WWE Corridor of Famer Beth Phoenix has formally confirmed in a brand new interview with Chris Van Vliet on Perception that her time with WWE has come to an finish. This was rumored on the finish of final month by PWInsider. Now could be the query will she be a part of her husband, Adam Copeland/Edge, in AEW?
Van Vliet requested Phoenix if she would have no less than one final match. Phoenix had just a few matches in WWE over the previous few years both by the aspect of her husband on in Royal Rumbles.
Her response was as follows:
“It’s actually onerous to say you’re retired. Once I left in 2012, that was the phrase I threw round loads. ‘I’m retired. I’m retired,’ as a result of I wished to have a household. I knew, for myself, that wasn’t going to be in congruence to carry out and to have children. I wanted to commit myself to the youngsters at the moment. I give the age ol’ cliche that everyone hates, ‘By no means say by no means.’ It actually simply will depend on the alternatives and what fits our household. That’s actually it. We weigh out all the things. Adam’s alternatives, too. I bear in mind when Percy Jackson got here on the desk and he was full-time in WWE. It was actually onerous to take that on, however we weighed out all the things. We sat as a household and made that call. ‘That is large. That is the largest appearing alternative that has come our approach. You want to go do that. That is large.’ We talked about saying no to that. We talked about all the things that comes our approach as a household and does that serve us now? How does it have an effect on our children? How does it have an effect on our marriage? That issues too.” (Fightful)
On not being with WWE:
“I’m not,” she mentioned when requested if she was underneath contract with WWE. “I’m at the moment a free agent. I’ve an important relationship with WWE. I treasured my time there. I really feel like there’s extra and different alternatives which have introduced themselves and I really feel the motivation now to discover and discover what else is on the market and discover myself. My relationship with WWE hasn’t modified. I’ve so many associates there and I respect and benefit from the product as I all the time have. I like NXT. I’ve a particular place in my coronary heart for NXT and the system. Seeing individuals come up and undergo that pleasure of creating themselves for the large time. I like WWE. I all the time will.”
For the complete interview you may watch beneath –