10 Obscure Wrestling Retirement Matches You Didn't Know About

7. The Ultimate Warrior

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Nu-Wrestling Evolution

Some promoter in Barcelona must have had a fortune - or still has an unsold lot of the worst comic books that nobody has ever read - because they were somehow capable of coaxing the Ultimate Warrior out of retirement.

He worked Orlando Jordan in June 2008 for Nu-Wrestling Evolution, and was somehow convinced to go 17 minutes when he would hardly go past eight unless he was in there with Hogan, Rude or Savage. Of course, Warrior was gassed for around 14 of those minutes, but the fans seemed quite happy to see him.

It was a very odd epilogue to his career, which by that point had been over for a decade. He must have needed the money, and he didn't fancy TNA, per Jeff Jarrett.

God, can you imagine Warrior in the Impact Zone?

AJ Styles would have done a better job than J. Robert Oppenheimer at blowing him up.

In an interesting trivia note, given that you'd never imagine these two wrestlers ever working on the same card, PAC also wrestled on the show - he, as Jungle Pac, was defeated by the once well-regarded Super Nova.

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