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1[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere This description's not ready]], [[Wrestling/HulkHogan brother]]!
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3Yes, ProfessionalWrestling is predetermined. There is no denying that, but it comes with quite a few advantages. For example, [[LongRunners pretty long careers]]. ([[CareerEndingInjury In]] [[DentedIron some]] [[AnyoneCanDie cases]].) The planned structure of matches allows wrestlers to still keep going in their 40s, 50s or even longer,[[note]]Keep in mind that in most other forms of athletics, a professional athlete is considered old at 35![[/note]] making wrestlers living LongRunners. Overlong careers are mostly a result of wrestling being the only income for most wrestlers, either because they don't have anything waiting for them after wrestling or for other reasons, such as the love they have for the profession. Advancements in medical technology are also allowing many wrestlers to continue performing even after acquiring injuries that would have been deemed [[CareerEndingInjury career-ending]] just a decade ago. Another reason wrestlers tend to wrestle well beyond their 30s is that many peak in their 30s, sometimes even early 40s, because WrestlingPsychology is at least as important as the physical aspect of wrestling, and it takes many wrestlers years to fully grasp the psychology of the business. Competitive athletes, by contrast, often peak in their 20s because that's when they reach the peak of their physical fitness while also acquiring the mental aspect of their respective sports.
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5[[BrokenBase Fans are fighting over this theme constantly]]. Some people think that the old guard only take up space and TV time that could be used for younger wrestlers, while other fans enjoy the nostalgia and think that the oldies still have their place on the show and are not really to blame for younger wrestlers not being used (of course both of those things can be true at once.) Fan reactions will also depend on how much talent and effort the wrestler will still put in the ring (i.e. Wrestling/RicFlair still pulled a lot of respect for his ring-work late into his career while others are often lambasted for still maintaining main event space despite a now deeply limited ring effort, such as Wrestling/{{Batista}} during his 2014 return.) Older wrestlers who go out of their way to make the young talent look good and help them get ahead in the business also tend to be better-regarded by fans than those who use their established fame to insist on being booked to beat the new talent.
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7In order for a wrestler to qualify as a Ring Oldie, they must have been an active competitor until they were at least 45 years old.
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9!!Known Ring oldies (listed alphabetically, don't have the patience to keep up with [[TenMinuteRetirement retirements]]):
10* Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher (73 years old, retired.)
11* {{Wrestling/Abyss}} (45 years old)
12* [[Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen Ole Anderson]] (47 years old when he retired in 1990.)
13* Wrestling/KurtAngle (50 at the time of his retirement match at [=WrestleMania=] 35) [[note]] Angle also started much later than most of the people on this list, having had a hugely successful amateur career, in addition to being reluctant to get involved with professional wrestling.[[/note]]
14* Las Monjas Asesinas: Lola González and Vicky Carranza, acting as a pareja on the Mexican independent circuit at 55 apiece. González kept it up till 59.
15* Atlantis, wrestling in Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'s main event at 53, in response to fan request.
16* "Bullet" Bob Armstrong (79 years old during his final match).
17* Wrestling/TheBarbarian is 61 and still competes.
18* Baron Von Raschke (55 years old, retired after a 30-year career in 1996.)
19* Wrestling/{{Batista}} was 45 during his 2014 run and 50 for his 2019 retirement match with Triple H.
20* Wrestling/TheBigShow (50 years old)
21* Nick Bockwinkel (58 years old during his final match in 1993, retired from full-time wrestling in 1987.)
22* The Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} started training to wrestle at age ''forty'' and is still working occasional indy dates into his fifties.
23* Wrestling/BookerT and brother Stevie Ray wrestled one last match as Harlem Heat in Booker's Reality of Wrestling promotion in February 2015. Both men were 49 and 56 respectively. Booker still breaks out the Spinaroonie occasionally, last wrestling at 57 in the 2023 ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble''.
24* El Canek, IWL Independent Heavyweight Champion at 62.
25* Dos Caras still wrestles at 67.
26* Wrestling/{{Christian}} initially retired in 2014 at 41 due to concussion-related issues. He would return to the ring in 2021 at 47.
