10 Wrestling Retirement Matches Where The Loser Came Back
3. Cactus Jack Vs. Triple H - No Way Out 2000
Triple H may have won his first WWE World Championship in 1999, but he didn't really become a star until 2000, when Mick Foley put him over in a career-making feud. HHH and Stephanie had toyed with Mankind, eventually firing him, but when Foley returned as Cactus Jack, fans knew that "The Game" would come to regret his actions.
The two men fought in a street fight at the 2000 Royal Rumble, a brutal contest that saw Triple H outlast Cactus Jack to pick up the win. In response, the hardcore icon challenged "The Game" to one more match - a Hell in a Cell contest with his career on the line. That bout was another classic, and fans' hearts were broken when Cactus Jack once again came up short.
Foley's retirement was famously short-lived - he competed the following month at WrestleMania 2000. Still, he reiterated that he was committed to honouring the stipulation and that, win or lose, WrestleMania would be his last bout. That was true... for a while. In 2004, he came back for intermittent WWE runs and, in 2009, he competed for TNA, becoming their world champion in the process.