{"id":215100,"date":"2026-04-17T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=215100"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:55:33","slug":"vampiros-says-jcw-is-the-right-place-to-retire-because-weve-always-been-there-for-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/04\/17\/vampiros-says-jcw-is-the-right-place-to-retire-because-weve-always-been-there-for-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Vampiro says JCW is the right place to retire because &#8220;we&#8217;ve always been there for each other&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1053550725\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Vampiro said he&#8217;s retiring at JCW&#8217;s Strangle-Mania on April 17 because of a combination of where&#8217;s he&#8217;s at physically dealing with injuries and his age. &#8220;Just where I&#8217;m at physically,&#8221; said Vampiro during an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/vip.pwtorch.com\/2026\/04\/09\/vip-podcast-4-9-radican-worldwide-interview-with-vampiro-including-his-thoughts-on-wwe-taking-majority-ownership-of-aaa-danhausen-jericho-cruise-retirement-match-at-jcw-stranglemania-mo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radican Worldwide <\/a>available now for PWTorch VIP members. &#8220;You know, my injuries are so extreme. Plus, I&#8217;m getting older. I&#8217;m 59. It&#8217;s, you know, I could keep extending that and doing that nostalgia ride, but I don&#8217;t feel it. I just, I&#8217;m doing other things in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vampiro said he wants to retire in JCW because of his friendship with ICP and JCW. &#8220;But the friendship I have with ICP and JCW, the brotherhood, I got to say goodbye in Mexico the correct way,&#8221; said Vampiro. &#8220;I kinda wanna, I&#8217;m almost not able to do this anymore at all, even at a horrible level. I wanna just one more, that one more time, &#8216;Hey, don&#8217;t I&#8217;m not asking you to come and see me. I&#8217;m asking you to let me say thank you to you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, JCW is the right place to do that. We&#8217;ve always been there for each other. Even when I was at my peak in the United States, the only ones who I would really call friends, who really took care of me, was JCW. Everybody in the wrestling world knows about me. A lot of people have blackballed me or politically gone against me for whatever reasons. Good, bad, and Ugly. If I&#8217;m guilty, I&#8217;m guilty. It is what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vampiro said that JCW came to him about doing his retirement match at Strangle-Mania. &#8220;JCW is the only place I call home, said Vampiro. &#8220;It&#8217;s the only place that would, that really has given me the opportunity to do this kinda stuff and they asked me if I would be interested in doing it. And of course, why wouldn&#8217;t I be? I&#8217;m blessed to have one more opportunity to go out there and to say say thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trillertv.com\/watch\/jcw-viva-las-violence-2026\/2pjds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0and GO VIP to listen to Vampiro\u2019s exclusive interview on Radican Worldwide talking all aspects of his career ahead of his retirement match at JCW\u2019s Strangle-Mania: Viva Los Violence.<\/p>\n<p>Vampiro\u2019s retirement match against PCO and Big Vito will take place JCW Strangle-Mania: Viva Las Violence event on April 17. 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