<p>The world of wrestling has certainly changed over the years. Costumes have varied in their flamboyance, commentators have upped the ante with their drama, and wrestlers have come and gone. And while there are some wrestlers who have made their way into the ring without making much of an impact, there are others we just can&#8217;t forget. </p>

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<p>These former wrestling legends have all made their mark in one way or another over the course of their careers, but now that they&#8217;ve retired, things are a little different. While some have staked their place ring-side and still work in the industry, there are others who have disappeared from the wrestling scene and are now living very different lives. This is what the famous wrestlers are up to now. </p>

<p>With her trademark muscle flex and colorful headbands, there&#8217;s no doubt about the fact that Beth &#8220;Phoenix&#8221; Copeland has proved her worth within WWE. As a former WWE Divas Champion and a three-time WWE Women&#8217;s Champion, she&#8217;s got more accolades under her wrestling belt than we can count. But it seems as though her life has taken a slight turn over the years. </p>

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<p>After leaving the wrestling world behind in 2012, Beth Phoenix returned in 2017. Now, she still competes and even works as a full-time color commentator on&nbsp;<em>NXT</em>. But that&#8217;s not all. Beth also seems to be expanding her horizons as she&#8217;s currently a grad school student at Western Carolina University, where she&#8217;s studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling.</p>

<p>Whether you know him as Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, the &#8220;Heartbreak Kid&#8221;, &#8220;Mr. WrestleMania&#8221; or &#8220;The Showstopper&#8221;, you probably don&#8217;t need us to tell you that Shawn Michaels is a wrestling legend. He became one of the biggest names on the scene during the 1990s, and it was a tough blow to fans everywhere when an injury forced him to retire in 1998.</p>

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<p>Michaels later made a return to the ring &#8211; and this return lasted for almost two decades before he retired once again. Today, Shawn can be seen ringside as a commentator, but he&#8217;s also a budding actor. Since 2011, Shawn has worked on his very own outdoor show called <em>Shawn Michaels&#8217; MacMillan River Adventures</em>. He&#8217;s also put his name to movies like <em>The Resurrection of Gavin Stone</em> and <em>Pure Country: Pure Heart.</em></p>

<p>From 1999 until 2005, Lisa Moretti performed under the ring name of &#8220;Ivory.&#8221; Known largely for her role in the &#8216;Right to Censor&#8217; storyline, she quickly racked up fans across the world. This allowed her to become a three-time WWE champion, and she was even inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018. After all, she&#8217;s a legend. </p>

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<p>However, what you might not realize is that, while many fans still remember Lisa by her adventures inside the ring, her career is now on a very different path. Her experience of working with animal shelters during the &#8217;90s and &#8217;00s led the former wrestler to open up her own animal care and grooming facility. Since 2007, she has co-owned the Downton Dog center in Washington. </p>

<p>Considering Bret Hart was born into a famous Canadian wrestling family, it was no surprise to anyone when he made his way into the ring. After embracing his legacy, he moved from the amateur leagues to the big leagues of the WWE back in the 1980s. But in 1997 he moved to the WCW after he was involved in one of the most controversial unscripted wrestling moments of all time, the &#8220;Montreal Screwjob.&#8221;  </p>

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<p>Although he has made a few sporadic returns to the ring since he retired in both 2000 and 2011, Bret&#8217;s life has been pretty complicated over the years. In 2002, Hart suffered a stroke that left him wheelchair-bound for a short while. And then in 2016, he announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Because of this, he now spends most of his time using his platform to raise awareness for stroke and cancer charities. </p>

<p>When it comes to wrestling legends, Dallas Page is certainly up there. After making his way into the wrestling world first and foremost as a wrestling manager in 1988, he made his own way into the ring himself a year later. And the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, he&#8217;s become a three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, four-time WCW World Tag Team Champion, and so much more. </p>

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<p>Having competed for the WCW, WWE, TNA, and AEW, Page has a long history behind him. But his time in the ring came to an end in January 2020, and it&#8217;s been noted that he now hopes to spend more time on the yoga empire he created during the early &#8217;90s. As a keen lover of yoga, Dallas now spends his time teaching online, writing books and articles, and hosting a yoga radio show. </p>

