10 Best Wrestlers In WWE Over The Age Of 40
Age is just a number - although for these guys, it happens to be a rather large one...
In a business in which guys begin training in their teens, then go on to spend the next 20 years getting slammed on their back five nights a week, it’s something of an achievement in and of itself for a wrestler to still be performing past their 40th birthday.
As a result, the WWE roster doesn’t actually feature too many performers over the age of 40. On the female side, for instance, there’s nobody over that threshold, with Tamina being closest at 39 years old. And so, even though this article is about the ten best wrestlers over 40 in WWE, their limited numbers mean it’s more a case of ranking everybody over 40, rather than picking out ten standouts.
Still, it is just about possible to muster a gaggle of over-40s who are still under contract as active performers, some of whom are clearly over the hump, and others who just seem to get better with age—like a fine wine, or Shawn Michaels.
Here, we look to name the best of that bunch. But bear in mind, we won't be considering part-timers like Triple H, guys like the Undertaker who are now seemingly retired, and those like Mark Henry, who've recently switched to backstage roles within the company.
10. Titus O’Neil
These days, much of Titus O’Neil’s in-ring work has been limited to the house show circuit, but he’s still very much listed as an active member of the WWE roster.
On television, O’Neil’s spent the last few months in more of a managerial role, trying to build up the Titus Brand—now Titus Worldwide—and recruiting the likes of Apollo Crews and Akira Tozawa as his up-and-coming clients. Obviously, it’s all a little tongue-in-cheek, and the group’s strange-bedfellows vibe has actually given way to some pretty amusing backstage skits. But it takes a lot more than just amusing backstage skits to make a decent wrestler. In the ring, O’Neil has never really set the world alight, with just one Tag Team Championship win since his main roster debut in 2012. Arguably his biggest claim to fame arrived on commentary, with a cracking performance in which he owned JBL a few years back, though he undid that good work by bombing during an in-ring promo on Raw after just after SummerSlam 2016.
Dave Meltzer probably said it best: "Titus isn't very good but he's got a good look. And he's tall. And he goes Urrurrurr."
Based on that, it’s difficult to rank O’Neil much higher than this.