10 Wrestlers Who Should Have Stayed Retired
7. The Undertaker
No matter how successful he gets at pulling YouTube faces for his podcast, The Undertaker’s career will always be synonymous with decades of destruction and dominance in WWE, particularly at WrestleMania, where he built a 21-0 winning streak that surel won't ever be touched.
His streak-breaking match against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania XXX could have been the perfect moment to hang up the boots, and per his Network docu-series, it was that fairytale ending he'd always been looking for. However, The Undertaker continued to wrestle, with mostly stinkers to his post-2014 name.
While there were still flashes of brilliance (The Graveyard Dogs was inspired in concept and execution), there were far more lows. The infamous match against Goldberg at Super ShowDown 2019 was a catastrophe, with both men struggling to perform basic moves, culminating in a match that had fans wincing in discomfort. Another problem - it wasn't the only one from around that time and as an act that was saved almost exclusively for big stages, his shockers were being viewed by the biggest possible audiences.
His final match against AJ Styles at WrestleMania 36 was a fitting end to his run proper, but the years of diminishing performances before it left something of a bittersweet taste.