27* Wrestling/TheCrusher (retired in 1989, age 63)
28* Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels (53 years old) and is still doing '''THE BEST MOONSAULT EVER'''
29* Disco Inferno (51 years old, semi-retired)
30* Wrestling/TommyDreamer (48 years old and still hardcore)
31* [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]] (65 years old; semi-retired)
32* Bill Dundee debuted in 1962 and still occasionally wrestles in 2019 at 75.
33* Bobby Eaton last wrestled in 2015 at age 57, passing away in 2021.
34* Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} was forced to retire at 37 due to a serious neck injury, but he returned at 46 in the 2020 Royal Rumble match, and won the 2021 Royal Rumble match before going to AEW at the age of 50.
35* El Dinámico, wrestling in the main event of Italian Wrestling Superstar at 50.
36* Wrestling/ElSanto (was 64 at his last match (47-year run), dying 2 years later)
37* Wrestling/SidEudy: Wrestled his final match in 2017, at age 58.
38* Finlay (56 years old. Seems to have retired for good as of 2018.)
39* Wrestling/RicFlair (was 59 at his last match in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, though he had a short run in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and various indie leagues until the age of 63). Officially announced his retirement in December 2012, citing Jerry Lawler (who's the same age as him) having heart attack a few months earlier as a galvanizing event driving home the dangers of even a physically fit man wrestling at his age. However, he came out of retirement after a decade to wrestle a promoted “final” match at 73 in 2022.
40* Wrestling/MickFoley made his final in-ring appearance in the 2012 Wrestling/RoyalRumble at 46 years old. He quietly retired soon after when his doctors informed him that he can never wrestle again.
41* Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara is 66 and still wrestles.
42* Wrestling/JimFullington (58 years old, still caning people on the indy circuit) %% born June 16, 1963
43* Wrestling/DoryFunkJr (79 years old)
44* Wrestling/TerryFunk (73 years old) Funk's tendency to [[TenMinuteRetirement briefly retire]] became something of a RunningGag among wrestling fans. Father Time finally caught up with the Funker; he passed away in 2023 at 79, nearly 6 years after his final match.
45* Verne Gagne (officially retired at 58, but worked special matches until he was 62)
46* Ron Garvin (70 years old as of his last match in 2014, wrestled part-time from 1993 on.)
47* Wrestling/GiantHaystacks last wrestled at 49 before dying a little over two years later of cancer.
48* Wrestling/{{Glacier}} 55 years old, still works indy shows.
49* Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} was thought to have wrestled his final match in 2004 at the age of 37, but announced in 2016 that he'd be coming out of retirement to have a final run that extended beyond his 50th birthday. He's since been brought back several times to wrestle for big events.
50* Wrestling/{{Goldust}} (51 years old) is still going strong, wrestling his younger brother Wrestling/{{Cody|Rhodes}} at AEW's '' Double or Nothing'' pay-per-view in 2020.
51* Mike Graham (60 years old at the time of his final match in 2012, wrestled sparingly after the early 90s.)
52* Wrestling/TheGreatKhali (45 years old)
53* Chavo Guerrero Sr. (67 years old at the time of his last match; he died a few months later at 68.)
54* Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr (50 years old)
55* Wrestling/BillyGunn is still working the occasional match at 60, and claimed the AEW trios title alongside Wrestling/TheAcclaimed barely two months before reaching that age. His longtime tag partner, Wrestling/RoadDogg, barely qualifies at 47. %% Billy: Born November 1, 1963
56* Wrestling/ScottHall: Retired in 2010 at the age of 51.
57* Although Wrestling/BretHart retired in 2000, he made a brief return to the ring ten years later after reconciling with WWE, wrestling his final match at 53 years old (though the term "wrestling" is used loosely. Because of lingering issues with repeated concussions and a stroke suffered after his retirement, the most he could do was throw punches and swing folding chairs without being able to take bumps).
58* Gran Hamada, wrestling alongside his students at age 67.
59* Wrestling/{{Matt|Hardy}} and Wrestling/JeffHardy are still active competitors at the ages of 49 and 46, respectively, having started wrestling since they were teenagers.
60* Wrestling/MarkHenry (45 years old during his final match, officially retired the following year)
61* Wrestling/HulkHogan (58 years old during his final match in TNA. [[https://www.screengeek.net/2020/01/07/hulk-hogan-new-look-wrestlemania-one-more-match/ Still attempting to come back for one final match as late as 2020.]])
62* Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan: (66 years old, still wrestles occasionally)
63* Malia Hosaka (believed to be semi-retired in 2012, the Cauliflower Alley Club mistakenly announced her as a recipient for an award reserved for retired wrestlers, but she could be found coming up with evermore acrobatic([[EasilyDistractedReferee and illegal]]) jack knife pins as late as 2019 (at age 49).
64* Wrestling/{{Ivory}} (Retired at 45, returned at 56 to compete at WWE's first Evolution PPV; she would return four years later to compete in the 2022 Royal Rumble match.)
65* Wrestling/TheIronSheik (68 at the time of his final match in 2010)
66* Chigusa Nagayo became Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1's first Blast Queen champion at age 53. Proved her mettle inside and outside the ring when she received a letter of appreciation from [[https://twitter.com/shupromobile/status/1074605002948132864 the Sapporo police]] after standing up to a man attacking his wife on a parking deck at age 54.
67* Wrestling/NewJack ("retired" at 50, but worked a few special matches until shortly before his death at 58 in 2021)
68* Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} (53 years old; semi-retired)
69* Wrestling/MartyJannetty was 58 as of his last match in 2018.
70* Wrestling/JeffJarrett (56 years old and still smashing guitars over people's heads; also took the pinfall in Ric Flair's "Last Match" shortly after turning 55) %% born July 14, 1967
71* Wrestling/ChrisJericho (turned 53 in November 2023, and the inaugural [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] world champion)
72* Gypsy Joe took part in the World Legend Revival series of SMASH at 76.
73* Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger (born in November 1964) had his retirement match on the second night of NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 14 in January 2020 at 55.
74* Wrestling/LeilaniKai, challenging for title belts in Florida at 57.
75* Wrestling/{{Kamala}} (60 years old as of his final match in 2010; he was forced to retire due to health problems)
76* Wrestling/{{Kane}} (56 years old, semi-retired. He's probably working a very limited schedule from here on, as he was elected mayor of Knox County, Tennessee[[note]]Not of the city of Knoxville... although the county government is the exclusive provider of some services, including in Knoxville.[[/note]] in 2018, and was reelected in 2022.) %% born April 26, 1967
77* Wrestling/RonKillings (52 years old)
78* Wrestling/AjaKong (51 years old)
79* Wrestling/LaParka (turned 58 in November 2023 and still very much active in AAA and the American indy circuit. The other man who used the La Parka gimmick last wrestled at 53.) %% born November 14, 1965
80* [[Wrestling/JerryLawler Jerry "The King" Lawler]] (72 years old at his most recent match against Wrestling/ScottSteiner in March 2022). Was thought to have wrestled his final match in September 2012, after which he suffered a near-fatal heart attack at the announcer table and spent over two months in recovery... but was later medically cleared to return to wrestling, and still worked occasional indy shows even after a mild stroke in 2018. He had a second and more severe stroke in February 2023. Before the second stroke, Lawler had worked at least once every calendar year since his debut, meaning his career spans an impressive 53 years. %% born November 29, 1949
81* Wrestling/{{Lita}} came out of retirement in 2022, a few months before turning 47.
82* Wrestling/SteveLombardi (58. Although he officially retired from full-time competition in 1998, he still does matches on the indy circuit several times a year.)
83* Wrestling/LexLuger (48 at the time of his last match in 2006; forced to retire due to severe health problems)
84* Dr. Luther (55 years old, still wrestling in All Elite Wrestling, though in 2024 he's now mainly serving as "valet" to "Timeless" Wrestling/ToniStorm) %% born October 30, 1968
85* Wrestling/JerryLynn (49 years old, retired in 2013.)
86* Wrestling/SherriMartel wrestled her final match in 2005 at the age of 46.
87* Mil Máscaras wrestled his final match in February 2019 at age 76. %% born July 15, 1942
88* Wrestling/DumpMatsumoto, making rounds on the Japanese independent circuit at 57.
89* Wrestling/{{Chief Wahoo McDaniel}} had his first matches in 1961 and his last in 1996 at 57.
90* Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon is still wrestling part-time at age 53. %% born January 15, 1970
91* His father Wrestling/VinceMcMahon also wrestled on occasion, last doing so at [=WrestleMania=] 38 in 2022 at the age of 76. It should be noted that Vince ''started'' his in-ring career as a ring oldie, having wrestled his first match against Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin at 52.
92* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels mostly avoided this. He retired in 2010 just before his 45th birthday, but he did returned in 2018 for an one-off at the age 53 in WWE's Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia. He has not stepped into the ring again since, preferring to stay retired and helping to build new talent in ''Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}'' as its head of creative instead.
93* Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah had her last match in WWE at 81. Her last singles match was at 80.
94* [[Wrestling/KeijiMutoh The Great Muta]] worked his retirement match at age 60 in February 2023. %% born December 23, 1962
95* Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr (49 years old, career spans over thirty years.) %% born December 11, 1974
96* Wrestling/KevinNash (59 during his last match in 2018. He retired in 2020 per a post on Twitter.)
97* Negro Navarro, defending the trios titles of IWRG alongside his sons at 58.
98* Wrestling/JimNeidhart: Semi-retired in 1999 at age 44, though he continued to make occasional appearances, wrestling his final match in 2016 at age 61.
99* Atsushi Onita ended his career in a [[GimmickMatches barbed wire board tornado street fight bunkhouse brawl]] at age 60 after [[GarbageWrestler the barbed wire baseball bat exploding knee pad]] lumber jack match two days beforehand failed to finish him off.
100* Wrestling/PaulOrndorff retired from full-time wrestling at 46 in 1995 due to injuries. He had a couple of matches after his official retirement, including a notable tag match at Fall Brawl 2000 at the age of 50.
101* [[Wrestling/BobOrtonJr "Cowboy" Bob Orton]] (54 years old when he teamed with his son Wrestling/{{Randy|Orton}}. He also occasionally wrestles, mainly at legends shows, at the age of 70.)
102* Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage started wrestling[[note]] Page had a very brief brush with becoming a wrestler in the late 70s, but he ultimately decided not to pursue it after injuring his knee. He also worked as a manager in his late 20s, before becoming a full-time wrestler.[[/note]] at 35, so he was pretty old when he started. Page retired from full-time wrestling in 2006 at 50, but has come out of retirement a few times, most notably in the 2015 Royal Rumble match at 58 years old, the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at [=WrestleMania=] 32, two days before his 60th birthday, and for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling at 63, which he has claimed was the final match he'll ever do.
103* Wrestling/RoddyPiper (was 57 during his last match, dying 4 years later)
104* Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter (46 years old, initially announced he has wrestled his final WWE match and intends to retire completely very soon. He would still continue wrestling a couple of years later.)
105* Wrestling/{{Psicosis}} (48 years old and still wrestling)
106* Psicosis II is 52 and still wrestles.
107* Wrestling/HarleyRace (47 years old when he retired in 1990.)
108* {{Wrestling/Raven}} (58 years old, semi-retired.)
109* Butch Reed (57 years old, last wrestled in 2011.)
110* Wrestling/DustyRhodes wrestled his last match in 2010 at the age of 64. It was a six-man tag with his sons.
111* Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} (56 years old, semi-retired, though he makes occasional appearances)
112* Wrestling/TheRockNRollExpress are still wrestling and training at 61 and 63 respectively.
113* Wrestling/{{Sabu}} announced his retirement in November 2021, about a month shy of his 57th birthday.
114* Johnny Saint (only semi-retired as of 2011, aged 70), in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} managed multiple 'this is awesome' and 'we love wrestling' chants. Fellow Brit Johnny Kidd was only 55 in the same weekend. Saint finally retired for good as an in-ring performer in 2015 at age 74, but even after that was a trainer, and at age 81 was an authority figure for NXT UK before it went on hiatus in September 2022. %% born June 29, 1941
115* Wrestling/MikeRotunda: (45-46 years old when he retired in 2004, wrestled one last time at RAW's 15th anniversary in 2007 at age 49)
116* Wrestling/BrunoSammartino: (52 years old upon his last match in 1987).
117* Wrestling/TitoSantana: Born in 1953; last worked a full-time schedule at age 43, but continues to work occasional shows, both in the indies and Wrestling/{{AAA}}, as of this writing (February 2024).
