During a recent appearance on the “Marking Out” podcast, MVP expressed his desire to embark on a retirement tour, noting that he has about one or two years remaining in his wrestling career.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his retirement tour hopes: “At this stage of the game for me, like, I don’t have to do it. I just still enjoy doing it. When I get to the point that I can’t do it effectively or if I’m taking baseball slide bumps, then it’s time to go. I plan on ending this run here pretty soon anyway. I want to have my last match. I want to have the retirement tour, let me go around, ‘Hey, this is the last time MVP will be wrestling in your city.’”
On his in-ring career: “I’d like to think I got maybe another 10 as a manager, maybe 15 depending on my age and health. As far as in the ring, I got like maybe a year or two left max, man.”
During a recent edition of his “The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy” podcast, Matt Hardy discussed the storyline involving Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada, The Don Callis Family, and more topics.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada and Okada siding with Don Callis: “I mean, I think it’s important. I think it adds a lot of context to how paramount this match is. I think it helps sells the match. These guys are two legendary performers who really kind of made their names off one another in the series of matches they’ve had, which was so huge back when they first happened.
“I liked the fact that there was the bludgeoning of Kenny Omega. He was bleeding. He did in it a real shi*ty way, he was tied to a stretcher and he elbows him. He’s outside, he elbows him. They get good heat on him. He’s bleeding real bad. It looked very violent. So so I dug that, and I like the fact that they’re trying to really make a clearcut heel in Okada. They’re trying to put sympathy on Kenny Omega and I think that’s important for their match coming up, even though both people are still just going to cheer for him and go nuts because that is the AEW audience, many, many ways. But I thought it was all done really well. I thought it’s been good, and it makes me look forward to the match. I’m excited. I’m excited for that match. That’d be a match I’d be interested in seeing.”
On if he’s watched their series of matches: “I want to say I saw the first match. I remember there was so much buzz about it, and I think I saw it uploaded somewhere on social media when it first came out.”
On criticism of Kazuchika Okada’s AEW run: “I also feel like, because AEW is kind of like ‘Go out there and get yours and do whatever during the match. Like, let every match steal the show, whatever.’ I feel like sometimes Okada probably — if he was put in a position on one show where it’s like, ‘Specifically, we want this match to steal the show.’ And they gave him that time, and then everybody else kind of was told to dial it down a notch or whatever. I feel like that might make him stand out more.
“But I think it’s going to be harder for him in AEW, because they really don’t dial anyone down everybody. Everybody’s going full bore all the time, and that’s why I think things don’t stand out as much as they should… Also at AEW, I mean Will Ospreay is allowed to go out and do his stick every week, you know? And he’s just a generational athlete. He can do everything. So it’s like, when he’s doing so much and he’s upping the bar — upping the ante — so much, it makes it harder for those more simple things to establish as much and get as big of a reaction.”
