MVP on His Current AEW Contract & Future Of His In-Ring Wrestling Career

A recent episode of the Marking Out with MVP & Dwayne Swayze podcast featured MVP as the guest. One of the topics discussed included MVP’s thoughts about his current contract with AEW, which he signed an extension in 2025.

“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.”

MVP also gave his thoughts about the future of his in-ring wrestling career and his current retirement plans.

“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.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com