<p>After starting her career as a fitness competitor and model during the 1990s, it wasn&#8217;t long before Torrie Wilson was making her way to WWE. Her career spanned across just shy of a decade, and during that time she made her mark through spectacular fights with the likes of Dawn Marie. While she retired in 2008, Torrie has definitely kept herself busy since her time in the ring.</p>

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<p>Now, one quick look at her Instagram page will show you that she&#8217;s just as fit as she has always been. Torrie prides herself on her health and fitness, and she has even transformed this love into a business. She is the owner and coach of the health and wellness website, FITTENSITY, as well as her own supplements company called OZODO. </p>

<p>After making herself known within the WWE Diva Search competition, Candice Michelle made her debut in 2004. And it&#8217;s safe to say that she quickly made her mark on wrestling fans across the globe. Not only did they love her talent in the ring, but fans also fell in love with her beauty and her confidence. While she was released from her contract five years later, Candice has been pretty busy since. </p>

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<p>In fact, the wrestling legend made her return to WWE in 2019, and she&#8217;s still making appearances every now and then. More than anything, though, Candice is spending time with her children. All while working on her career as a motivational speaker and coach. She is the founder of the 21 Day Champ Challenge, which inspires people across the globe to become the champions of their own lives. </p>

<p>Lawrence Wendell Pfohl went by the name of Lex Luger when he entered the ring, and nobody could deny that he was a force to be reckoned with. With his muscular physique and his imposing presence, Luger&#8217;s debut in 1985 sparked a wrestling revolution. And before he retired in 2006, he became a two-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and a one-time WWA World Heavyweight Champion.</p>

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<p>However, his life was turned upside down in 2007 when a nerve impingement in his neck left him partially paralyzed. For almost a year he was left unable to walk in a wheelchair, but it&#8217;s been noted that he can now walk on his own and even drive a car again. Since this experience, Lex has taken it upon himself to work with the WWE on their wellness policy, and he now works behind-the-scenes to keep the wrestling world on top form. </p>

<p>While she often goes by her ring name of &#8220;Kaitlyn&#8221;, most wrestling fans still know the name Celeste Bonin. After all, this lady has been in the WWE circuit for years, coming in and out of retirement to show off her talent in the ring. She&#8217;s won awards as both Kaitlyn and Celeste Bonin, and she&#8217;s even the current Slamforce Women&#8217;s Champion under her real, birth-given name. </p>

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<p>And while Celeste is still wrestling within the independent circuit, she&#8217;s also expanding her horizons to work on other ventures. Since 2014, she has run, operated, and designed for her own activewear clothing line called Celestial Bodiez. Plus, she opened up a smoothie bar just a year later, and so both of these businesses keep her busy. </p>

<p>Everyone knows Triple H, right? His ring name precedes him, and many don&#8217;t even know that this five-time&nbsp;Intercontinental Champion is actually called Paul Levesque. But one thing we do know for sure is that this man has dominated the wrestling world for decades. He&#8217;s been in the ring since 1992, and although he&#8217;s now semi-retired, he still dons his power stance every now and then. </p>

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<p>Even when Triple H isn&#8217;t in the ring himself, he&#8217;s never too far away. That&#8217;s because he has made waves as the founder and executive producer of <em>NXT</em>, the WWE-produced TV show that has taken over the world. He also owns over $1.5 million in WWE stock, so you could say that he&#8217;s fully invested in the wrestling lifestyle. </p>

<p>Although Jerry Lawyer made his way into the WWE in 1992, he had already been wrestling for years when he made this debut. So, it wasn&#8217;t long before he was winning over fans and proving his talent within the ring. Over the course of his career, he&#8217;s become known as &#8220;The King&#8221; &#8211; not only for the crown that he loves to wear but also due to the accolades he&#8217;s bagged along the way.</p>

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<p>Jerry was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame back in 2007, and since then, he&#8217;s continued his reign within the wrestling world. Today, he&#8217;s still signed to WWE as one of the most popular commentators of all time, but his voice can also be found elsewhere. That&#8217;s because Jerry has also started his own podcast called <em>The Jerry Lawler Show. </em></p>

