10 Wrestlers Who Quietly Retired

by John Bills

1. The Undertaker

Rumours of retirement follow The Undertaker around like a bad smell, although if you were a dead man then bad smells tend to be part of your everyday doings. Even so, for the last few years Taker has turned up around WrestleMania season only, and each year comes with talk of his body and how many matches he has left in him. I dare say that number may be low.

If Taker has indeed retired and done so without an announcement, it would be a fitting way for one of the most iconic men in the history of the sport to go. Taker isn't the norm in pro wrestling, a man who stays true to kayfabe as much as possible and one who has resisted the temptation to release books and be interviewed out of character. If anyone is going to retire without making a big deal of it, The Undertaker is that man.

And truth be told, this may be for the best at this point. Since Brock Lesnar inflicted defeat on him at WrestleMania the aura around Taker hasn't been the same. He may well have retired at this point, and a much-deserved retirement that would be.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.