10 WWE Superstars That Got Out At The Right Time
4. Michelle McCool
As evidenced by her efforts in this year's Royal Rumble and the Evolution Battle Royal, Michelle McCool still had the knack for a job she eventually got rather good at after entering a doomed Divas division as one of Vince McMahon's "athletic tens" and little else.
The multi-time Divas/Women's Champion and Lay-Cool star was limited to linking to the arms of lower card males early in her career, but rose up the ranks relatively quickly to replace recent retirees Trish Stratus and Lita as the league's ring general by 2007. Her career was over and done with by 2011, with McCool citing back injuries amongst other knocks as a reason for stepping away from full time action.
In the break between then and her reappearances this year, she's started a family with second husband Mark 'Undertaker' Calaway, implying this too was a reason to step back from the grind of WWE's all-encompassing lifestyle. All told, her legacy will be positive too - the company have given up spinning the pre-Evolution period for women's wrestling as anything other than a disparate disaster. In contrast to that narrative, her work was often great when little greatness was required or requested.