10 Times Wrestling Ruined What You Loved

6. Your Favourite Wrestlers (General)

Ric Flair's Last Match Jeff Jarrett Jay Lethal Andrade El Idolo
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Wrestling has proven a seemingly impossible industry to step away from, which proves problematic when it's a job that does so much to make it hard to keep doing.

"Ric Flair Last Match" is a show sold around that titular premise, 14 years after the same one was made to sell WrestleMania 24's epic clash between 'The Nature Boy' and Shawn Michaels. In between then, Flair worked 12 times for TNA as well as a handful of Australian house show clashes with Hulk Hogan. The same Hulk Hogan that retired him as per a stipulation in 1995, two years after the last time he promised never to wrestle again.

And on and on that goes. And it's far from a Ric Flair problem. Terry Funk's "last match" was documented by the Beyond The Mat cameras, making a proto-meme star out of Dennis Stamp in the process. 'The Funker' was back in the ring 11 days later in Japan and was back on WWE television within a month. Retirements were and evidently still are easy sales pitches, and wrestlers themselves don't need much convincing to have one last night in the spotlight.

 
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