10 Wrestlers Who Quietly Retired

8. Monty Brown

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Monty Brown was arguably TNA's biggest missed opportunity, a potentially-huge organic start that the company passed over in favour of pairing him with Jeff Jarrett as an enforcer/lackey. The TNA fans dearly wanted Monty to become the number one guy in the company, yet inertia and egotism on behalf of the Jarretts stopped this.

Brown eventually made it to World Wrestling Entertainment in 2006 and was repackaged as Marcus Cor Von, making his debut on the ECW brand. Cor Von's final match in the company was a loss against CM Punk in the tournament held to crown a new WWECW Champion, and three months later he was quietly gone.

Brown is an example of a performer who could truly have become something special in the crazy world of professional wrestling, but was never allowed to reach his full potential. His quiet retirement in 2007 was far less than he deserved.

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