Mercedes Martinez confirms her immediate retirement due to an injury

So we are just about 3/4 of the way into this last run tour, and about two weeks ago I injured my knee. Two doctors later, an MRI later, the prognosis is torn ACL.

For most it’s probably not a career-ending injury, but for me it is. So I humbly and am heartbroken to even say this but that’s the end of my wrestling career.

This was the year, as everyone knows, that it was going to be my last year full-time, meaning that I wasn’t going to wrestle every weekend, not even once a month, maybe special occasions after this year. I wanted to give back to women’s wrestling. I wanted to do this my way and give 110% and give my body to wrestling.

And I did just that.”