10 Wrestlers Who Returned After Retiring

7. Bret Hart

In 2000, Bret Hart suffered an injury at the hands of Goldberg in a WCW match and nine months later he decided he was unable to continue wrestling going forward.

Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart retired his legendary career and was inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.

It took four more years before Bret Hart returned to the center stage, when he was involved in an angle between himself and Vince McMahon for WrestleMania XXVI.

At that show Hart wrestled his first match since 2000 and defeated the Chairman in a match that was more chair-shots than anything. Truthfully, Hart was never medically cleared to compete. This resulted in Hart taking no bumps in his matches at WrestleMania, Raw, and SummerSlam.

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6. Trish Stratus

Arguably one of the biggest female stars WWE ever had, Trish Stratus retired from in-ring competition at Unforgiven in 2006 by winning the Women’s Title one final time.

Stratus would return for sporadic matches such as when WWE came to Toronto in 2008 and 2009, before returning to compete at WrestleMania XXVII. At the event, she teamed with John Morrison and ‘Jersey Shore’ star Snooki to defeat Dolph Ziggler and LayCool in a very quick match.

Since then Trish Stratus has been put in several matches, including the Royal Rumble and a tag team match at Evolution. Her most recent bout, which she again said was her retirement match, was a loss to Charlotte Flair at SummerSlam 2019.

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5. Mick Foley

Mick Foley retired in 2000, then again in 2004, and once more in 2012.

The former WWF Champion has tried, but just never managed to stay away from the ring. While his retirement match against Triple H in 2000 seemed perfect, Foley was just not done yet.

In 2012 – the same year he competed in the Royal Rumble – Foley, the man that fell off the Cell through an announce table and then through the roof of the cell onto the canvas in the same match, wanted to go one more time against Dean Ambrose.

However, doctors finally told him that it was over.

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