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Unrelated Brothers
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Brothers are a common phenomenon in wrestling. This makes sense; the consecutive Super Bowl successes of Peyton and Eli Manning at least hint at a genetic component to athletic success. The presence of siblings in a wrestling promotion contributes a degree of logic and realism to the proceedings; after all, it seems only natural—and a tag team of brothers is even more logical, for surely siblings would work together more effectively than a tandem composed of mere acquaintances. Wrestling brothers might indeed form a legendary and oft-decorated team, like Rick and Scott Steiner; or each might be recognized as a legitimate star in his own right, like Dory and Terry Funk (each a former NWA world champion). If they were once a single zygote, then you have Tag Team Twins, such as Ron and Don Harris (they would also qualify as a Sibling Team). If there are a bunch of them, like the Harts or the Von Erichs, that's a Wrestling Family. But sometimes there's a dearth of brother combinations in a promotion. Does the promoter remedy the situation by sending out scouts to recruit talented young brother duos? No, this is wrestling. He fixes the problem the same way he fixes every problem: by inventing the answer out of whole cloth and lying to us about it. When a promoter forms a tag team from two guys who look vaguely alike and slaps a new surname on one or both of them, the result is a set of Unrelated Brothers. It isn't used as much now as it used to be, but it still pops up from time to time. The other medium in which this occurs, although less frequently, is in popular music. Bands of Relatives are often popular, especially in country music where "brother acts" became common enough to get a collective phrase, so occasionally a band who aren't actually related will claim to be related, usually siblings. While this trope takes literally in tandem, they can be Bash Brothers. |
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Kane was introduced to WWE in 1997 as The Undertaker's brother, though in 1998, this was retconned to him being revealed as 'Taker's half-brother. Their status as being only half-brothers is largely ignored in-universe, though the recent DVD release of The Undertaker's Deadliest Matches does feature Undertaker, doing narration, making reference to their status as half-brothers, so it hasn't been retconned yet, at least so far as anybody knows. A lot of real world half-siblings will simply reference their half-sibling as their brother or sister. Mostly this one is still remembered; best example is that whenever they team up, the tag team is called the "Brothers of Destruction." It is occasionally referenced when they feud. |
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Shawn and Ariya Daivari. | |
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Eddie and Doug Gilbert both entered the GWF upon its inception in 1991. Doug spent his entire tenure competing under a mask as The Dark Patriot, and their relationship was never acknowledged—even when Eddie beat Doug for the promotion's heavyweight title. | |
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Much less that their father is Irwin R. Schyster. WWE has lately acknowledged him as Dallas's father, though not Wyatt's. Even when Wyatt died prematurely in 2023, WWE's announcement didn't mention that IRS was his father (though it did mention Wyatt's real name). | |
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Eugene was Eric Bischoff's "nephew". | |
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The Giant (Paul "The Big Show" Wight)'s original gimmick in WCW was André the Giant's "son". He still to this day has people tell him how much they loved his "dad". | |
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Michael Hayes and "Hollywood" John Tatum were billed as cousins in the National Wrestling Alliance in the early 1980s. | |
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The Walker Brothers weren't actually brothers. | |
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In Lucha Underground, Fénix and Pentagon Jr. After they moved to AEW, respectively being renamed Rey Fénix and Penta El Zero Miedo (later Penta Oscuro), that promotion played with the trope, teaming them up as the Lucha Brothers while not acknowledging their real-life relationship. | |
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Hillbilly Jim and his "relatives" Cousin Luke, Cousin Junior and Uncle Elmer. | |
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Early in his career, Shane Douglas was billed as "Troy Orndorff", Paul Orndorff's "nephew". | |
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Neither are Paul Burchill and Katie Lea. | |
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Marty Martinez and his "sister" Mariposa, also in Lucha Underground. | |
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Also in 1988, WWE elected not to acknowledge real-life half brothers Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Sam Houston, nor their sister, women's champion Rockin' Robin. | |
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The Chemical Brothers aren't really brothers, although few people ever took the name literally anyway. | |
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Who can forget that Hornswoggle was Vince McMahon's bastard son, only to actually be Fit Finlay son? Everybody, actually. | |