118* Wrestling/RandySavage wrestled his final match in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] at the age of 52. His brother Wrestling/LannyPoffo still occasionally wrestled into his sixties. Their father, Angelo, wrestled his final match at 59.
119* Wrestling/DanSevern retired from MMA at the age of 54 but still competes in pro wrestling despite saying once that pro wrestling has given him more injuries that MMA.
120* Wrestling/TheBushwhackers. Born in 1944, Butch retired in 2001 following a neck injury. He came out of retirement in 2018 at the age of 73 for one last tour with Luke, and passed away in 2023. Luke, born in 1947, continues to appear in the occasional indie match even to this day, giving him an incredible seven decade career as an active wrestler.
121* El Sicodélico doing tercias matches at 71.
122* Wrestling/SgtSlaughter (65 years old, seems to have retired for good in 2014)
123* Gene Snitsky (48, announced his impending retirement in 2018)
124* Wrestling/AlSnow (60 years old) works matches in TNA now and then and in the indies, though he abused steroids heavily in 2014 and thus physically doesn't look his age anymore. Also runs a wrestling school.
125* [[Wrestling/JimmySnuka Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka]] (wrestled his last match at 72 years old)
126* George South (57 years old)
127* Wrestling/RickySteamboat looked like he was going to miss out, first retiring in 1994 at the age of 41, but he made an impressive return run in WWE 15 years later in 2009, feuding with Chris Jericho. He would return to the ring one more time 13 years later in 2022 at the age of 69, teaming up with [[Wrestling/{{FTR}}} to face Wrestling/JayLethal, Nick Aldis and Brock Anderson.
128* [[Wrestling/GeorgeSteele George "The Animal" Steele]] was 61 when he had his last match in WWE in 1999. He had his final match in 2000 at 63.
129* Wrestling/ScottSteiner (61 and still wrestling at indy shows. His brother Rick is mostly retired but still works occasional legends and indy matches at 62.) %% Scott: born July 29, 1962; Rick: born March 9, 1961
130* Wrestling/{{Sting}} was thought to have wrestled his last match in September of 2015 at 56 years old, officially retiring in April of the following year due to cervical spinal stenosis. However, he made his shocking debut for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling in December of 2020 at the age of 61, returning to the ring three months later after turning 62. He wrestled his final match at AEW Revolution 2024, a few weeks before his 65th birthday.
131* Wrestling/TrishStratus retired from full-time wrestling in 2006 at the age of 30, but has been semi-active since, most recently teaming up with Becky Lynch and former rival Lita to face Damage CTRL (Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky) at [=WrestleMania=] 39. 2023 at age 47, a run that eventually expanded into the summer with a feud with Becky.
132* Wrestling/KevinSullivan (69 years old, career began in 1970 and was still occasionally working matches in 2019.)
133* Super Delfin, touring through Asia at 50.
134* Pantera Sureña seemed to have wound down her career as a luchadora at 52.
135* Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, affectionately nicknamed "Murder Grandpa", is still a menace in the ring at 55 (as of 2023).
136* Wrestling/GenichiroTenryu, at 65 lost his retirement match to then-28-year-old Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada.
137* Wrestling/LouThesz (officially retired at 63, worked occasional special events until age 74, when he had a retirement match against student Masahiro Chono. Chono himself retired in 2023 at age 59, with his last match coming against Wrestling/KeijiMutoh, aka The Great Muta, who was 60 and also retired after the match.)
138* Fray Tormenta (66 when he wrestled his last match, but had been semi-retired since 56. Still serves as a Roman Catholic priest.)
139* Wrestling/TripleH: Worked what proved to be his last match in January 2021 at the age of 51. He announced his in-ring retirement in March 2022, having had a defibrillator implanted in his chest several months earlier after a bout with viral pneumonia led to near-fatal heart damage. Even before his final match, he had been semi-retired since 2010 due to his duties as head of Talent Relations and eventual successor to the WWE empire.
140* [[Wrestling/BrodusClay Brodus Clay/Tyrus]] wrestled his last match at age 50 in 2023, losing the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/{{EC3}} with a retirement stipulation. While wrestling retirements tend not to stick, Tyrus strongly implied in more than one later interview that his was most likely real.
