WWE Website Update Signals Roode, O’Neil In-Ring Retirements

WWE’s official website has quietly signaled the end of two in-ring careers, removing Bobby Roode and Titus O’Neil from the active roster page and shifting both men into the site’s ‘WWE Alumni’ section. Neither has appeared in a match in years, but the roster change marks the clearest indication yet that their wrestling days are officially over, even as both remain part of the company in other roles.

Roode last wrestled in June 2022, losing to Omos at a non-televised live event in Amarillo, Texas, with his final televised appearance coming in the 2022 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal on the SmackDown before WrestleMania 38. He never reached world championship gold during his WWE run following his 2017 call-up from NXT, but he did capture the United States Championship and held tag team gold alongside both Chad Gable and Dolph Ziggler. Since stepping away from the ring, Roode has built a second career backstage as one of WWE’s top producers, working closely with Michael Hayes and reportedly playing an active role in creative discussions — a presence that was highlighted on Netflix’s Unreal docuseries.

O’Neil’s in-ring absence stretches back even further, to a November 2020 loss to Bobby Lashley on Raw. He’s best remembered for one of WWE’s most unintentionally iconic moments, tumbling and sliding under the ring during his entrance at the 2018 Greatest Royal Rumble — forever nicknamed ‘Titus Worldslide.’ He also won tag team gold with Darren Young as the Prime Time Players and later led the Titus Worldwide stable with Apollo Crews and Dana Brooke. Since exiting full-time competition, O’Neil has served as WWE’s Global Ambassador, spearheading the company’s charitable efforts around the world and making periodic on-air appearances as a commentator or panelist, particularly around events like WrestleMania.

Of the two, O’Neil has been more open in the past about not fully closing the door on an in-ring return, though his removal from the active roster page suggests that possibility is more remote than ever. Roode, meanwhile, revealed a couple of years ago that he had actually been medically cleared to wrestle again following a back injury, but stated at the time that a full-time comeback wasn’t realistic for him.

Still, wrestling retirements are rarely absolute, and the abrupt, low-key nature of both men’s final matches leaves the door open for a one-off farewell down the line — the kind of send-off neither got in real time. For now, though, this website update functions as WWE’s de facto retirement announcement for two veterans whose value to the company clearly hasn’t diminished, even if their in-ring days have quietly come to a close. Roode continues shaping storylines from behind the curtain, while O’Neil remains one of the most visible ambassadors for WWE’s community work — proof that a spot off the active roster doesn’t mean a spot off the roster entirely.