10 WWE Wrestlers That Retired Due To Injury Very Soon

10. Shawn Michaels At the close of the 2000s, Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker had two matches that are considered by many to be two of the greatest WrestleMania matches of all time, but ten years earlier they had a match that for a while ended The Heartbreak Kid’s career.

9. Edge Edge & Christian, The Dudley Boyz and The Hardyz revolutionised tag-team wrestling in the early 2000s by continually raising the bar and raising the stakes in an ever-escalating series of dangerous and daring matches. WrestleMania 2000’s Triangle Ladder Match paved the way for the Tables, Ladders and Chairs at SummerSlam, but it was the following year’s TLC at WrestleMania X-Seven where the three teams perfected the formula.

8. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin

7. Sid Vicious

6. Bret Hart After Bret Hart left WWF following the Montreal Screwjob, he suffered a string of unbelievable tragedies in quick succession that left him both unable and uninterested in having anything to do with wrestling for a number of years.

5. British Bulldog Davey Bo

4. Magnum T.A.

3. Rick Rude It was during a match for the International World Heavyweight Championship against Sting that Rude suffered the injury which would force him into retirement. Although he won the match, he took a over-the-top-rope dive from Sting and hit his back against the raised entrance that surrounded the ring, and the resulting injury led to him vacating the championship and retiring from wrestling.y Smith was incredibly popular as part of the British Bulldogs during heydey of the late-eighties, and ping-ponged back and forth between WWF and WCW a couple of times before landing in WCW in 1998.

2. Hayabusa

1. Droz The injury left Droz a quadriplegic initially, although he later regained some movement in his upper body, and was kept on at WWF as a contributor to both the magazine and website.