<p>Known for her commanding presence and her relationship with husband Triple H both in and out of the ring, Stephanie McMahon is certainly a familiar name within the wrestling world. Although she has only made sporadic appearances as a wrestler herself, that hasn&#8217;t stopped her from bagging the WWF Women&#8217;s Championship and the Slammy Award for Rivalry of the Year. </p>

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<p>More than anything, though, Stephanie is known for being part of the iconic McMahon family &#8211; one of the biggest family names in wrestling. As a fourth-generation member of this family, she has worked her way up since she was a young girl. And she&#8217;s now taken on the role of WWE&#8217;s Chief Brand Officer. That means she&#8217;s a pretty big deal. </p>

<p>As both the son and grandson of two legendary wrestlers, fans across the globe knew that when Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson made his debut, he was going to smash it. And that&#8217;s exactly what he did. He wrestled professionally for eight years, and during that time he became widely regarded as one of the best wrestlers of all time. It&#8217;s that exposure that&#8217;s led him to where he is today.</p>

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<p>After all, even those who don&#8217;t know anything about his wrestling career know who Dwayne Johnson is. Over the years he&#8217;s become a Hollywood hunk, starring in action movies and Disney films alike. But more than anything, he&#8217;s become widely regarded as a businessman. In 2019, The Rock launched his very own tequila brand called Teremana&nbsp;Tequila. And so far, it&#8217;s become one of the most popular celebrity spirits of all time.</p>

<p>With his red mask and his in-ring relationship with his fictional half-brother, The Undertaker, Glenn &#8220;Kane&#8221; Jacobs became well-known within the world of WWE in the late &#8217;90s and early &#8217;00s. His most memorable moment came in 1998 when he beat Stone Cold Steve Austin in his first pay-per-view main event for the WWF Championship title. But life has taken a rather bizarre turn for this guy. </p>

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<p>While fans still know him from his wrestling days, Glenn has chosen a different pace of life since leaving the ring. His passion now lies in politics. After becoming the Mayor of Knox County, Jacobs has ditched his mask in favor of a suit and tie. He won his place in office in 2018, and he&#8217;s been there ever since. </p>

<p>From 2007 until 2013, Eve Torres dominated the WWE circuit. She first made her mark at the 2007 Diva Search, and her career skyrocketed from that point onwards. She soon broke records to become the first-ever three-time&nbsp;WWE Divas Champion, and many assumed that her career would continue for years to come. However, that wasn&#8217;t the case. </p>

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<p>Following her retirement, Eve decided to spend more time on a passion project that had been close to her heart for many years. She is now the head instructor at the Women Empowered Martial Arts School in California, and she teaches epic self-defense classes. She has also built up an impressive following on social media.</p>

<p>Terry Eugene Bollea&nbsp;&#8211; known by his ring name of Hulk Hogan &#8211; is arguably one of the most iconic wrestlers of all time. Over the course of his five-decade-long career, he&#8217;s transformed the wrestling world and become a household name. He&#8217;s retired and made his way back into the ring numerous times, and he&#8217;s well and truly back at the moment, with his handlebar mustache and outrageous clothes. </p>

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<p>But it&#8217;s fair to say that Hulk has also put his fingers in many other pies. Not only is he recognized for <em>Hogan Knows Best</em>, his family&#8217;s reality show during the &#8217;00s, but he&#8217;s also become a businessman. He&#8217;s opened up two restaurants over the years, including his most recent eatery called Hogan&#8217;s Hangout in Clearwater, Florida. </p>

<p>With his peroxide-blonde hair and his strong affinity for colorful, vibrant robes, there&#8217;s no doubt about the fact that Ric Flair created a lasting legacy for himself. His wrestling career has spanned over 40 years, and during that time he&#8217;s accumulated numerous titles and belts. In 2012 he even became the first two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame. </p>

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<p>And it seems as though he won&#8217;t be going anywhere anytime soon. Although Ric bowed away from the ring himself in 2012, he&#8217;s never too far away. That&#8217;s because he is now considered one of the best wrestling managers of all time. He&#8217;s even helped the next generation make their own mark on the wrestling world, as three of his kids have become professional wrestlers.</p>

