10 WWE Wrestlers Who Had Their Momentum Repeatedly Halted By Major Injuries
3. Edge
Speaking of wrestlers who miraculously returned to retire on their own terms...Edge!
Edge's stellar wrestling career has been fraught with peril since as early as February 2003, when he sustained a neck injury that sidelined him for a year. Upon his return in March of 2004, Edge gradually assumed his place as a top-level heel before once again going down, this time to a torn pectoralis major muscle, in October of 2005.
A few months later, Edge would return to finally win his first WWE Championship from John Cena at New Year's Revolution 2006. Multiple WWE and World Heavyweight Championship reigns would follow before he'd once again tear his pec in July 2007. He'd be back later that year and enjoy a year and a half long run before tearing his Achilles tendon in July of 2009.
What was supposed to be a year on the shelf turned into six months, as he returned to win the 2010 Royal Rumble. A little over a year later, while still World Heavyweight Champion, Edge shockingly announced his retirement from wrestling at just 37 years old. He revealed that his neck injury had progressed to a point where doctors believed that one more rough bump could either kill him or put him in a wheelchair.
Yet somehow, by the grace of God, Edge managed to prove everybody wrong, returning to in-ring competition at the 2020 Royal Rumble. Though he's currently on the DL once more with a torn triceps, the fact that he can wrestle at all is awe-inspiring.