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AJ Styles has stated numerous times that he plans to retire in 2026, and one WWE Hall of Famer agrees that itâ€s time The Phenomenal One calls it a career.

On the latest episode of The Hall of Fame Podcast, NXT commentator Booker T spoke about the upcoming retirement of AJ Styles in 2026, stating he believes itâ€s time for the former WWE Champion to wrap it up and call it a career.

“Okay, you know what? Itâ€s time to wrap it up. It is. Itâ€s time,†Booker T said. “For me, I said 40 was going to be my number. And just like AJ, I probably got to 40 and said, ‘Man, Iâ€m still better than all these suckersâ€â€¦ and I pushed it for five more years. For him to have lasted this long, props. Itâ€s time to wrap it up, man, and live on the fruits of the labor. Seriously, he doesnâ€t have to do anything ever again.

Despite his impending retirement, Booker T believes Styles will remain in the wrestling industry because he has a great mind and a lot to offer to the business.

One thing about AJ Styles, too, heâ€s one of those carpenters that weâ€re going to need in this business for many, many years. So when he retires, heâ€s still going to have a job doing something in this business, I would imagine, just because heâ€s one of those great minds that this business definitely can utilize.†[H/T: WrestlingNews.co]

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What do you make of Booker Tâ€s overall comments? Do you think itâ€s time for AJ Styles to retire from wrestling? Let us know your overall thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.

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John Cena’s retirement match caused major plans to be changed by a WWE Hall of Famer.

Last year, John Cena confirmed that 2025 will mark the final year he will compete in WWE as a superstar before officially retiring in December. Throughout his Farewell Tour, he faced the likes of AJ Styles, CM Punk, Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, and more. After Crown Jewel last weekend, he only has four appearances left before his retirement match.

Last month, WWE confirmed that John Cena’s last match will occur on December 13, at Saturday Night’s Main Event at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Although a final match for The Cenation Leader has already been announced, his final opponent has yet to be revealed.

Throughout his Farewell Tour, John Cena paid tribute to his former rivals by doing their finishers during his matches. Now, it’s one of his former rivals’ turns to honor the 17-time World Champion before he officially hangs up the boots.

Booker T Moves Wrestling Event For John Cena’s WWE Retirement Match

On X (Twitter), Booker T, WWE Hall of Famer and owner of the Reality of Wrestling promotion, announced that he will move the company’s Subzero event to December 20 so that fans can properly support John Cena’s retirement match. The two-time Hall of Famer added that he wanted the wrestling world to come together to watch and honor The Cenation Leader as he wrestles for the final time.

In honor of @JohnCenaâ€s final match taking place December 13th on Saturday Nightâ€s Main Event, we at @TheOfficialROW have made the decision to move our annual winter event, #SubZero, to December 20th. Some moments in this business are bigger than any one show — and this is one of them. We want the entire wrestling world to come together to watch, reflect, and honor the greatest of all time as he takes his final bow. #ThankYouJohn“

In honor of @JohnCenaâ€s final match taking place December 13th on Saturday Nightâ€s Main Event, we at @TheOfficialROW have made the decision to move our annual winter event, #SubZero, to December 20th.

Some moments in this business are bigger than any one show — and this is one… pic.twitter.com/clY9afQm8p

— Booker T. Huffman (@BookerT5x) October 15, 2025

John Cena and Booker T shared the ring several times since 2004, mainly feuding for the United States title. At that year’s No Mercy event, the former defeated the latter in a Best of Five Series match to become the new US Champion.

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Oct. 12, 2025 1:30 pm EST

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In the ring, D-Von Dudley utilizes moves such as the Saving Grace, a rope hung neckbreaker, and a 3D as his finishers. Meanwhile, former AEW World Champion Chris Jericho is best known for the Judas Effect, Walls of Jericho, and Codebreaker. In a recent video for his YouTube channel, D-Von detailed his experience taking Jericho’s Codebreaker during their previous stints in WWE.

