Brian Cage may be getting older, but he only seems to be feeling better and better.
At the age of 42, former ROH World Television Champion Brian Cage is continuing his usual in-ring conditioning. As revealed on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, he’s also taken up MMA and jiu jitsu training, which, combined with his typical exercise routine, has contributed to an overall better physical condition.
According to Cage, he feels better now at age 42 than he did throughout his 30s.
“I was trying to tell everyone, after all these years of wrestling, my age, everything else, you should be wearing down, and I feel so good,” Cage said. “The amount of wrestling training, which I almost never really do a lot of, kind of get back in the ring and work off some rust. But then I was training all the time in the ring, training all the time in the gym.
“Actually, I’m doing a bunch of MMA and jiu jitsu training, I was just feeling so good. After tons of leg days trying to build my legs back up, and not once did I ever get out and go oh, this hurts, oh, that hurt. Everything was feeling great. I was like, this is the best I think I’ve ever [felt]. I feel better now than I think I was feeling in my 30s. This is crazy.”
Cage spent more than a year on the shelf after tearing his quad tendon and undergoing multiple knee surgeries. On the May 13 edition of AEW Dynamite, he finally returned to AEW action by challenging Kevin Knight for the TNT Championship. “The Machine” has since wrestled two other AEW matches and some on indie shows.
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