Shawn Spears wants to maximize the time that he has left in the wrestling business.
Shawn Spears started wrestling in 2002. After he was with WWE for several years, he signed with AEW in 2019 and stayed there until the end of 2023. Spears returned to WWE in February 2024.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Shawn Spears discussed how much longer he intends to keep wrestling.
“A lot of the young talent were piecing things together [at the gym],” Spears said. “They were doing some workouts, stuff like that. And a lot of the young talent here are early 20s, or mid-20s max. I was just watching them all, and I just looked at Tara and I said, What’s crazy is that right now, not one of them is thinking that one day this will end. They’re all in the midst of the love and the passion and the excitement for it, which is a beautiful place to be in, and it will still be like that, even if you’re in it for a long time.
“I still have those things, but the reality of not being able to do this much longer, physically and actively in the ring has crept on me a lot more so in the last four or five years than it ever has before. So when I see young talent not even being a thing and not thinking about that, it’s just you realize almost how fast time goes and it puts it into perspective a little bit. I don’t sit there and get kind of sad about I sit there and go, let’s kind of maximize that time. I feel that way in any venture, just nothing lasts forever if you’re lucky enough to be a part of it in some sort of way.”
Shawn Spears: There’s Nothing Else I Want To Do
Spears continued by noting that he had other responsibilities, beyond what he does in the ring. He emphasized that he loved the business, and it was all he wanted to do. Spears went on to say that he wants to maximize the time that he has left in the business.
“That’s why I kind of have other responsibilities, other than just in the ring, because I’m excited about that,” Shawn Spears said. “I love this sh*t. This is all I’ve ever wanted to do since I saw the Ultimate Warrior beat Honky Tonk Man in like 10 seconds, whatever it was, faster than Punk beat me.
“But I saw that, and I watched my two uncles jump to their feet and high five each other. I was maybe six or seven, I just went I want to make people do that too. I don’t know, that’s the only memory I have. That’s the catalyst to what all this is. But there’s nothing else I want to do. There’s nothing else I hope to do. Because of all of this, I get to provide a wonderful life for my kids. So it just I’ll miss it. I know I’ll miss it, but maximize the time, enjoy the time, whatever you have left.”
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Thanks to Chris Van Vliet for sharing these quotes.
