away from MVP, because I’ll always be MVP. I’ll always be that MVP. ‘Oh man, I watched you when I was a kid.’ ‘Hey, thanks, man.’ But I don’t need that validation. The money? Yeah, of course. But even then, at 52, I’m not making the same money that I was when I was 35. I’m still making a lot of money. But now, I have a different role now, and I’m very comfortable with the role… currently, my contract takes me through 57, and I could be a manager, a mouthpiece, consultant, contributor in other ways for a long time, and I probably wouldn’t mind doing that.”
On his final match getting closer:
“Let’s be real, I’m 52, and I don’t wanna sprint back-and-forth across the ring and I don’t wanna get powerbombed and chokeslammed at this stage. I don’t wanna do that, and I don’t take bookings for matches anymore. I’m not officially retired, but that’s coming. I’m thinking probably next year… I will have my final match. I’m pretty confident that my final match is coming soon. But even then, on these last few shows or whatever that I have, taking an independent booking, people ain’t looking for MVP to go out there and put on a 20-minute, five-star Meltzer match. They wanna see MVP come out, do some swag, do the Ballin’ elbow. They wanna see the hits.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
