10 Wrestlers Who Should Have Stayed Retired
2. Kane
Kane mostly always sucked bell-to-bell - name five great singles matches or ten great tag matches from a 20+ year run, you can't - but the more he finally disappeared from view, the more it stung when he returned.
Charmless as a character nearly two full decades into his main roster career, his full time run as The Authority's school trousers-wearing goon stripped him of any remaining aura and/or magical powers that might have continued to carry him even further past his expiry date. The diminished returns from there were such that a move into politics was as welcome for wrestling fans as it was the cranks that follow him on social media.
A walking talking example of WWE simply just doing things, his re-insertion into the main event picture in and around the 2018 Royal Rumble was creatively pathetic. Braun Strowman was no more established as the roster's new monster by beating Kane any more than he was getting drilled in the head for real by Brock Lesnar - and it least those stiff strikes only hurt Strowman rather than everybody having to watch.