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10 WWE Legends You Won't Believe Are Still Wrestling
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03/02/2025
And you thought Ric Flair was too old for this s***...
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00:00
Do you know what phrase I hate?
00:02
That guy should retire.
00:04
I mean, when you do hang them up, it's for a long-ass time.
00:07
I get it's professional wrestling and everybody comes back, but still.
00:10
That is why I love wrestlers who, as long as they're healthy, just keep going,
00:13
because clearly they have a passion for this damn thing.
00:16
Sometimes I think we need to stand up and celebrate it.
00:19
Let's do that right now.
00:20
Do you want to see some crazy names who are still doing the grappling?
00:23
I hope so. Otherwise, why are you here?
00:25
My name is Simon Miller. Please do subscribe.
00:27
And here's 10 legends that are still going at it.
00:30
Number 10, The Warlord.
00:32
I mean, how on earth?
00:33
When I first got into wrestling years and years ago,
00:35
it felt like The Warlord was wrapping up.
00:37
And now here we are, and he's still putting on his boots.
00:40
He's also 61 years old, and during his career,
00:42
was involved in not one, but two really serious car accidents.
00:46
This guy must be made of steel.
00:48
As far as I can see, though, he's definitely been working up to the 1st of July, 2023,
00:52
because he was in a tag team match against the Rock and Roll Express.
00:56
And I'll tell you right now, I actually want to see it.
00:58
Now, of course, they only did a five-minute scrap,
01:00
but I'm nowhere near how old these guys are,
01:03
and sometimes I can't even get out of bed.
01:05
Round of applause.
01:06
Just for some extra fun trivia as well,
01:08
at one point during his life, The Warlord was a bodyguard for 50 Cent.
01:12
So now you know.
01:13
Number 9, The Barbarian.
01:15
And yes, of course, we do also need to talk about his tag team partner,
01:17
which was The Barbarian,
01:19
which means 35 years later, power and pain are still going.
01:23
Barb is even older at 64,
01:25
and I tell you, this guy always used to be lumped in with the whole,
01:28
man, he's just a big old potato kind of a wrestler.
01:31
It's not true.
01:32
If you go back and watch some of his matches,
01:34
given that he was massive, this dude could go.
01:37
Go and watch the match against the Rockers at WrestleMania 7,
01:39
and all of a sudden you'll start to notice,
01:41
oh my gosh, a lot of the power guys in 2023,
01:45
where they're basing their template on his.
01:47
He did this in WCW as well,
01:49
although World Championship Wrestling never knew what to do with anybody.
01:52
And if we go back to May 2023,
01:54
these two guys also had a match against the Headbangers.
01:58
That's two for two.
02:00
I got to watch it.
02:01
Number 8, Ultimo Dragon.
02:02
Now this isn't a huge surprise,
02:04
because if anybody is going to rewrite the wrestling rule book,
02:06
it'd be this guy.
02:07
Ultimo Dragon was so successful in his pop,
02:09
he basically started the whole belt collector gimmick.
02:12
And the only reason he didn't smash it in WWE or the WWF
02:15
is because Vince McMahon was like,
02:17
well, he's just a cruiserweight,
02:18
and old Vinny doesn't like small dudes.
02:20
The real joy is that at 54 years old,
02:22
he still totally knows what he's doing.
02:24
And while a lot of his matches do go down in Dragon Gate,
02:27
and they're six-man tags,
02:28
when he does get his hand slapped,
02:30
he just does what he needs to do,
02:32
and he's still pretty impressive.
02:34
His chain wrestling is also sublime,
02:36
and honestly, if he's still going at 89 years old,
02:38
I'd be like, yeah, of course he is.
02:40
He's probably never going to retire.
02:42
Number 7, Duke the Dunstan Drozy.
02:44
So let's just talk about it, because we can.
02:46
In the mid-90s, Vince McMahon decided,
02:48
well, I know how to turn business around, pal.
02:50
Let's give everybody a job.
02:52
If somebody was always going to be the garbage man,
02:55
it was Duke Drozy.
02:57
And look, there's nothing wrong with doing that either,
02:59
in real life, but when it comes to wrestling,
03:01
how the flub is this going to help you win a belt?
03:04
And also, you ain't never made of it in WrestleMania.
03:06
The irony today is that I actually think
03:08
if you put this gimmick in the newfound NXT,
03:10
it would work, but yeah,
03:12
back when the World Wrestling Federation
03:14
needed something new, this weren't it.
03:16
It didn't stop Drozy, though, because at 54 years of age,
03:19
he did pop up in that gimmick battle royal
03:21
that MLW did recently, which also had Raven,
03:24
Harry Smith, and Little Guido.
03:26
So I know, you're now doing it too.
03:28
Somebody give me the remote control.
03:30
Number 7, Scott Steiner.
03:32
I mean, are you going to tell him to stop?
03:34
Nope, neither am I.
03:35
Now it is a worry, because mathematical odds
03:37
keep going down all over the place,
03:39
but despite the fact he has suffered some serious injuries,
03:41
Big Papa Pump is still going.
03:43
And we've all seen that TNA viral clip
03:45
that is always popping up online,
03:47
but Steiner did give Scottier old resurgence
03:49
when it came to his matches,
03:51
because in 2019, that led to quite a ridiculous one
03:54
against Hornswoggle.
03:55
As recent as this April, though,
03:57
he worked Richard Cordier,
03:59
mostly because it was in Michigan,
04:01
and I think Steiner could just walk there from his house.
