8 Famous Wrestlers Whose Careers BRUTALLY Faded Away

6. Mick Foley

It's important to preface this next entry by stating that if Mick Foley had things his way, he would have spent his 60th birthday using a TV truck as an Olympic diving board.

That's because just three years removed from Ric Flair's fare-fare-farewell - and what a hoot that was for all Nashville-based cardiologists(!) - Foley reportedly had plans in motion for his own farewell supershow, with MJF, Jon Moxley, and Matt Cardona all apparently in the running for the role of his opponent. Foley vs. Moxley would have been the ideal choice for many, given their missed opportunity of a match from SummerSlam 2012, but it was supposedly MJF who came the closest to facing 'The Hardcore Legend': they had a secret meeting in Long Island, with a view to moving the match forward.

A concussion suffered at some point during Mick's training put the kabosh on his tussle with Maxwell, and the fact that he isn't sure when exactly he took the knock to the head is concerning enough for Foley never to don the checkered flannel again.

Foley's actual last match was the six minutes he spent in the 2012 Royal Rumble match. He's made the occasional appearance for WWE in the decade-plus since and still takes convention bookings, but his body is on a timer: your writer saw him live during a 2015 appearance in Scotland, and he was most arthritic in his walk down the aisle. Being lobbed off and through the Hell in a Cell structure will do that to a person.