8 Famous Wrestlers Whose Careers BRUTALLY Faded Away

You'd be quicker looking through a list of wrestlers never to have appeared for TNA than you would scanning the TNA alumni page on Wikipedia. Everyone has walked through the IMPACT Zone at least once in their career. Cody Rhodes? Check. Jon Moxley? Check. WhatCulture's own Simon Miller? Check. You reading this right now? Check your email, partner: you're headlining Slammiversary.

Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, Randy Savage actually ended his career in TNA. Four years after he had exited WCW, 'The Macho Man' was brought in as a surprise to close out Victory Road 2004, the company's first monthly pay-per-view since abandoning the weekly PPV cycle. He was booked alongside AJ Styles and Jeff Hardy in the main event of Turning Point the following month, where they defeated The Kings of Wrestling (Jeff Jarrett, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall, rather than Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli).

Even by 2004 standards, with Hall and Nash well beyond their best-before date, and Styles not yet as phenomenal as he would become, this was a genuine wrestling all-stars affair - until it wasn't.

Randy Savage wasn't Randy Savage that night: he was UK tribute show Randy Savage. Gone were the trademark mannerisms, colourful attire, and Diving Elbow Drop, and in their place was a middle-aged man who couldn't even throw a convincing punch. That's how the match ended, too; having no-showed until the closing minute, Savage stumbled into the ring, and countered a Jeff Jarrett sunset flip by thwacking him on the head.

Savage's Bonesaw McGraw-inspired all-black apparel best summarised how much soul this match had once he joined in.