04:03
I really don't think that the Big Booty Daddy
04:05
has ever said that he does want to hang them up either.
04:07
He probably just rings up promoters and goes,
04:10
book me!
04:11
They go, man, we better do it.
04:13
But yeah, he'll go on forever.
04:14
Number 5, Gangrel.
04:15
Seriously, Gangrel's schedule is amazing.
04:17
Like, he's over here in the UK all the time.
04:20
I don't know how he does it.
04:22
At 54, he is still flying as well,
04:24
and man, did he make the most of this vampire gimmick.
04:27
And don't forget, when he was in the World Wrestling Federation,
04:29
this is another guy Vince was like,
04:31
vampire gimmick, I don't get it.
04:33
Well, yeah, it certainly served him for the long haul.
04:35
He is also a super nice guy,
04:37
and if you have seen him working on the UK scene,
04:39
or the Canadian scene, or the US scene,
04:41
he still knows exactly what he's doing.
04:43
He draws a crowd, and he gets a big old pop.
04:46
He really is a genius when it comes to sports entertainment,
04:49
especially knowing that less is more.
04:51
They don't give him enough props.
04:53
Number 4, Hikushi.
04:54
Now, if you are a hardcore fan,
04:56
you probably remember Hikushi's bizarre WWF run,
04:59
when all of a sudden you woke up one day,
05:01
and we put Bret Hart against the man,
05:03
and all of a sudden you were like,
05:05
well, this was what I was waiting for.
05:06
They had some really good matches.
05:08
I mean, it proved that the guy from Japan wasn't just an orso rant.
05:11
Seriously.
05:12
If you watch them now, you can see it.
05:14
Both he and Bret are from the,
05:15
we gotta make it look real, school of thought.
05:18
That's what makes him so damn watchable.
05:20
Real life Ginzaishin Zaki continues to wrestle
05:22
at Mishinoko Pro 2,
05:24
mostly because he bought the thing in 2003.
05:27
So why wouldn't you book yourself on it?
05:29
Thing is, though, he knows how to hold his own,
05:31
because he was one of the guys that faced the Great Muta
05:33
when he was doing his retirement run.
05:35
Look, believe you me, those dudes were specifically picked.
05:39
The man still got it.
05:40
Number 3, Shane Douglas.
05:41
Now, Shane Douglas had two very famous moments
05:44
in his wrestling career.
05:45
The first is when he won the NWA world title
05:47
and threw it on the floor
05:48
and disrespected it at an ECW show.
05:51
And the other is when he got hired by WWF
05:55
and they made him a teacher.
05:57
I mean, come on.
05:58
WCW didn't do much with him either,
05:59
and we've touched on that,
06:00
meaning it was Extreme Championship Wrestling
06:02
where he finally got his due.
06:04
Really?
06:05
This is a guy that's always been underrated
06:07
and deserved a bigger push.
06:08
He's been so smart in his style as well
06:10
that by July 2023,
06:12
he had already worked seven matches this year.
06:14
And the majority were pretty solid.
06:16
That's because Shane can work, Shane can talk,
06:18
and nowadays, he never does anything too crazy.
06:21
So you may be able to argue
06:22
that he just got tied up with the wrong people
06:24
or butted head with the wrong individuals.
06:26
So could he have one last run at the top?
06:29
Never say never.
06:30
Number 2, The Sandman.
06:32
The Sandman actually came out recently during an interview
06:34
because he was asked,
06:35
do you think you'll ever go to AEW?
06:37
I don't know anyone from AEW.
06:39
I am so out of the wrestling bubble.
06:41
It is crazy.
06:42
And yet, because his gimmick was just,
06:43
I'm going to walk to the ring,
06:44
I'm going to drink a beer,
06:45
and I'm going to smack myself in the head
06:47
with a kendo stick.
06:48
Well, he's still able to do it today.
06:50
I mean, back in April, at the age of 60,
06:52
he worked DILF.
06:53
I didn't really know who DILF was,
06:55
so I looked him up.
06:56
Apparently, he's an internet meme wrestler.
06:59
I don't really know what that means.
07:00
As usual, though, the whole story was
07:02
that DILF said bad things about ECW,
07:04
so out came The Sandman and whipped his ass.
07:06
And you go and read his story
07:08
and all the trials and tribulations he went through.
07:10
Kind of sounds like he's doing really well now.
07:13
Makes me warm and fuzzy in my tum-tum.
07:15
Number one, Bob Orton.
07:17
That's right!
07:18
Ratley Orton's dead.
07:19
He's still going.
07:20
Probably still has his arm in the cast.
07:22
Gimmick for life.
07:23
But if we go to July 2023,
07:25
who was having a match at the age of 71?
07:27
Bob Orton.
07:28
I mean, he teamed with Tony Atlas
07:30
for a match in Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling,
07:32
and given that we have talked about Big Tone,
07:35
he should be in here too.
07:36
He's 69.
07:37
Don't do it.
07:38
Orton as well was bumping around the place,
07:40
so you have to give that guy kudos.
07:43
He is definitely somebody's grandad.
07:46
Once again, I ain't nobody's grandad.
07:48
I can barely go to the bathroom.
07:50
So whatever pain he's probably still in,
07:52
he is still able to smash it.
07:54
I think this is really damn cool.
07:56
Take inspiration from this, people.
07:58
If you love something, you have a passion.
08:00
Never give it up, unless it's good for your life
08:02
and it's good for your health.
08:03
Believe in your dreams.
08:05
See you soon.
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