10 Wrestlers Who Had A Late Career Renaissance

5. Mae Young

Whilst this list is mostly about performers whose in-ring careers picked up later in life, we couldn’t leave off a woman who enjoyed her most successful stint in wrestling well into her 70s. A trailblazing women’s wrestler in the mid-20th Century, Mae Young first rocked up in WWE in 1999 as the on-screen best bud of The Fabulous Moolah, who was an already-established name within WWE. 

Over the next few years, Mae Young won over audiences around the world with her outrageous antics; antics that women 50 years younger would have looked at and gone “nah, you’re alright, thanks”.

She participated in several comedic sketches with the likes of Moolah, Terri, The Kat, and Ivory, continually threatened to get naked on TV, got into a relationship with Mark Henry, gave birth to a hand, and generally just spread laughter and joy wherever she went. It’s not like she wasn’t seeing any action either. This was the woman who got powerbombed off the stage through some tables aged 77.