Ruby Soho Says She Has More Years Behind Her Than Ahead, But Will Go As Long As She Can

Ruby Soho is only 31 years old, but has been wrestling for over a decade, having got her start in 2010. 

Soho has traveled the independent scene, worked in WWE as Ruby Riott, and is now part of AEW where she’s challenged for the AEW Women’s Championship in the past. While Soho has showed little signs of slowing down, she says she has started to think about life outside of wrestling a little more. 

“These last couple years are the first years that I have, not like thought about retiring anytime soon or anything, but it’s been about 12 years that I’ve been doing this and I feel it a lot more,” she said during a Q&A session at Galaxycon. “It takes a lot more for me to recover from matches than it used to. After each one, I’m hurting a little bit more. It’s just gotten me to start thinking about life after wrestling, which before, I had blinders on, ‘this is what I’m doing.’ I’m not necessarily preparing for it, but I also want to know my interests outside of this. This will still always be the driving force behind everything that I’m doing right now and I love it more than anything and I’m going to keep doing it as long as my body will allow me, but I’m held together with tooth picks and bubble gum at this point [laughs]. I think I have more years behind me than ahead of me, but I’m going to do this for as long as I can.”

Soho last wrestled during the August 17 AEW Dark: Elevation tapings. 

On Friday’s AEW Rampage, she & Ortiz challenged Sammy Guevara & Tay Melo to a mixed tag team bout. If you missed anything from AEW Rampage, check out Fightful’s full report on the show by clicking here. 

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