Ranking Every WrestleMania Retirement From Worst To Best

8. Kurt Angle - WrestleMania 35

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How depressing. Baron/Happy/Constable/King Corbin isn’t really as bad as his naysayers claim, but that isn’t to say he’s anywhere approaching awesome. Corbin is a serviceable heel who can operate in the upper echelons of the middle of the card, and every wrestling promotion needs those. Corbin does his job, and he does it well.

Despite his abilities, having Kurt Angle’s last match on his resume feels wrong. What’s more, the whole thing was a damp squib, a depressing end to an incredible career. Kurt Angle was one of the greatest superstars of the 21st century, a generation-defining performer whose fingerprints are all over modern pro wrestling. Angle deserved to go out with one last big match, but a middling loss to Baron Corbin at WrestleMania? It feels wrong.

It was entirely forgettable in every way. If the question of who retired Kurt Angle came up in a wrestling pub quiz, a decent chunk of those taking part would have to think long and hard about the answer before coming to the crushingly disappointing realisation that, yes, the answer is Baron Corbin. Welp. In a parallel world, Jason Jordan was given the honour of taking his wrestling dad into the backyard.

Actually, in a parallel world, Chad Gable was revealed as Angle’s son, and this was the culmination of a multi-year storyline, the father passing the weird charisma torch to his son.

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