The Samoan Submission Machine isn’t planning on stepping away from the ring anytime soon.
Samoa Joe is undoubtedly one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the history of the sport, having had successful runs across ROH, TNA, WWE, and now AEW since his making his debut in December, 1999. The 44-year-old recently reigned as the ROH World Television Champion and now has his sights set on the AEW World Title.
In a new interview with Adrian Hernandez, Joe was asked to comment on how long he plans to continue wrestling and whether he plans to compete until his body tells him he can’t.
“I’ll probably stop well before then. I’ve been really, really fortunate. When I came off the concussion, I took two years off to really get everything back into order, and in that time too, just in the recovery process, really changed a lot around in my training and changed a lot of things around that have benefited me to a great amount health-wise. I feel good right now. As far as where the train will end, I’ll let it play out a little bit more. But I will say this, I definitely have more than a handful of good years left in me. Beyond that, I’m excited…if we are gonna out, we’re gonna go out with a bang. So it’ll be interesting to see how these next few years play out,”
-Samoa Joe
Samoa Joe is set to challenge MJF for the AEW World Championship in the main event of World’s End on December 30th, with the build towards the match focusing heavily on The Devil’s involvement.
H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