According to D-Von, this move has delivered results on both ends of the pain spectrum. “I got to say, this particular move, the Codebreaker, can be a little on the scary side,” he said. “Some might beg to differ with me. ‘What’s so scary about it, D-Von? Hell, you’re watching him.’ Yes, I agree, you’re watching him, but think about it. Your face is coming down into his knees. If he goes a little bit before me or if I go a little early, possibly my face could be rearranged in a sense. But at the same token, it could be one of the most easiest ones that you could take.

“It’s also the way that the person who’s taking it, the way he reacts to it, how he sells it. It’s the ones that you think aren’t going to hurt you bad, those are the ones that get you because you’re not putting any effort into protecting yourself really.”Â

Jericho and D-Von have shared the ring on over three-dozen occasions, one of which saw Jericho and Chris Benoit successfully defend the WWE World Tag Team Championships in a four-way TLC match in May 2001. Jericho and D-Von last crossed paths in a 16-man elimination tag match on “WWE Raw” in 2016. Like Rey Mysterio, D-Von considers Jericho to be a true professional in the ring, especially when it comes to protecting their opponents.Â

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In assessing Jade Cargill’s recent performance and injury in a triple threat main event on “WWE SmackDown,” WWE Hall of Famer Booker T recently asserted that she needed to better protect herself. He also stated that Cargill is still “fresh off” her run in All Elite Wrestling, where likely she wasn’t given a chance to learn about professional wrestling in depth. A report from Fightful Select later indicated that talents within WWE, AEW, and TNA were “baffled” by the latter remark –something Booker himself has since addressed on the “The Hall of Fame” podcast.

“I want to know who those baffled WWE, TNA and AEW wrestlers are,” Booker said. “I’m willing to talk and challenge and debate with any of those guys. I don’t look at myself above or below any of the guys that’s in the business today, guys in the past or future, none of that. I’m serious. I feel like we’re all on the same level. My thing is I respect the young guys. Say, for instance, a company like AEW, and I don’t see anybody over there that’s working in the main event, that’s been in the business two years or three years. The Young Bucks, those guys got time in. The Kenny Omegas, Edge, Christian, most of the guys over there on that roster got years of experience in this business. So when someone questions me, I’m going to look for your credentials first and foremost.

“I understand when someone who comments who’s never been in the business and they can look at two years in the business and think that’s a really, really long time. But one of my peers that’s been in the business, I think they know what two years is.”Â

In September 2023, Cargill left AEW after a 500-plus day reign as TBS Champion and making her professional wrestling debut in the company 2.5 years earlier. Later in the same month, WWE confirmed that Cargill had inked a deal with it, leading to her WWE in-ring debut at the 2024 Royal Rumble.

Booker Says He Knew ‘Very Little’ In First Two Years Of His Own Career

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Two years out from signing with WWE, Cargill is now a two-time WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion and a top star on the “WWE SmackDown” brand. She’s also competed in two WrestleManias, earning wins in both appearances. Still, in the grand scheme of things, Booker believes Cargill remains a work in progress.

Based on his prior in-ring experiences, Booker argues that two years is not a long time in the wrestling industry, hence his previous remark about Cargill still being “fresh” out of AEW. “I know at two years in the business what I knew, which was very, very little,” he said

Early in his career, Booker recalled wrestling in-ring veteran Dusty Wolfe, who had several years of television experience under his belt. Though Wolfe had actually rarely emerged victorious in his own matches on television, Booker found Wolfe’s insight valuable, so much so that he personally asked Wolfe to guide him through their forthcoming bout, which Booker was slated to win.

“I learned so much in that match listening to Dusty Wolfe,” Booker said. “I appreciate Dusty Wolfe. Wherever you are out there, Dusty, I appreciate the knowledge that you gave me to actually hopefully give to some other young guy one day, which I know I did. That’s what being in the business is at that stage. If you ain’t got your ears open learning from someone like a Dusty Wolfe, you’re going to be swimming upstream. I can almost guarantee you that in Jade’s first two years, she didn’t work with anyone like Dusty Wolfe.”

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WWE Hall of Famer Paul Heyman has issued a response to a post from former WWE talent Braun Strowman where Strowman called him “Oswald Cobblepot.”

Strowman’s post on Monday came in response to a line from a Heyman promo on Monday’s Raw where Heyman said that no one but The Vision had ever forced Roman Reigns to do a stretcher job before.

