McCool Retires?

Michelle McCool

Such a strange wave hitting through the WWE these days and the retirements are starting to rack up by the day it seems. The rumors have been going none stop that McCool would be taking part in a "Loser Leaves WWE" match against her long time cohort Layla at tonight's Extreme Rules show. But rumors being what they are, I can't say I believed it was happening until it was confirmed on Smackdown! this past Friday night.

A part of the rumors were the reasons behind why McCool was stepping away from the ring. Talk about Undertaker wanting his wife at home with up surfaced, others have speculated that she was leaving to start having kids.

Whatever the case might be, I am a little sad about her sudden "retirement" from the WWE. She is probably the only "diva" the WWE actually help to build up and actually succeeded. Sure there are other divas like Melina and... uh...

Anyway, yes there have been some other women to have some successes in the ring but I don't think any of them actually came close to what McCool did. She is one of the few female wrestlers left that actually started up from nothing and actually got to be pretty good. I suppose it does remain much easier for the WWE to simply pick up women that are already trained, rather then having to start everyone from the ground up. Then again it has been many years since any diva has had any significance to either Raw or Smackdown, so I guess it ultimately doesn't really mean or change all that much.

But at the end of all of this, personally as a fan I am sort of bummed that yet another favorite of mine is set to leave in such a short amount of time. But at least she isn't leaving because of some sort of injury or anything truly serious. And I guess that does leave the door open for a potential return somewhere down the road.