10 Obscure Wrestling Retirement Matches You Didn't Know About

10. Kevin Nash

One could make the argument that Kevin Nash retired in 1998; after the explosive and controversial Starrcade main event, he simply stopped trying. He was decent value in TNA when that became his gimmick, playing with the idea that he had no interest in keeping up with his new X-Division peers, but irreverent comedy was the only thing of which he was capable.

Nash was never going to work a full-blown retirement match because that would require effort and care. The idea of a retirement match is for the wrestler to go out there, following a stirring, emotive build loaded with pathos, and do everything imaginable beyond their physical limits to give the fans one last show.

That sounded much too like hard work for Nash, and so it's fitting that he instead wandered into an indie you may not have heard of, did some spots standing up, and decided "Screw this" after the fact before proceeding to start a podcast and sell his own strain of cannabis.

For Big Time Wrestling - which actually draws a respectable gate and can draw top names from time to time - Nash in 2018 won a gauntlet match that also featured Fred Rosser, Flex Armstrong, two wrestlers Cagematch doesn't hold a record for, and the even more irrelevant James Ellsworth.

No footage exists of the match online, but Nash more likely than not walked in as the last man, threw a big boot, and didn't bump once.