10 WWE Legends You Won't Believe Are Still Wrestling

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00:00Do you know what phrase I hate?

00:02That guy should retire.

00:04I mean, when you do hang them up, it's for a long-ass time.

00:07I get it's professional wrestling and everybody comes back, but still.

00:10That is why I love wrestlers who, as long as they're healthy, just keep going,

00:13because clearly they have a passion for this damn thing.

00:16Sometimes I think we need to stand up and celebrate it.

00:19Let's do that right now.

00:20Do you want to see some crazy names who are still doing the grappling?

00:23I hope so. Otherwise, why are you here?

00:25My name is Simon Miller. Please do subscribe.

00:27And here's 10 legends that are still going at it.

00:30Number 10, The Warlord.

00:32I mean, how on earth?

00:33When I first got into wrestling years and years ago,

00:35it felt like The Warlord was wrapping up.

00:37And now here we are, and he's still putting on his boots.

00:40He's also 61 years old, and during his career,

00:42was involved in not one, but two really serious car accidents.

00:46This guy must be made of steel.

00:48As far as I can see, though, he's definitely been working up to the 1st of July, 2023,

00:52because he was in a tag team match against the Rock and Roll Express.

00:56And I'll tell you right now, I actually want to see it.

00:58Now, of course, they only did a five-minute scrap,

01:00but I'm nowhere near how old these guys are,

01:03and sometimes I can't even get out of bed.

01:05Round of applause.

01:06Just for some extra fun trivia as well,

01:08at one point during his life, The Warlord was a bodyguard for 50 Cent.

01:12So now you know.

01:13Number 9, The Barbarian.

01:15And yes, of course, we do also need to talk about his tag team partner,

01:17which was The Barbarian,

01:19which means 35 years later, power and pain are still going.

01:23Barb is even older at 64,

01:25and I tell you, this guy always used to be lumped in with the whole,

01:28man, he's just a big old potato kind of a wrestler.

01:31It's not true.

01:32If you go back and watch some of his matches,

01:34given that he was massive, this dude could go.

01:37Go and watch the match against the Rockers at WrestleMania 7,

01:39and all of a sudden you'll start to notice,

01:41oh my gosh, a lot of the power guys in 2023,

01:45where they're basing their template on his.

01:47He did this in WCW as well,

01:49although World Championship Wrestling never knew what to do with anybody.

01:52And if we go back to May 2023,

01:54these two guys also had a match against the Headbangers.

01:58That's two for two.

02:00I got to watch it.

02:01Number 8, Ultimo Dragon.

02:02Now this isn't a huge surprise,

02:04because if anybody is going to rewrite the wrestling rule book,

02:06it'd be this guy.

02:07Ultimo Dragon was so successful in his pop,

02:09he basically started the whole belt collector gimmick.

02:12And the only reason he didn't smash it in WWE or the WWF

02:15is because Vince McMahon was like,

02:17well, he's just a cruiserweight,

02:18and old Vinny doesn't like small dudes.

02:20The real joy is that at 54 years old,

02:22he still totally knows what he's doing.

02:24And while a lot of his matches do go down in Dragon Gate,

02:27and they're six-man tags,

02:28when he does get his hand slapped,

02:30he just does what he needs to do,

02:32and he's still pretty impressive.

02:34His chain wrestling is also sublime,

02:36and honestly, if he's still going at 89 years old,

02:38I'd be like, yeah, of course he is.

02:40He's probably never going to retire.

02:42Number 7, Duke the Dunstan Drozy.

02:44So let's just talk about it, because we can.

02:46In the mid-90s, Vince McMahon decided,

02:48well, I know how to turn business around, pal.

02:50Let's give everybody a job.

02:52If somebody was always going to be the garbage man,

02:55it was Duke Drozy.

02:57And look, there's nothing wrong with doing that either,

02:59in real life, but when it comes to wrestling,

03:01how the flub is this going to help you win a belt?

03:04And also, you ain't never made of it in WrestleMania.

03:06The irony today is that I actually think

03:08if you put this gimmick in the newfound NXT,

03:10it would work, but yeah,

03:12back when the World Wrestling Federation

03:14needed something new, this weren't it.

03:16It didn't stop Drozy, though, because at 54 years of age,

03:19he did pop up in that gimmick battle royal

03:21that MLW did recently, which also had Raven,

03:24Harry Smith, and Little Guido.

03:26So I know, you're now doing it too.

03:28Somebody give me the remote control.

03:30Number 7, Scott Steiner.

03:32I mean, are you going to tell him to stop?

03:34Nope, neither am I.

03:35Now it is a worry, because mathematical odds

03:37keep going down all over the place,

03:39but despite the fact he has suffered some serious injuries,

03:41Big Papa Pump is still going.

03:43And we've all seen that TNA viral clip

03:45that is always popping up online,

03:47but Steiner did give Scottier old resurgence

03:49when it came to his matches,

03:51because in 2019, that led to quite a ridiculous one

03:54against Hornswoggle.

03:55As recent as this April, though,

03:57he worked Richard Cordier,

03:59mostly because it was in Michigan,

04:01and I think Steiner could just walk there from his house.

