8 Wrestlers Who Faked Their Retirement
1. Roddy Piper
Whether he lost his lustrous mane or not at the hands of Adrian Adonis at WrestleMania III, Roddy Piper was swapping sleeper holds for the Hollywood Dream after the match.
On the night, Piper sent Adonis to the land of Nod, and with a kiss of Howard Finkel's head for luck, he tucked his sporran under his kilt and swanned off to Tinseltown.
Though Hot Rod's acting flirtation produced cult classic They Live, the silver screen didn't keep him away from wrestling for long. He was back in the ring within two years - albeit with a mic in hand - to hose down Morton Downey Jr. at WrestleMania V, before putting his work boots back on a month later. The Silverdome wasn't even Piper's last WrestleMania match - that'd come almost a decade later, when he stripped Goldust down to his particulars in a transphobic, nearly literal car crash of a Backlot Brawl at WrestleMania XII.