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The relationship has now been acknowledged by WWE. CM Punk called out John Laurinaitis (then WWE Executive Vice President of Talent Relations) for being such a vindictive management type because he's bitter over never being as successful as his brother, who was a member of one of the greatest tag teams of all time. | |
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In a rather obscure example, Trisa Hayes Laughlin, better known to ECW fans as Beulah McGillicutty, had a brief run in Stampede Wrestling in The '80s as Brian Pillman's "sister" Theresa. Hayes and Pillman had been dating at the time in Real Life, so that's how she got the gig. | |
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By far the most famous example is the Anderson family, Lars, Gene, Ole, and Arn Anderson. The Andersons were usually billed as a team of brothers, though Ole and Arn were sometimes billed as uncle and nephew due to Arn being the youngest. The four had nothing in common at all, other than a passing physical similarity, and only Gene was actually named Anderson in real life. | |
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The adult-oriented Women's Extreme Wrestling had the team of Talia and Tiffany Madison. Tiffany faded away. Talia went on to success in TNA as...Velvet Sky. | |
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Waldo Von Erich was not related in any way to Fritz Von Erich, patriarch of the five wrestling Von Erich brothers and three wrestling Von Erich grandchildren. "Cousin" Lance Von Erich was likewise unrelated to the Fritz side or the Waldo side of the family, though he was billed as being Waldo's son. Fritz famously revealed this, breaking Kayfabe in a time when it was king, after Lance left the territory on bad terms. |
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Jason Jordan of American Alpha was revealed to be the kayfabe son of Kurt Angle. | |
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In 2002, brothers Solofa Fatu Jr. (then wrestling as Rikishi) and the late Eddie Fatu (then known as Jamal, most recently as Umaga) were on the WWE roster at the same time. They never really interacted in storylines, and weren't acknowledged as brothers (though given the complexity of the Samoan wrestling family tree, they may have been the only ones who knew). | |
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While working in Florida in the mid-1980s, the legendary Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk decided they needed another brother so they were joined by Jesse Barr, sporting a Lone Ranger-style mask and going by the name Jimmy Jack Funk. They were even able to convince Vince McMahon to bring him in to the WWF to team with "Hoss" (aka Dory) after Terry got a singles push. | |
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Joe and John Laurinaitis (better known as Road Warrior Animal and Johnny Ace [or the "People Power" guy of 2011-2012, respectively) have never been acknowledged as related, let alone as brothers, even though they've been in the same promotion together—most notably the NWA of the late 1980s. Furthermore, a third brother, Marcus Laurinaitis, was a Jobber in the NWA around that time, competing as The Terminator. And Vince McMahon is on record as saying that Joe's son James is welcome on his roster if football doesn't work out. Although the Butkus Award for best college linebacker made that prospect unlikely, and he played eight seasons in the NFL before retiring in 2017 and moving to football broadcasting. The relationship has now been acknowledged by WWE. CM Punk called out John Laurinaitis (then WWE Executive Vice President of Talent Relations) for being such a vindictive management type because he's bitter over never being as successful as his brother, who was a member of one of the greatest tag teams of all time. |
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There have also been Psycho Sam Dudley (real name: Mark Vartanian), who teamed with Big Dick Dudley in the New York City-based USA Pro (later USA Xtreme) Wrestling, Schmuck Dudley (real name: Jeff Roth), who teamed with Little Snot Dudley in the Florida independent scene, and Urkel Dudley in the Florida independent promotion Outlaw Championship Wrestling. | |
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James "Little Guido" Maritato was introduced in WWE as Jamie Noble's cousin Nunzio. The relationship was deemphasized and never subsequently mentioned, even when they wrestled each other, but never officially retconned. | |
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The Fabulous Kangaroos had Johnny Heffernan, real name Bob Della Serra, who was billed as original member Roy Heffernan's "cousin". | |
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The Dudley Boys are a collection of half-brothers, each allegedly having the same father but different mothers. The most famous are Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley, who formed a successful tag team in WWE and later TNA; however, the clan had its origins in the original ECW, where several more half-brothers dwelt, including Little Spike Dudley, Dudley Dudley, the late Big Dick Dudley, Little Snot Dudley, Dances with Dudley, Chubby Dudley, and Sign Guy Dudley. There have also been Psycho Sam Dudley (real name: Mark Vartanian), who teamed with Big Dick Dudley in the New York City-based USA Pro (later USA Xtreme) Wrestling, Schmuck Dudley (real name: Jeff Roth), who teamed with Little Snot Dudley in the Florida independent scene, and Urkel Dudley in the Florida independent promotion Outlaw Championship Wrestling. |