04:03I really don't think that the Big Booty Daddy

04:05has ever said that he does want to hang them up either.

04:07He probably just rings up promoters and goes,

04:10book me!

04:11They go, man, we better do it.

04:13But yeah, he'll go on forever.

04:14Number 5, Gangrel.

04:15Seriously, Gangrel's schedule is amazing.

04:17Like, he's over here in the UK all the time.

04:20I don't know how he does it.

04:22At 54, he is still flying as well,

04:24and man, did he make the most of this vampire gimmick.

04:27And don't forget, when he was in the World Wrestling Federation,

04:29this is another guy Vince was like,

04:31vampire gimmick, I don't get it.

04:33Well, yeah, it certainly served him for the long haul.

04:35He is also a super nice guy,

04:37and if you have seen him working on the UK scene,

04:39or the Canadian scene, or the US scene,

04:41he still knows exactly what he's doing.

04:43He draws a crowd, and he gets a big old pop.

04:46He really is a genius when it comes to sports entertainment,

04:49especially knowing that less is more.

04:51They don't give him enough props.

04:53Number 4, Hikushi.

04:54Now, if you are a hardcore fan,

04:56you probably remember Hikushi's bizarre WWF run,

04:59when all of a sudden you woke up one day,

05:01and we put Bret Hart against the man,

05:03and all of a sudden you were like,

05:05well, this was what I was waiting for.

05:06They had some really good matches.

05:08I mean, it proved that the guy from Japan wasn't just an orso rant.

05:11Seriously.

05:12If you watch them now, you can see it.

05:14Both he and Bret are from the,

05:15we gotta make it look real, school of thought.

05:18That's what makes him so damn watchable.

05:20Real life Ginzaishin Zaki continues to wrestle

05:22at Mishinoko Pro 2,

05:24mostly because he bought the thing in 2003.

05:27So why wouldn't you book yourself on it?

05:29Thing is, though, he knows how to hold his own,

05:31because he was one of the guys that faced the Great Muta

05:33when he was doing his retirement run.

05:35Look, believe you me, those dudes were specifically picked.

05:39The man still got it.

05:40Number 3, Shane Douglas.

05:41Now, Shane Douglas had two very famous moments

05:44in his wrestling career.

05:45The first is when he won the NWA world title

05:47and threw it on the floor

05:48and disrespected it at an ECW show.

05:51And the other is when he got hired by WWF

05:55and they made him a teacher.

05:57I mean, come on.

05:58WCW didn't do much with him either,

05:59and we've touched on that,

06:00meaning it was Extreme Championship Wrestling

06:02where he finally got his due.

06:04Really?

06:05This is a guy that's always been underrated

06:07and deserved a bigger push.

06:08He's been so smart in his style as well

06:10that by July 2023,

06:12he had already worked seven matches this year.

06:14And the majority were pretty solid.

06:16That's because Shane can work, Shane can talk,

06:18and nowadays, he never does anything too crazy.

06:21So you may be able to argue

06:22that he just got tied up with the wrong people

06:24or butted head with the wrong individuals.

06:26So could he have one last run at the top?

06:29Never say never.

06:30Number 2, The Sandman.

06:32The Sandman actually came out recently during an interview

06:34because he was asked,

06:35do you think you'll ever go to AEW?

06:37I don't know anyone from AEW.

06:39I am so out of the wrestling bubble.

06:41It is crazy.

06:42And yet, because his gimmick was just,

06:43I'm going to walk to the ring,

06:44I'm going to drink a beer,

06:45and I'm going to smack myself in the head

06:47with a kendo stick.

06:48Well, he's still able to do it today.

06:50I mean, back in April, at the age of 60,

06:52he worked DILF.

06:53I didn't really know who DILF was,

06:55so I looked him up.

06:56Apparently, he's an internet meme wrestler.

06:59I don't really know what that means.

07:00As usual, though, the whole story was

07:02that DILF said bad things about ECW,

07:04so out came The Sandman and whipped his ass.

07:06And you go and read his story

07:08and all the trials and tribulations he went through.

07:10Kind of sounds like he's doing really well now.

07:13Makes me warm and fuzzy in my tum-tum.

07:15Number one, Bob Orton.

07:17That's right!

07:18Ratley Orton's dead.

07:19He's still going.

07:20Probably still has his arm in the cast.

07:22Gimmick for life.

07:23But if we go to July 2023,

07:25who was having a match at the age of 71?

07:27Bob Orton.

07:28I mean, he teamed with Tony Atlas

07:30for a match in Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling,

07:32and given that we have talked about Big Tone,

07:35he should be in here too.

07:36He's 69.

07:37Don't do it.

07:38Orton as well was bumping around the place,

07:40so you have to give that guy kudos.

07:43He is definitely somebody's grandad.

07:46Once again, I ain't nobody's grandad.

07:48I can barely go to the bathroom.

07:50So whatever pain he's probably still in,

07:52he is still able to smash it.

07:54I think this is really damn cool.

07:56Take inspiration from this, people.

07:58If you love something, you have a passion.

08:00Never give it up, unless it's good for your life

08:02and it's good for your health.

08:03Believe in your dreams.

08:05See you soon.

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