This past Sunday night saw Tyrus drop the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship to EC3, with the stipulation being that if the FOX News host lost, he had to retire from the sport. And now confirming he is honoring that stipulation, Tyrus has discussed his pro wrestling retirement while appearing on FOX News. Revealing the time was right because he couldn’t be on the road as much as was required due to his other career opportunities and his wanting to spend more time with his family.
“Honestly, it came down to I wanted to keep wrestling so all my kids could see me wrestle and wrestling for 20 years, and it’s been it opened so many doors for me. The WWE Impact Wrestling in Japan. I was a little chubby kid who wanted to be like his heroes, Dusty Rhodes and Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff, and Haku, Andre the Giant. And I did that. I accomplished those things, and I was able to use that platform to establish myself here to become an author.
And it was just you get to a point as an athlete where it’s subtraction by addition your career to be a great wrestler, you got to go 300 days a year. You got to train, you got to do those things. The NWA is growing, and they got live events now, and they’re doing all these things. My job was to promote, and I was the NWA champion. That’s a small list. They can never take that away from me. And it was just time, and I talked to my family about it. My kids voted, and I said, ‘That’s one last weekend that Daddy’s gone.’”
Tyrus50-year-old Tyrus is best known in the wrestling business for his second WWE run between 2010 and 2014, where he was known as Brodus Clay. Additionally, he also found success in TNA/Impact Wrestling between 2014 and 2018. However, his most significant in-ring career achievement came as part of Billy Corgan’s NWA when he won the legendary NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship. Joining the likes of Ric Flair, Harley Race, and Terry Funk in holding the famous championship belt and securing his place alongside them in history.
