10 WWE Wrestlers Who Retired In Their Prime
4. Paige
Modest cinema success Fighting With My Family profiled the years leading up to Paige's historic title-winning WWE debut, but there's perhaps just as much left in a slightly more challenging sequel following the heartbreaking news she was forced to deliver four years later.
Old enough to know better but young enough to not care, Paige was giving her body to wrestling before she was even born, but the 25 years she'd spent taking bumps sadly culminated in her being forced into retirement at...25.
Tragic in its timing (as if such news is ever really anything but tragic at such a young age), Paige had barely returned from an extended injury absence in late-2017 before absorbing a hard kick to the neck that reaggravated substantial problems she'd dealt with for many years.
Tear-soaked, Paige bid the ring farewell in the same building she'd debuted on the WWE main roster in 2014. The comeback had been all-too-brief for anybody to digest, though she'd at least spent long enough on the roster to ensure there'd be space for her to thrive in other roles post-retirement.