10 Wrestlers Who Had To Take A Break... Only To Return Better Than Ever

There’s an old saying in the wrestling business when it comes to taking a break and coming back stronger, “You gotta go and learn a new hold.”

Sometimes the audience gets too adjusted and tired of seeing a wrestler doing their same old shtick week after week on television. Wrestlers taking a leave of absence in sports entertainment can sometimes be the best thing for them, and the fans. It gives grapplers a chance to reinvent and revitalise their characters and helps them recover from nagging injuries and refreshes their mental wellbeing too.

Big Show returned in 2016 with abs for the first time in his long career and had some memorable moments and matches with Braun Strowman. Becky Lynch took a six-year hiatus from wrestling in late 2006 after being burned out from slumming it out on the indie circuit for years and came back to grab the brass ring in WWE, becoming the most over female wrestler the company ever had when she won the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championships at WrestleMania 35 in the first ever women’s match to headline the event. Edge and Christian in recent years have both come back too at Royal Rumbles and looked better than ever.

Sometimes the best thing for wrestlers is to go away for a little while and rethink and retool...