{"id":42967,"date":"2019-04-01T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=42967"},"modified":"2019-04-01T21:04:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T01:04:32","slug":"amazing-red-seemingling-retires-that-is-not-april-fools-this-is-not-a-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/01\/amazing-red-seemingling-retires-that-is-not-april-fools-this-is-not-a-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Red Seemingly Retires: “That Is Not April Fools, This Is Not A Work”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just prior to the beginning of Monday Night Raw<\/strong><\/em>, former 4x IMPACT X-Division Champion Amazing Red<\/strong> announced he was retiring from pro wrestling as an active performer effective immediately, cancelling his scheduled matches over WrestleMania week, including a single match against Rey Fenix<\/strong> at House of Glory<\/strong> Culture Clash ’19<\/strong><\/em> and at Fight Club: PRO x Destiny Wrestling<\/strong> Fight For Destiny<\/strong><\/em>, where he was booked to team with Robbie Eagles & Puma King<\/strong> against CCK<\/strong> (Chris Brookes & Kid Lykos) & Aussie Open<\/strong>‘s Kyle Fletcher<\/strong>. He announced his retirement on his Twitter Monday night and with the day of his announcement making the video seem a tad suspect – April 1, April Fool’s Day – Amazing Red wanted to make sure people realized it was real.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmazingRed1\/status\/1112859081260363776<\/p>\n

Here’s his full statement:<\/p>\n

“I just wanted to say to you guys that I’m leaving wrestling. This is not April Fool’s, this is not a work, this is no breaking kayfabe, this is me being real…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I was actually supposed to do this after the (WWE) Cruiserweight Classic. I feel like I’ve done everything I was supposed to do, especially through HOG (House of Glory). So I’m cancelling all the shows I was doing for Mania weekend.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m still going to teach at HOG. I’m going to support wrestling. I just want to thank everyone that helped me out, through my journey. Throughout <\/em><\/strong>all my life, I have done things for everybody else. I’ve never done things for myself.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was just everybody else telling me, can you wrestle this person? Can you wrestle me? Red, don’t quit, you’re too young. I have to do what’s good for me now.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I only stayed cause of HOG, and my students, and Brian. Be happy for me, don’t be upset. The reason why I made this video was for myself, cause once I know I put this out there, there’s no turning back.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is me looking out for me. So be happy about that. Have fun this week.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazing Red is a 21-year pro who has been a pioneer and icon on the US indie scene and style, and has mentored countless top stars in the world of wrestling. For a look back at his career and how he influenced WWE Superstar Sasha Banks, check out our past article on Red’s amazing career.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just prior to the beginning of Monday Night Raw, former 4x IMPACT X-Division Champion Amazing Red announced he was retiring from pro wrestling as an active performer effective immediately, cancelling his scheduled matches over WrestleMania week, including a single match against Rey Fenix at House of Glory Culture Clash ’19 and at Fight Club: PRO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":42969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3556],"class_list":["post-42967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-amazing-red"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}