In an interview with ESPN SportsCenter during WrestleMania week, WWE Hall of Famer Sting commented on his decision to retire from in-ring competition as well as why he announced it at the 2016 WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

On his decision to retire from in-ring competition: “It was a difficult moment for me, because you have the crowd chanting ‘one more match’ and I wanted that one more match. But it’s time for several different reasons, but it was hard to do after 30 years.”

On his neck injury: “It was Night of Champions against Seth Rollins, last year, September 20th 2015 in Houston, TX it was a weird deal I don’t know what happened. There was like a whiplash that happened two times during the match. The first one was shock and numbness down the fingers, and I’ve had that before, but this was pretty severe. The second time it happened I lost control of my legs. Long story short, I have spinal cervical stenosis in two areas of my neck mad there is two spots where the issues I and the neurologist said that I was lucky I walked out of there.”