@Rueben Who 🤣🤣🤣 true they did come back, except Stone Cold Steve Austin only came back for one match, Idk if his coming back again to do another match.
That and several other caveats or asterisks should be in the description. I would argue Shawn Michaels never left retirement for 2 reasons: 1. He still performed moves and his finisher as part of Cameos and Cameos shouldn't count, so Saudi Arabia can be a Cameo (sort of like when Retired Wrestlers show up and his their finisher on someone in a segment, or TV/Movie Appearance) 2. Saudi Arabia isn't Canon and never should be considered Canon. Nothing good has come from any of their shows, except Titus's Ring Dive (Yes, I'm including Fiend's win of the Title because it never should have happened, just like his loss to Goldberg never should have happened) EDIT: WWE doesn't even acknowledge all of their own history. Phantom Title Wins are a thing, some Legitimate Title Wins aren't part of their history. Also, RETCON is a thing. This IS a tv show, remember? Its a scripted fictional story.
“Wwe policy with the regards of Christian injury” pretty much translates to “We aren’t going to have another Chris Benoit controversy so no more wrestling for you Christian”
@@angelking3708 When Bryan returned he was a lot younger than what Christian is now. Bryan’s injuries were also not as severe (plus Bryan’s return made WWE a lot more money than wheat they would make from Christians return)
@@tajari2002 Sheamus was never at a point where he was forced to retire. They kept him in a team with Cesaro because he was starting to get worse (in terms of health) but was never close to the condition of Christan. Also concussions were not the main concern of Sheamus. It was mostly his neck and spine which concerned doctors.
Same feelings here. and it wasn't even for the ultimate dream match with AJ Styles...but it was for the money. Part of the many reasons I can't watch anymore.
@@megcrane5689 that's not coming out of retirement .....so because stone cold Steve Austin hit a stunner on Byron Saxton earlier in the year he came out of retirement? Hell nah!!......Shawn retired in 2010 and came out of retirement in 2018 not 2020..
5:54 Afterwards, he (Ultimate Warrior) retired, and barring a one-off match..." If he wrestled another match, HE DID NOT STAY RETIRED! If you count Warrior this way, you need to count Shawn Michaels as well.
The video seems to be only counting wrestlers who choose to retire and stay retired. JBLs first retirement was forced by injury not choice, once he actually decided to hang it up he stuck to it
She was a pudding head. Punk was a super pudding head. There was obviously a failed drug test by Punk and they made it go away with him exiting this way.
lol and where am i now? "since hes not going to go against the org and try elsewhere" lmao! im not dissing this channel i just feel its hillarious he guessed everything wrongly abt christian!
Austin was actually scheduled to come back for one match. Against Coach. Jonathan Coachman. But when he found out that Coach was actually going to go over... Austin said "EH EH. THAT JUST AIN'T GONNA CUT IT." So we got Batista in a handicap match against Coach, Vader, and Goldust. Vader and Goldust hadn't been seen in a while so that was kind of cool.
How times have changed since this video. Christian and CM Punk are back, and Stone Cold Steve Austin came back at WrestleMania 38 for his final match ever against Kevin Owens.
The best part about Kobashi’s retirement is that he got married and had a daughter not long after. He’s a proud papa and still does commentary for Pro Wrestling Noah. Not just that, he runs occasional all-star cards under his own promotion, Fortune KK.
I don’t think he’s counting people who came back from injuries that were thought to be career ending. Like is Shawn Michaels hadn’t come back for the match in Saudi he’d make the list despite his 1998 retirement
On the network I've been watching raw from 1996 to the present (don't ask why I started in 96') and doesn't JBL retire and then come back from a commentary position around 07'-08' to have a meh heel run with Mania matches against Finlay(with Hornswoggle), and a retirement match against Rey Mysterio? That's 2 retirements I see there
The number 1 on this list hands down should have been Nikita Koloff. He was a beast who retired in the absolute prime of his career, injury free and specifically because he said he had made all the money he needed. He never wrestled again, and I don't beleive he even made any appearances after 1992 or so. The guy is around 60 and still looks like he could wrestle today. Austin made many appearances including physical confrontations (I know this was from well before his wrestlemania return), and CM Punk has now un-retired.
@@macethegr8 And it took this video to kind of remind people of that. JBL treated the business with respect and it blessed him so he did right by it in return
Amazing how this aged so quickly! “No chance Christian will get the green light from wwe” then enters the rumble. “Hes wont to go against the company” then joins AEW 😆 then Punk making a triumphant return and Steve coming back this year 😂
You missed tazz! He hasn't so much as taken a bump or hit a move or anything. I used to enjoy watching tna, it was funny to me how nobody so much as laid a finger on him
He had recurring neck injury (he originally broke it in ECW) and then got bored with wrestling (stopped getting butterflies in his stomach before matches).
I think currently after seeing this and post survivor series. Undertake is hanging up the coat for sure. Appearing in more interviews, doing the 2K commercial and arguably more to come, being more involved with social media and being free to talk about his wrestling, gimmick, backstage moments and history as well use terms marks like to overuse that only wrestlers use grammatically and not have to dress like the american badass in public or try to ignore business based questions. He is free to do what he wishes. Probably the only retiring wrestler who won't be opening a gym, training or working backstage on stories, gimmicks and NXT. Undertaker is by far one of the only wrestlers I think is allowed to stay retired but come back when the time is right for a wrestlemania. Even if its just an appearance. The man is the reason I got in to wrestling, the first match I ever watched was undertaker versus randy orton in hell in a cell at armageddon. Nowadays, the business doesn't appease to me as much and I had been training in wrestling for a few years as a teenager but gave up and don't think I'll go back to it. Undertaker will be greatly missed and always appreciated.
Verne Gagne, Magnum T.A, Nikita Koloff, Tully Blanchard... I don’t count the match Blanchard had at the Heroes of Wrestling PPV because... well because.
I remember a show that they did on RAW I believe in England and she kind of dropped the Layla bit for a second to let her British side ooze out and got a pop
Why doesn't the unsanctioned match with Christian count? There were entrances, a ref, Christian taking shots to the head, and a three count. Sounds like a match to me.
Shawn Michaels would've been on this list had he not done that atrocious match in Saudi. His WM match vs Undertaker was the greatest retirement match he could've asked for.
Warrior last match wasn't in Italy, it was in Madrid, Spain. Also, fun fact, the match itself is so bad that u can hear the people chant "Manos arriba, esto es un atraco" which means "Hands up, this is a robbery", It's a classical spanish chant that we do when we feel like we are being robbed like in sports or something like that (In this case for the people that paid the tickets).
I think you guys gotta update your list here since almost half the people on this list returned in some capacity. Watching this in April 2022 makes this list age like milk.
