AJ Styles: I’m Getting Close To The End, I’m Getting To The Point Where I’m Worried About Embarrassing Myself

AJ Styles admits he’s getting close to the end. 

AJ Styles has been wrestling for over 25 years and at the age of 46, is closer to the end of his career than the beginning. 

Styles admitted as much while speaking on The Ringer Wrestling Show. 

“I’m anxious to see what story comes next. I’m getting close. I’m getting close to the end. I want to have that story and match to go with it before I leave the WWE. That’s what I’m looking forward to the most,” he said. 

Asked to clarify if his time with WWE was coming up or his time in the ring was coming up, Styles said, “I’m done. I’m going to retire. I’m getting to that point where I am worried about embarrassing myself. My brain says, ‘We can do this.’ My body is like, ‘You’re stupid. We cannot do this. We’re hurting every day when we roll out of bed. At some point, this has to come to an end.’ I’ve realized, like so many others that come before me, the greats, they get out of it when we think there is still time for them. It’s because we don’t want to embarrass ourselves. We’re just trying to get out while we still can where we can still get around and just have fun away from wrestling. I love it, this is what I do and what I know. I’ve spent more than half my life doing this, but at some point, you have to let go because it’s fun, but I don’t want to disappoint you. When you see AJ Styles, I want you to go, ‘That’s my guy, that’s the guy I know,’ rather than go, ‘He just isn’t the same guy and can’t do what he used to.’ I don’t want to be that guy. I don’t want to let you down. My time is coming. It’s getting short. I am going to enjoy it, I promise you that.”

Styles is set to face LA Knight at WrestleMania 40.

Styles previously said they would like to be a talent scout for WWE once his in-ring career is over. 

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