Strowman posted an image of an angle where Reigns was stretchered out at the hands of Strowman, then Strowman tipped the stretcher over:

Strowman wrote: yea ok Oswald Cobblepot!!

Oswald Cobblepot is the name of The Penguin character in Batman lore and the HBO Max show The Penguin.

Heyman responded in an Instagram story on Wednesday writing:

Dear Mr. Strowman,

Your post was brought to my attention. I have nothing negative to say about you, nor to you sir.

In fact, I am actually relieved and indeed celebratory to learn you’re still alive, something most of us didn’t realize and even fewer cared about.

With Love and Respect,

Paul Heyman

The root of the social media beef between Heyman and Strowman may stem from the post-WrestleMania 41 edition of The Pat McAfee Show on ESPN where Heyman relayed a story that Strowman had approached him crying because he was not part of the WrestleMania card, with Heyman saying that he told Strowman “that he sucks” and that’s why he was left off the show.

“Literally Braun Strowman goes up to crying that heâ€s not on WrestleMania and I tell him straight to his face, heâ€s not on WrestleMania because he sucks, did he get mad at me? Nope heâ€s rolling with the punches.â€

— Paul Heyman pic.twitter.com/1h3P3XeQDy

— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) April 21, 2025

Strowman’s WWE contract expired this past July as the company elected not to renew his deal, ending his second tenure with the company.

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Kurt Angle wrestled plenty of WWE Hall of Famers throughout his legendary career, but there is one name he wishes he could have shared the ring with.

WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle recently spoke with Sports Illustrated. While discussing his admiration for Bret Hart, Angle makes it clear heâ€s the one man he wishes he couldâ€ve competed against, believing the two of them would have had a 5-star classic.

“Bret Hart, I would have loved to wrestle Bret,†Kurt Angle said. “I talk about technical matches; he had some of the best, and heâ€s my kind of style. Thatâ€s my kind of guy that I like to work with. I think Bret and I would have had a five-star, incredible match.†[H/T: Fightful]

Kurt Angle has high praise for Bret Hartâ€s biggest rival

In the same interview, Angle put over the art of technical wrestling but made a case for Shawn Michaels as the best overall performer in pro wrestling history.

“Oh, I love technical wrestlers,†Kurt Angle said. “Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho, the technical wrestlers. Undertaker was a great technical wrestler. Stone Cold Steve Austin. There were a lot of great ones. Now, The Rock could be technical, but he was more of an action-packed kind of guy, and I love working with him, because his pace was unbelievable, and thatâ€s what I liked was a high-paced match.

“But no, I like technical-style matches the most. I have to say my best matches were with Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero. Overall, I consider Shawn [Michaels] to be the greatest in the sport. If youâ€re talking looks, promo skills, and wrestling ability, everything wrapped into one, that guy is perhaps the best of all time.†[H/T: Fightful]

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What do you make of Kurt Angleâ€s comments? How great do you think a match between Angle and Bret Hart would have been? Let us know your thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.

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Imagine having to kiss your boss on your first day on the job. Ok, now add that you have to kiss your boss in front of their spouse. That is precisely the situation that Torrie Wilson was in during her first night in WWE, when she had to plant one on Vince McMahon in front of his wife Linda on live television.Â

The WWE Hall of Famer is no stranger to being asked about kissing McMahon on her first day. Speaking on “The Ariel Helwani Show,” Wilson talks about what it was like to film that scene with McMahon.Â

“It was obviously extremely intimidating working with Vince the first day, and kissing Vince the first day. Kissing Vince was interesting, because Linda was standing right there, kinda, helping navigate it all. So, I don’t know if that made me feel better or more weird. But, you know, I was just really happy to have a big role on TV then.”

Helwani followed up by asking if there were a lot of nerves going into that scene.Â

“One thing about the nerves is that once you kinda get going, they subside a little bit. So, the lead up is worse than the walkthrough. From there, everything seemed a little less intimidating.”

