10 Awesome Wrestlers Who Quit Before They Were 40

10. Johnny Jeter

Johnny Jeter was considered a top prospect in OVW and a can't-miss star for WWE's future.

He formed a tag team in the developmental territory with Matt Cappotelli, then turned on the Tough Enough winner after winning the OVW Championship. The two feuded over the title, then Jeter was called up to the main roster.

Unfortunately, his call-up didn't go as well as expected. He was repacked as "Johnny", a male cheerleader and one member of the five-man Spirit Squad. Along with Ken Doane, Mike Mondo, Nick Mitchell, and Nick Nemeth, Jeter won the WWE World Tag Team Championship, but the group soon became a comedy act that would be squashed by Triple H and Shawn Michaels on a weekly basis.

They were taken off TV after less than a year. While WWE gave Jeter a few appearances under his old name, mainly on house shows, he was soon released without making any kind of impact.

The Spirit Squad gimmick turned out to be a career-killer for everyone but Nemeth, and in Jeter's case, it was literal. Though he briefly returned to OVW after the league stopped being a feeder for WWE, in 2008 the then-26-year-old decided to leave wrestling altogether.

He became an accountant, and apart from a single set of appearances for Chikara in 2014, he hasn't been back in the ring since.