<p>Whether you knew her as &#8220;Madusa&#8221; or &#8216;Alundra Blayze&#8221; you&#8217;re probably pretty familiar with this famous wrestler. Debrah Miceli made her professional wrestling debut in 1988, and showcased her talent as part of the WCW and later the WWF. And fans will undoubtedly remember her feuds with the likes of Bull Nakano and Bertha Faye. She loved the competition and now it seems as though she&#8217;s now using her competitive spirit elsewhere.</p>

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<p>Since 1999, Debrah has been driving monster trucks &#8211; and she soon took this passion and transformed it into something more. So, she bought her own truck, named it &#8220;Madusa&#8221;, and she&#8217;s still competing in monster truck competitions around the US today. Debrah is one of the few women in the sport, and it seems as though she&#8217;s paving the way for many others.</p>

<p>Nora Benshoof has gone by many names during her time in the ring, including &#8220;Mona&#8221; and &#8220;Miss Madness,&#8221; but she&#8217;s perhaps best known as &#8220;Molly Holly.&#8221; She made her debut in 2000, and has since become an overall three-time champion within the WWE. And while she&#8217;s semi-retired and making appearances every now and then, she&#8217;s putting more of her efforts into other projects now. </p>

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<p>Not only does Nora serve as a wrestling coach at The Academy School of Professional Wrestling in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but she&#8217;s also a charity worker. Nora became a born-again Christian in the &#8217;00s and has used her faith to inspire her to make a change. And after seeing so many of her WWE friends succumb to narcotics addiction, she now volunteers at a rehab clinic to help those who are struggling. </p>

<p>Before he became a professional wrestler within the WWE, Kurt Angle dominated the amateur circuit &#8211; and he even won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1966 Summer Olympics! So it was a natural progression to make his way into the WWE ring, and he quickly proved to everyone that he was meant to be there. He&#8217;s bagged himself countless accolades and broken numerous records over the years, and his life was pretty full-on.</p>

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<p>However, it seems as though Kurt now prefers a quieter way of life. Although he still makes appearances ring-side every now and then, he now seems to be settled into his life as a commentator, author, and podcaster. <em>The Kurt Angle Show</em> podcast will be released sometime in 2021, and the wrestler will host it alongside Conrad Thompson.</p>

<p>Before taking on the ring name of &#8220;Summer Rae,&#8221; Danielle Moinet was a member of the Chicago Bliss &#8211; a popular team within the Lingerie Football League. In 2011, she made her way into the ring and even onto our screens in <em>Total Divas</em>, and she quickly made an impression with her blonde locks and her overall presence. However, she was released from her WWE contract in 2017.</p>

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<p>Moinet is now working the independent circuit and continuing her wrestling career, but that&#8217;s not all. After racking up countless fans across the globe, Danielle has been able to kickstart her career as an Instagram model and influencer. You can find her posing for her 1.7 million followers on the app, and it seems as though fans can&#8217;t get enough of her content. </p>

<p>When you think of Chris Jericho, you probably put him in the same box as other wrestling icons. After all, he&#8217;s become one of the most well-known figures within WWE, and he&#8217;s been in the limelight for decades. The wrestling rockstar appeared in WWE from 1999 to 2018, and his home is now full of trophies, belts, and accolades that showcase his talent. </p>

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<p>Today, Chris Jericho is still wrestling for AEW, but that&#8217;s not all he does. He&#8217;s put his name to many movies and TV shows as an actor over the years, and he&#8217;s become a huge personality within pop culture as a whole. Because of this, he&#8217;s launched his own cruise experience called Chris Jericho&#8217;s Rock &#8216;N&#8217; Wrestling Rager at Sea. This sees passengers experience rock and roll and wrestling at the same time. </p>

<p>Whether you know her as &#8220;Lita&#8221;, &#8220;Angelica&#8221; or &#8220;Miss Congeniality&#8221;, there&#8217;s no doubt about the fact that Amy Dumas will forever be remembered within the world of wrestling. After starting her career in Mexico, Amy soon moved to WWE and claimed her space in the ring for six years. Thanks to this, she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2014. </p>

