10 Saddest Ends To Legendary WWE Careers

10. Bret Hart

Bret went undefeated in his second WWE run between 2010 and 2011, so why does he feature here? While he may not have suffered a loss, and also had a week-long reign as United States Champion (for some reason), Hart was clearly not the performer he used to be.

Before Goldberg's boot got a little too familiar with The Hitman's head, Bret was the best technical wrestler on the planet. In 2010, he was a stroke survivor in his 50s, and no longer the supreme in-ring general of the 1990s. The WrestleMania XXVI grudge match with Vince McMahon would have provided a great storyline closer, 13 years in the making, had it been a five-minute demolition. Instead, we had to watch 11 minutes of mostly old men beating down an even older man as the crowd willed for the finish.

After that painful match, Hart won the US title from The Miz, then relinquished the belt to become to General Manager of Raw; a poorly fitting role for a man whose one big fault was a lack of charisma. Bret was put into a few tags and multi-man matches to protect him, but it was sad to see The Best There Was go out as a passenger.