8 Wrestling Careers That Ended In One Match

Rick Rude

Rick Rude was at the terribly pinnacle of his career before it over, having won his initial NWA World Heavyweight Championship in 1993, happening to feud for the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship throughout 1994. However, all it might take is one unfortunate injury that was no one’s fault to effectively finish the 35-year-old star’s career, then and there.

Rude was on a tour of Japan with alternative WCW stars, with Rude vs Sting being pushed as a main event at several venues. On May 1st, Sting performed a suicide dive onto Rude, however as Rude caught Sting he fell backwards, landing on a section of AN uneven, raised platform that caused him to severely harm each his neck and back, inflicting him to retire on the spot.

The bungled spot is effectively neither man’s fault, as each Rude’s catching position and Sting’s try at a dive were each mistakes, given the circumstances. Rude would maintain to look in ECW, WWF and WCW programming as a social control figure, till his untimely drug connected death in 1999.