For those wondering whatever happened to Torrie Wilson, the hour-plus interview touched on many topics, including what the women’s locker room was like in the early and mid-2000s, what women didn’t like her, and whether she would fit in with today’s female roster.Â

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The Mysterio Bloodline may become a thing in the future, as it’s been reported that Aalyah, the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio is flirting with the idea of getting into the business. Of course, Mysterio’s son, Dominik has already taken the WWE by storm after turning on his father, and Rey himself is an icon of the business.Â

Mysterio gave an update on his comeback status and shared that his daughter accompanied him on his rehab trip to Orlando recently on the “Club520” podcast.Â

“I just went out to the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, I had to go back in the ring, trying to get cleared from an injury. My daughter had always had the curiosity to step in the ring. So, she goes, ‘when are you taking me, when are you taking me,’ for about a year and a half. So, I said, okay, I’m going to Orlando, let’s go. She went up with me, she jumped in the ring, she loved it, man. She was doing all the basic stuff, the beginner stuff, but yeah the ring is on another level, man, it’s great. Especially the ropes. When you hit those ropes, she was all bruised from her back and shoulders.”

Aalyah Mysterio does have a history working with WWE. She appeared as a character in the short-lived Seth Rollins-Buddy Murphy storyline, playing the role of Murphy’s on-screen romantic partner. The story was scrapped shortly thereafter, with Murphy stating that it was awkward having to kiss Aalyah due to the age difference between them.

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Considering that he got his big break in ECW, WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley has taken a lot of very painful moves throughout his career. However, there is one move that he took that legitimately made him sick. During a recent video on his YouTube channel, D-Von was ranking some of the worst moves he’s ever taken in his career, and while a number of them ranked highly, none of them left him feeling worse than when he took The Big Swing from AEW star Claudio Castagnoli, known by WWE fans as Cesaro.

“When you’re blown sky high, in other words when you’re tired and filled with exhaustion and he starts swinging you around, let’s just say I was glad I didn’t eat before the match,” D-Von said. “I got so sick, it was like being on a bad ride at Coney Island. Cesaro told me at the end he goes ‘Everybody has that feeling when they take that,’ and I was like ‘I wish you would have told me that beforehand.’ The man did it 14 times swinging me, and I remember the first four and I went ‘Oh my god we’ve got more to go.’ By the time we got to ten I was like ‘He’s really going to go to 14,’ and he did. He swung me around 14 times. Cesaro was a freak of nature.”

D-Von admitted that he downplayed the move when Castagnoli originally asked him if he would like to take it, stating that he saw it on TV and thought it didn’t look too difficult. Castagnoli had even told D-Von to try and keep his head up and breathe to prevent him from feeling nauseous, to which D-Von said that he will be fine. After taking it, D-Von confirmed that it was one of the worst moves he had ever taken, and he was glad that he hadn’t eaten before taking it.

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A WWE Hall of Famer believes that WrestleMania will be undergoing a major change sooner rather than later.

On the latest episode of Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer spoke about WrestleMania 43 going to Saudi Arabia and how this could eventually lead to multiple WrestleMania events a year.

“Itâ€s like, well, when does America get it? Like, you know, but by them saying theyâ€re going to take the WrestleMania to Saudi Arabia,†Kevin Nash said. “Itâ€s like, and I could see they just changed up the one coming up and went, Oh, by the way, weâ€re not going to Vegas.

“Weâ€re going to Saudi [Arabia]. Theyâ€re giving you two f*cking WrestleManias to prepare for them to go to Saudi… even if thereâ€s 100,000 people that go to WrestleMania and another 100,000 people go to the city… And thatâ€s taken away from the States. Itâ€s still the people that are watching it worldwide, you know. And youâ€ve got it.

“Youâ€ve always—itâ€s a World Wrestling Entertainment for the first f*cking W is world. Itâ€s not US, WWE. And I just look at it, and I say, going to Saudi Arabia, to me, is huge. Because I guarantee you by the time you get to that Wrestlemania, WrestleMania will be twice a year, right? Come on. Theyâ€ve already expanded it to get to two days.†[H/T: WrestlingNews.co]

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What do you make of Kevin Nashâ€s comments? Do you believe WrestleMania will turn into two events a year in the future? Let us know your overall thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.

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