Discussion today of Aaron Stone brings to mind numerous wrestlers who were around only for a brief period of less than a year, clearly excluding international visitors and silly masked fodder.
Great things were clearly envisaged for Aaron with that Who's Who inclusion, so he must have disappointed the promoters. I mentioned the beguiling photo of Yorkie Walker, clawing his way terrifyingly off the page. But I don't see him on any of the bills we examine.
I suppose the reasons for such fleeting ring careers can be summarised in: Did he jump or was he pushed?
If they failed to fill engagements, that was surely curtains.
But for some, unsurprisingly, it probably just wasn't what they'd hoped. The bumps, the travelling, the jobbing, the necessary showmanship.
A few years later I recall Jack Armstrong, very efficient but timid and couldn't work the crowd. He disappeared, Dusty Miller, Mr Big of 1969 (brief return ten years later), Jim Fitzmaurice, one of The Shamrocks .... quite a few others.
I guess we deserve a badge of honour for seeing these fleeting fossils live.
Can anyone add to the list?
Can you add other reasons why they'd stop? Some went abroad (Robert Bruce); in rare cases others passed away after very short careers (Ezzard Hart.) Maybe there were other reasons?
One even found his way the the cover of The Wrestler, Ted someone, the name escapes me right now.
Hillbilly Albert Hellon was very fleeting,saw him on TV then he vanished