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<p>Since then, the four-time WWE Women&#8217;s Champion has moved onto many different ventures. She formed a short-lived rock band called The Luchadors, and she&#8217;s even made a name for herself as an animal activist. In recent years, though, she has put her name to an&nbsp;ASY TV&nbsp;web platform titled&nbsp;<em>The UFO Sho</em>. This saw her travel around the US looking for UFOs and extraterrestrial life. &nbsp;</p>

<p>We all know her as &#8220;Kelly Kelly,&#8221; and while that&#8217;s just Barbara Blank&#8217;s ring name &#8211; it&#8217;s also the name that&#8217;s made her an icon within the realm of wrestling. This blonde bombshell made her way to WWE in 2006 originally as a member of the Extreme Exposé. But it didn&#8217;t take her long to go from the non-wrestling role to one of the most popular wrestlers of them all. </p>

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<p>Although Barbara left WWE in 2012, she&#8217;s since continued her wrestling career sporadically. That&#8217;s alongside her acting attempts and maintaining her social media presence. Barbara has a whopping 1.2 million followers on Instagram, and she also set up a hugely popular YouTube channel in 2020 which features vlogs about her life. </p>

<p>Often performing under the name &#8220;Diesel,&#8221; Kevin Nash proved to everyone over the course of his 30-year career that he was built for life in the ring. As one of the biggest guys in the wrestling circuit, his big muscles and long hair made him an intimidating opponent. And he put up a good fight when involved in groups like the New World Order and The Kliq.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately for fans of Kevin Nash, he announced his retirement in 2020. And it seems as though he&#8217;s very much making the most of this time away from the ring. He doesn&#8217;t have too much on his schedule at the moment, but that&#8217;s not to say that he won&#8217;t continue his acting career. In the past, he&#8217;s starred in Hollywood movies like <em>Magic Mike XXL</em> and <em>Chick Fight</em>. </p>

<p>Patricia Stratigeas is more commonly known as &#8220;Trish Stratus,&#8221; and this ring name has followed her through decades of wrestling adventures. Often considered to be one of the most popular female wrestlers in WWE history, fans have been watching this legend in the ring since her debut in 2000. She&#8217;s become the WWE Hardcore Champion, WWE Babe of the Year, and even the Diva of the Decade. And she&#8217;s certainly not done yet. </p>

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<p>Trish is technically not retired and makes a return to the ring every now and then, but she&#8217;s tried to expand her horizons since becoming a mom. Inspired by her love of yoga, she&#8217;s created a fitness empire called &#8220;Stratusphere&#8221; that&#8217;s featured television shows, merchandise, workout plans, health products, and so much more. </p>

<p>Gail Kim made history when she made her WWE debut. In her first match, she managed to walk away with the WWE Women&#8217;s Championship belt, and she proved to everyone that she was a force to be reckoned with. Since then, she&#8217;s been part of legendary fights, and many fans have commended the Canadian wrestler for her epic knockouts. </p>

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<p>Since leaving WWE, she&#8217;s continued to make her mark in TNA and Impact Wrestling. But, she&#8217;s taken her love of wrestling to a whole new level recently. In 2020, she was offered the chance to become a producer for Impact Wrestling &#8211; and it seems as though she just couldn&#8217;t turn it down. </p>

<p>You probably don&#8217;t need us to tell you who this lady is, right? Debra Marshall &#8211; going by the ring name of &#8220;Debra&#8221; &#8211; is a legend from the 1990s. Often called &#8220;Queen Debra,&#8221; this leading lady became a fan favorite thanks to her beauty and her presence in the ring. And she certainly got hearts of pumping, as she had relationships with the likes of &#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin. </p>

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<p>Despite her fame and fortune, Debra left wrestling behind in 2002 &#8211; and it&#8217;s safe to say that she&#8217;s since disappeared from the limelight. Nobody quite knows what she&#8217;s up to at the moment, but we do know that she enrolled at the University of Alabama in 2013 with the intention of obtaining her master&#8217;s in Criminal Justice. </p>

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