8 Wrestlers Who Performed Into Their 50s

8. Finlay

Everyone's favourite Belfast bruiser has been in his 50s for about twenty years now, but that didn't stop him from competing right up until 2012, when he finally hung up his shillelagh at the age of 54.

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His first brush with the mainstream came in WCW, but younger fans will recognise Finlay for his WWE run towards the late 2000s, where he fought King Booker's royal corner, and repeatedly put himself in harm's way to keep his pint-sized sidekick Hornswoggle out of trouble.

While he was never a headline name, the Northern Irishman became one of the company's most reliable performers, and only a handful of his contemporaries kept up such an intense schedule at the same age.

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