8 Wrestlers Who Faked Their Retirement

8. Kevin Owens

So dramatic was Kevin Owens' fall from grace in 2018, from Universal Champion and best bud to a List-making Chris Jericho to a listing heel upended in a portable toilet, that he decided it was time to give up the ghost, prematurely.

After a losing tilt at Seth Rollins' Intercontinental Championship last August, KO sank his knackered body into a ringchair and told fans, "I quit."

And that was that. We haven't seen Kevin Owens again, having made good on his vow to leave the locker-room. Oh, what's that? Sorry, that's right: he returned a single week later, with absolutely no explanation whatsoever, blindsiding Bobby Lashley as if nothing had ever happened.

The worst thing about this latest episode of Boy Cries Wolf was that fans, so well-conditioned to WWE's non-linear narratives, didn't give the slightest fig about either the angle or lack of continuity.