Retired professional wrestler and former two times WWE Women’s champion Michelle McCool who is also a former two times WWE Divas champion recently looked back at retiring from Professional wrestling in 2011 and revealed why she made this decision.
Michelle McCool started her professional wrestling career back in 2004 when she participated in the first ever WWE Diva Search competition. Even though she was eliminated from the competition but she earned a 3 year deal from WWE spoon after getting eliminated from the competition.
Michelle McCool Discusses Her Decision To Retire In 2011
She started working as a wrestler in WWE and soon she became pretty successful in the promotion. She had a short five year career in WWE where she managed two win to WWE Women’s championships and two WWE Divas championships. She had been one of the most famous wrestlers among the fans during her prime time in WWE.
In 2011, she shocked the entire world when she announced her retirement at the age of 31 only. In 2010 she got married to WWE Legend The Undertaker and this wrestling duo is leaving happily together. She still makes sporadic appearances in WWE. Her recent Royal Rumble appearance were really cool.
Michelle McCool who is also a former two times WWE Divas champion recently spoke to Busted Open Radio where she looked back at retiring from Professional wrestling in 2011 and revealed why she made this decision. She said;
“You hear about the Women’s Evolution and of course, you hear about the Attitude Era with Trish and Lita and Jazz and Ivory and Victoria which all were amazing, obviously. Then our little Diva era kind of just gets skipped over.”
“We had to fight and claw. I think even on my retirement match, I think we were given 12 minutes with entrances. So probably, you know, nine minutes of wrestling, and we thought that was a rib, like, we’re getting this much time, because normally we had two or three.”
“I grew up loving the business, and when you love something so much, and then you start not enjoying it as much because of whether it’s, you know, obviously I married a top guy, right? So clearly, I got everything because of who my husband is and not the hard work that I put in.
“There’s that aspect of it. Then there’s just all this chaos around all the time. We really were just fighting for our spot. We didn’t know if we would be on TV the next week, so it was hard, but I wouldn’t change it. I’m not afraid to fight. I’m not afraid to work for what I’ve got. In fact, we’re just lecturing our daughter about that, but it was hard, and it was stressful, and it broke my heart to retire.”
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