10 Wrestling Details That Aren’t As Important As You Think
9. Every Retirement Ever
Retirements in wrestling are like DDTs. At one point, they used to mean the end of something, but now they're more a transitional move. Also, if you take in too many of them, your head will start to hurt.
The last hurrah of a wrestler is almost never actually final. Wrestlers who have been "retired" by a match stipulation will usually worm their way back into the ring and, sometimes, they aren't even gone for that long!
Take Mick Foley in 2000. He lost a "retirement" match against Triple H in February, but by April was challenging for the World Championship in the main event of WrestleMania.
Ric Flair's "Last Match" took place a full 14 years after Shawn Michaels "retired him" at WrestleMania XXIV. Speaking of Michaels, he ignored his loss to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVI to reform DX for a 2018 tag match in Saudi Arabia.
And don't even get us started on Terry Funk. He's made a career out of ending his career.
The point is, wrestling retirements mean nothing, which is a shame, because if done correctly, a retirement angle can be something really special.