Is Sonjay Dutt Retired?

[LiamMcDuggle]

Just seems weird Double J is taking on most of the matches with Lethal when he's 53. Sonjay was a great wrestler in his day and I would love to see him wrestle again 

[Nosnorb]

Dec 2, 2022 0:40:22 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

Just seems weird Double J is taking on most of the matches with Lethal when he's 53. Sonjay was a great wrestler in his day and I would love to see him wrestle again 

Daddy Ass and Sting are both older than Slapnuts and both still wrestle, so it's not that weird for Jeff to still be wrestling. It would probably be stranger if he wasn't, to be honest.

[Hypnosis]

www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2022/07/sonjay-dutt-gives-big-update-on-his-in-ring-future/

Sonjay Dutt last laced up his wrestling boots in 2017 when he unsuccessfully challenged Jonathan Gresham for the Powerbomb.tv Championship at a NOVA Pro Wrestling event. Although, while currently working behind the scenes at All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and as an on-screen heel manager for Jay Lethal, could Dutt be tempted to return to the ring someday?

"There will be zero chance that I will be returning to the ring," Dutt explained on the "AEW Unrestricted" podcast. "Let's put it like this – If I was fixed physically, if my body was 100%, that would be something I would consider. But until that happens, there's no way I'm getting in the ring."

Now focused on a behind-the-scenes role, Dutt initially worked as a backstage producer for WWE in January 2019 while he was sidelined with an Achilles injury. He had learned certain aspects of television with the Indian wrestling promotion, Ring Ka King, created by Panda Energy, who owned Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2012. Dutt left his position as a producer with WWE in June 2021 before joining AEW in a similar role that very same month.

The former Impact X-Division Champion explained in further detail how his transition into a backstage role came about after he got injured.

"I was 35 and I got hurt," Dutt said. "At that time, I was already working in the office at Impact Wrestling, and when I got hurt and I came back from injury, I kind of looked at the landscape and I looked at the big picture of my life — my wife and my children are first and foremost to everything. Getting hurt and my first surgery after 27 years of wrestling, I just figured I'm already working in a backstage capacity. Instead of just splitting my time, let me put all my eggs here in a backstage capacity, and let's see how far this thing goes."

[Johnny Flamingo]

They is a refreshingly level headed take by Dutt. Need more of that in pro wrestling.

I think that leaves him and Sick Nick Mondo on the list of wrestlers who knew when it was time to walk
away.

[06vwgti]

It seems like he can take some bumps to make things interesting for the show, but working an actual match probably not.

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He got off the juice