10 Wrestlers Who Quietly Retired

5. William Regal

William Regal
WWE.com

William Regal now works as WWE's main eyes on professional wrestling outside of the company, recommending top independent talent left right and centre to those in charge of drawing up contracts. Regal has often been credited as the man responsible for the influx of outside talent into the company, as well as the quick development of many performers working out of the Performance Center.

Anyone care to guess when Regal's last match was? You'd have to travel all the way back to Christmas Day 2014 and an episode of NXT that aired that day, where Regal came up short against none other than Antonio Cesaro.

Since then Regal has been acting as the onscreen commissioner of NXT, as well as working in training and recruitment. It seems less and less likely all the time that Regal will return to the ring, meaning one of the all-time respected men of wrestling has gone quietly off into his pipe and slippers.

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