AEW Star Full-Time In-Ring Retirement Plans Revealed

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A recent AEW signing and former WWE star has revealed their plans for what they want to accomplish before retiring as a full-timer.

Tommaso Ciampa recently made his AEW debut, having parted ways with WWE following his contract expiring.

Having revealed that part of his decision was because AEW was ‘what I want to be part of‘, Ciampa has now opened up about his future and what he still wants to accomplish.

During a recent interview with VICE, which notes that the AEW star may no longer be a full-time wrestler within ten years, Ciampa revealed his ‘list’ of potential opponents, stating:

“I think one of the big things now settling into AEW, and it was one of the big things coming into it in general, is I started to develop the ‘list’.

“When I started, I was 20 plus deep, and I was still on people that I have never even wrestled in a singles match, which blew my mind.

“Some of them are people you definitely would think I have: Swerve (Strickland), Ricochet, Claudio (Castagnoli), Roddy. We’ve all crossed paths but never actually worked singles together. One of the goals for me is to check off the checklist.

“I’ve had this, not by choice of course, but this bad track record of not being able to check off those lists. For instance, when I was in Ring of Honor, Seth Rollins went through there, Generico went through there, Claudio, (Chris) Hero, Davey Richards. All these different people that during my time in ROH I never even crossed paths.

“Then I went to WWE. Randy Orton, AJ (Styles), we never did anything on television together, Seth again.

“There are so many there that I was like, ‘Oh, I never got to do stuff with them.’ So when I started to put the list together in AEW, I was like, ‘Okay, I got to check this list off. This can’t just be a list that sits there (and) I’m here for five, ten years (wondering) what could have been.’”

Ciampa’s first AEW match saw him defeat Mark Briscoe for the TNT Championship on the January 31 episode of Collision.

With only one successful title defense, Ciampa would lose the championship to Kyle Fletcher on the February 11 episode of Dynamite.

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