Nigel McGuinness Doesn't Rule Out Coming Out Of Retirement At AEW All In

All Elite Wrestling will make their UK debut later this year with All In from Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 27 and Nigel McGuinness hasn't ruled out making his return to the squared circle at the major event. 

McGuinness told Digital Spy: 

"It's certainly the event and perhaps a final chapter to my career, to my journey, so Wembley Stadium certainly springs to mind. There are a number of factors, I'm an age now and at a place in my life where I certainly don't want to harm the rest of my life. I don't want to get any injuries or anything serious that's going to impinge my ability to enjoy my life as a parent or to travel. So that's certainly a concern. 

"You've also got to understand that at a show like Wembley, there are so many guys that are super talented and deserve those spots as well, so to take one of those spots for myself I think would be pretty hard. I think if we sell the place out, maybe I've got no argument but to go dust the boots off. But it's so many things, it's the event, it's the opponent, it's the timing and it's hard to know. I cannot give you a definitive in that regard."

If he does come out of retirement, McGuinness has named Bryan Danielson as an obvious opponent before also mentioning the likes of MJF and Jonathan Gresham.

"In terms of dream opponents, obviously it would have to be someone like Dragon [Bryan Danielson], given our history and the true story that's there. I think the best stories, the best angles in wrestling, always have that undercurrent of reality and it's just so real there. It's just so real and it's so honest and authentic and nuanced as well in the sense that, it's not just as simple as there's a good guy and a bad guy, you can understand and you can identify with both of our journeys. We were once going in the same direction and now we've gone in completely different paths, but there's a lot of emotion there to establish and even if that means me just being on commentary for a match of his as well," the former ROH World Champion stated.

"There are guys like Jonathan Gresham or MJF as well, those sort of guys that you go, 'Yeah, I think I could really have a great match with them. But then you think to yourself, 'Well, the old Nigel McGuinness could really have a great match with them.' I'm not sure about that Nigel McGuinness now. Someone said a while ago, 'I bet you could get in the ring tomorrow, couldn't you?' I said, 'I'm sure I could, I'm just not sure I could get back out afterwards, that's the reality of it.'" 

McGuinness recently joined AEW/ROH, returning to Ring of Honor at Supercard of Honor on Friday, March 31. He has since served as a colour commentator on ROH TV alongside Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman. McGuinness also announced AEW would be debuting in the UK with All In on the April 5 episode of Dynamite.