10 Wrestlers Who Quietly Retired

3. Dusty Rhodes

Dusty Rhodes
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Did Dusty Rhodes ever truly retire? Well, yes, of course he did. Rhodes retirement is thought to have happened around 2007, although the American Dream is most certainly one of the biggest names in the pile of men who stopped wrestling but would pop up in between the ropes from time to time.

His last official match came in that year however, a surprisingly palatable Texas Bullrope match loss to Randy Orton. Dusty was punted in the head the next night on RAW, which served to transition him from an onscreen role into a backstage one.

It was a curiously quiet send-off for a man who simply must be regarded as one of the most influential professional wrestlers in the history of the sport. Rhodes passed away last June, the mass of respect and love that poured out of wrestlers old and young acting as his true goodbye from the sport of professional wrestling.

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