Kane addresses whether he would return for WWE retirement match

It doesn’t sound like WWE Hall of Famer Kane has any plans to return to the ring for one more match.

It’s been seven years since Kane last regularly competed, and he has not wrestled at all since being an entrant in the 2021 Royal Rumble. With wrestling retirements in the news this week due to Goldberg’s final match, Kane appeared on SiriusXM’s Off The Ropes and briefly addressed whether he would return for a retirement bout.

“[Laughs] I don’t know about that, man,” he told hosts Jonathan Coachman and Nic Nemeth. “We were just talking about athleticism and movement and keeping up with the pace of people nowadays. That may have left me behind, guys.”

The 58-year-old Kane, whose real name is Glenn Jacobs, currently serves as the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Due to term limits, he is ineligible to run for the office again in 2026 after already serving two four-year terms.

A retirement match may be unlikely, but Kane told Off The Ropes that he does miss entertaining the fans.

“Yeah,” Kane responded when asked if he misses anything from his WWE career. “I don’t miss the travel [laughs], but I think that’s a lot better nowadays. They don’t keep the schedule that we did. You know, it’s become even more of a TV product, which I would assume is probably even more stressful than what we had.

“But nevertheless, yeah, I do, man. Because it’s fun to go out there and entertain, it’s fun to interact with the fans and the people who love pro wrestling, who love WWE. I still get that, and it is the coolest thing ever. You know, one of my great regrets is I wish I had appreciated that more early in my career and then even throughout my career. The fact that you really are, man — people are watching you, you’re entertaining them. And in many cases, you’re taking them from what could be a tough situation in their own life and they get to forget it about for a little bit by coming into this fantasy world. Man, that’s a blessing. It’s a gift, and it’s really cool. And I do miss that part of it.”

Kane began his wrestling career in the early 1990s and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2021.