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Ex-WWE Name Retiring After Final Match On July 12

By Ahmed Hamdy • Published Jul 06, 2025 08:56 EDT
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Another former WWE name is ending his long wrestling career.

Scott Armstrong kicked off his wrestling journey in the mid-1980s. He wrestled for multiple promotions, including WCW, before signing with WWE in 2006.

During his time in the Stamford-based company, the 64-year-old mostly served as a referee, briefly associating himself with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon’s The Authority faction. He also worked as a producer.

While he was released in April 2020, he returned a few months later. However, Armstrong was let go again in January 2022. The wrestling veteran competed in only one match during his WWE stint. He lost to CM Punk on SmackDown in October 2009.

Following his departure, the veteran competed in only two matches in 2022 and 2023. Diamond Championship Wrestling (DCW) recently announced that Armstrong would step into the ring for one last time on July 12, ending his 40+ year career.

💎 A LEGEND’S FINAL CHAPTER 💎DCW: Pay the Piper 2 LIVE on PPV on Saturday, July 12th! Join us as Scott Armstrong, a Gulf Coast icon, 40+ year veteran of professional wrestling, and proud member of the legendary Armstrong family, steps into the ring ONE LAST TIME.

Scott Armstrong Credited Late WWE Legend For Getting Him A Job In Company

In an interview with Da Podcast with Steve Finga Stylz in 2023, Scott Armstrong opened up about how he landed a job in WWE while working at a furniture store and doing independent shows on weekends.

The wrestling veteran credited the late Umaga for getting him into WWE. He revealed that the former Intercontinental Champion insisted that he must work in the wrestling business full-time.

Armstrong recalled the WWE legend getting him in contact with John Laurinaitis, who was head of Talent Relations at the time, which eventually led to him spending almost two decades in the promotion.

I was 45 years old and Umaga, God rest his soul, he lived in Pensacola. Right now, I’m in Pensacola and so, he lived in Pensacola at the time and he walked in that furniture store not having a clue that I worked there and he said, ‘What are you doing here man?’ He said, ‘No Armstrong is supposed to be doing anything other than the wrestling business.

What are you doing here?’ And we talked a little bit and laughed and he said, ‘Hey man, I’m gonna go back to work and tell ‘em’ because he was with WWE at the time and I said, ‘I’m good dude. I’m 45 now and I’ve been home five years so I’m doing homework with my kids, I’m having dinner every night with them’ and I’d never done that.

I’d always been on the road and he said, ‘Yeah, this just don’t feel right man’ and so, about a month later, he walks back in the furniture store and hands me John Laurinaitis — who’s the head guy at the time — and he hands me his phone number and said, ‘Johnny says call him’ and Johnny was on my Japan tour and he was in WCW so I know him. ‘Johnny said call him’ and I went, ‘Oh no, man. I’m good dude.’ I start begging off. He said, ‘Scotty, at least call and feel it out and see what they say’ and jeez, the rest is history. I made it to 60 years old… I had a really, really positive, good run with WWE so, look, it was a lot of fun. [H/T: Post Wrestling]