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In their early days, Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake were billed as brothers; either as Hulk and Dizzy Hogan or Terry and Ed Boulder, depending on the promoter. | |
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Andre Chase and Lance Bravado. Chase has teaming up with his brother in other promotion using ringname Harlem Bravado such as Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Noah and ImpactWrestling. In WWE Chase were not acknowledged that he has an older brother. | |
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And Vince McMahon is on record as saying that Joe's son James is welcome on his roster if football doesn't work out. Although the Butkus Award for best college linebacker made that prospect unlikely, and he played eight seasons in the NFL before retiring in 2017 and moving to football broadcasting. | |
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Jerry Graham had three storyline brothers: Eddie Graham, "Crazy" Luke Graham, and former WWE World Heavyweight Champion "Superstar" Billy Graham. None were related to him, nor were they really named Graham. The only Grahams who were actually related to each other were Eddie and Mike, in Real Life father and son Edward and Michael Gossett. |
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TNA had Rosita (Thea Trinidad) and Sarita (Sarah Stock). | |
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Christian (Cage) and Edge were introduced as brothers upon their entrance to WWE in 1998. As their characters evolved in the mid-2000s, this aspect of their relationship was deemphasized, but was never officially retconned until 2010 when the two finally referred to themselves simply as best friends since childhood. It doesn't help that Edge is actually one month older than Christian (Edge born October 30th, and Christian on November 30th, both in 1973). In fact, in his autobiography, Edge referred to Christian as "In real life, the brother I never had. On TV, the brother I do have." |
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Shortly before the Toryumon split, long running Dragon Gate wrestler Genki Horiguchi got a little brother named Hiromi Horiguchi. After the schism, Genki went to DG and Hiromi stayed with Toryumon Mexico, so they never met in the ring. It wasn't revealed they were only kayfabe brothers until years later. | |
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Bob Orton Jr. and Barry O (father and uncle, respectively, of Randy Orton) were not acknowledged as such in WWE - probably due to Bob being an upper mid-carder and Barry being a jobber (or, later, Barry accusing WWE executives of sexual harassment). | |
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Parodied on Homestar Runner. The Brothers Strong do not look at all similar, but it later turns out they really are brothers. | |
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Ric Flair was a cousin of the Andersons (see above) during the early years of their affiliation in the NWA. When he debuted, he was also billed as the nephew of veteran wrestler Rip Hawke. | |
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Despite previously working as a brother team in FCW, there have been no allusions to the relationship between Bray Wyatt (Windham Rotunda) and Bo Dallas (Taylor Rotunda). Much less that their father is Irwin R. Schyster. WWE has lately acknowledged him as Dallas's father, though not Wyatt's. Even when Wyatt died prematurely in 2023, WWE's announcement didn't mention that IRS was his father (though it did mention Wyatt's real name). |
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The Golden Brothers (Mike & Dizzy Golden) who competed in Texas All-Star Wrestling in the mid-1980s were not related; Dizzy Golden was one Bill Smithson, whose most famous persona was Moondog Spike in IWCCW and the USWA. | |
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Nor were Ken Shamrock and Ryan Shamrock (real name Alicia Webb, known as Symphony in WCWnote If that name sounds familiar, she was formerly the longtime girlfriend of Sean Waltman). Much like the Burchill "siblings" above they became a couple in real life. | |
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World Class Championship Wrestling mainstay Solomon Grundy (your typical "wrestling hillbilly" gimmick) competed in Mexico in the early 1990s. During his tenure there, he was joined in tag team matches by his brother, Aaron Grundy—played by Mike Shaw, better known as Norman The Lunatic in the NWA and would subsequently portray Makhan Singh in the GWF and Friar Ferguson and Bastion Booger in WWE. | |
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In Wrestling Society X, Sara Del Rey played Vic Grimes' "sister," "Nic Grimes." | |
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Roderick Strong, better known for his work in TNA and Ring of Honor, started in the Florida IPW independent promotion in early 2000 teaming with his "brother" Sedrick Strong. | |
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For a time, this was played straight with Triple H, when he was first billed as Vince's stepson, as he wasn't actually married to Stephanie McMahon until several years later. | |
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