141* Wrestling/UltimateWarrior (49 years old as of his last match, with independent federation Nu-Wrestling Evolution (NWE))
142* Wrestling/UltimoDragon, teaming with El Dinámico, among others also at 51.
143* Wrestling/TheUndertaker (55 years old, retired in 2020.)
144* "Butcher" Vachon (77 years old)
145* Jimmy Valiant (77 years old)
146* Johnny Valiant (59 years old during his final match, wrestled infrequently after his forties.)
147* Wrestling/BigVanVader wrestled occasional matches until he was 61, dying two years later.
148* Wrestling/GregValentine (66 years old; semi-retired)
149* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria/Tara]] (retired from full-time wrestling in 2019 at 48 years old. She returned for the 2021 Women's Royal Rumble a few months shy of her fiftieth birthday). She would make another return a couple years later on Impact as Gisele Shaw's mystery partner.
150* Fritz Wrestling/{{Von Erich|Family}} worked his final match in 1986 at age 57. He would sadly outlive five of his six sons; the one survivor, Kevin, would work ''his'' final match, a tag team alongside his sons Ross and Marshall, in 2017 at age 60.
151* Wrestling/SeanWaltman initially retired at age 47 in 2019; he would then come back three years later to wrestle a couple of matches in 2022.
152* Jaguar Yokota, touring as a singles wrestler and one half of Diana's tag team champions at 54.
153* Wrestling/ExoticAdrianStreet retired at age 69 not long after [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] Wrestle Birmingham, where he was Heavyweight Champion of Alabama, shutdown.
154* Wrestling/MaeYoung (claimed to have wrestled across ''nine decades'', although this is dubious -- evidence suggests she first wrestled pro in 1941, not 1939 as she claimed, and as we'll see below, it's also doubtful whether her sole match in the 2010s counts. She said she wanted to wrestle against Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon on her 100th birthday — unfortunately, she died in January 2014 at 90.)
155** Her last "match" deserves a disclaimer. It took place during the old school retro edition of Raw and was a falls count anywhere, no-DQ match against Wrestling/{{LayCool}}. She was flanked by a pair of other divas who helped her walk up and down the aisle, she never had to climb the stairs to get to the ring (thus, "falls count anywhere"), and all the quote-unquote ring work was done by pretty much the entire women's roster on her behalf. And at the end, she count not even get to her knees to make the pin, instead making the pin while standing with a foot on her opponent's chest. Still, give credit where credit is due.
156** It should also be noted that she was still taking bumps and being put through tables well into her 70s.
157* [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=1869&gimmick=Lord+Zoltan Lord Zoltan]] (59 years old) is in semi-retirement, but still wrestles on approximately a monthly basis with the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance, including the annual [=DeafFest=] match that he originated.
158* Larry Zbyszko wrestled his final match in 2015 at the age of 63.
159* Scotty 2 Hotty would wrestle a match in 2022 at the age of 48.
160* Wrestling/ArnAnderson despite retiring at 43 in 2000 would sporadically bust out his signature spinebuster every now and then.
161* Wrestling/BobbyFish (48 years old in 2023)
162* Wrestling/BobbyRoode (48 years old in 2023, semi-retired)
163* Wrestling/BobbyLashley (48 years old in 2023)
164* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin would come out of a 19-year retirement at age 57 to face Wrestling/KevinOwens at Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 38.
165* Wrestling/AJStyles (turned 47 in 2023)
166* Wrestling/TooColdScorpio is still wrestling at 56
167* Wrestling/BrockLesnar (46 as of 2023, has yet to slow down in the ring probably due to his limited schedule).
168* Jamie Noble barely made it at 45, coming out of retirement to wrestle one more match teaming up with Braun Strowman, Butch and Ridge Holland to defeat the Bloodline (Jimmy, Jey, Solo and Sami).
169* Emi Sakura (46 as of 2022)
170* Wrestling/JohnCena turned 46 in 2023, he would team up with Kevin Owens to defeat Sami and Roman on the last Smackdown of 2022 and had a small run in 2023.
171* Mike Jackson who is still wrestling at 73.
172* Lance Archer is an active competitor at 46.
173* Wrestling/{{Tamina|Snuka}} (turned 46 in 2023)
174* Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} (turned 45 in 2023)
175* Wrestling/CMPunk (turned 45 in 2023)

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