10 WWE Superstars That Should Consider Retirement In 2018
Take The Long Road And Walk It
Brock Lesnar was booked to absolutely p*ss himself following a Monday Night Raw attack by Kane, and rightfully so.
'The Beast' was in-part playing homage to a legendary SummerSlam 2015 moment between himself and 'The Big Red Machine's brother The Undertaker, but in sitting up from a chokeslam before powering one of his Royal Rumble foes to the floor, Brock firmly reduced Kane's overarching threat to the level it should realistically be placed at.
A forced third wheel in an ill-timed rematch between the Universal Champion and eventual permanent headliner Braun Strowman, Kane's placement in the January title clash is hopefully just to ensure neither creditable behemoth has to look at the lights ahead of whatever WrestleMania fate awaits them. And so it should be.
Wrestling's 'time-honoured tradition' dictates that a departing star goes out in defeat, and if anybody from the current Raw roster looks ready for the gold watch treatment from WWE, it's the potential future Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs. He's perhaps only 'The Devil's Favourite Demon' because he sold his soul to Satan in order to get a title match in 2018.
And he's not the only one on a bloated roster currently need of an exit strategy. Thanks to NXT and an independent scene they can wilfully pillage at a moment's notice, WWE has never been so rich with young/hungry/both talent. If only some of the old guard would shift aside...
10. The Big Show
Gamely putting Braun Strowman over the last time he appeared on television, The Big Show was overdue a 'last' match long before some of the horror shows he assembled in 2017.
A feud with Big Cass was a definitive lowlight. Little more than a substitute seven-footer for Enzo Amore to bounce lines off of during the darkest days of the former NXT favourites' split, Show didn't remotely elevate Cass in their useless contests, suggesting not for the first time that his aura had been fatally diminished by virtue of repeated similar efforts in recent years.
He was rarely booked well by WWE, but particularly lacklustre interest in the giant from the creative team since 2014 has risked his storied career ending with a whimper rather than the bang of his well-protected knockout punch. If, and it's the largest 'if' in Sports Entertainment he has got another match in him, the company should make as much of it being his definitive finale.
A few more months on the fictional shelf should give his facial and head hair ample time to grow back too - a case of the King Kong Bundies wasn't a good look for his parting shot.