Xavier Woods Reveals When He Plans To Retire

Xavier Woods is just 34 years old, and while he has no immediate thoughts of retirement, he has explained when he’ll know it’s time to hang up his boots.

Woods spoke to Luke Norris of Sportscasting about eventually winding down his career, and for how much longer he wants to wrestle.

“Until I feel like I can no longer perform at a level that’s acceptable to the fans. So once that happens, then I’m done. So I’ll probably jump out right before that happens so I don’t have to accidentally find it. But at this point in my career, I’m so focused on making sure that other people are taken care of and that other people are getting the chance to shine, whether that’s in the ring or outside of it,” he said. “For me, I want to make sure that I’ve done everything in my power to get a couple of pages of the next chapter written before I get there because I don’t want to have to pick up the pen and scramble to write. I want to make sure that I’ve got everything I can to make sure that my transition into post-wrestling life as smooth as possible and that the transition into wrestling life for everybody in wrestling right now is as smooth as possible. So that’s really the focus I have right now. So when we talk about my career, when I’m done wrestling, it’s kind of just like when the work is done, you know, it’s never really done. So I guess when I’m comfortable enough passing the work on to someone else. I’ll step away then.”

Xavier Woods is best known in WWE for his numerous tag title wins as part of the New Day, but he is one of the few WWE stars who has been able to make a name for himself outside of the ring too, with a successful YouTube channel, and various other hosting roles on his CV.

He and tag partner Kofi Kingston lost their Raw tag belts to AJ Styles and Omos at WrestleMania 37.

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