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Wrestling Family
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Professional Wrestling is very much a family business, after all, the secrets of Kayfabe are more secure when passed down to relatives rather than shared with outsiders. There have been many, many families involved with the pseudo-sport; generally, it begins with a successful patriarch, whose children all follow him into the business. If you're part of a wrestling family, you have an in-built gimmick; you're a second-generation (or, less likely, third-generation) wrestler trying to live up to the legacy of your forefathers. You also have in-built allies when things get rough; namely, your brothers. Sometimes however, family members are portrayed as antagonistic towards each other, especially if they are brothers. A Wrestling Family may be an actual family, such as the Guerreros or the Harts, or it may be fictional, such as the Andersons or the Dudleys. A family may even blend the two, as did the Von Erichs (primarily made up of the Adkisson family, though two members, Waldo and Lance Von Erich, weren't Adkissons). A family may not even be acknowledged on screen (such as the Anoa'i family, whose members include almost every Wild Samoan in North American wrestling [and the one sumo wrestler]), though its presence is certainly felt. A Sub-Trope of Real-Life Relative. Sibling Team often comes into play with tag teams. Compare to It Runs in the Family. See also Circus Brat, for another type of performance which runs in the family. |
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Nicole and Brianna Garcia, better known as Nikki and Brie, the Bella Twins. (Brie is married to Bryan Danielson and has two daughters; Nikki dated John Cena at one point.) | |
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CMLL has El Gran Hamada along with his two daughters, Xóchitl and Ayako. It also includes Tiger Mask IV, due to him marrying a sister of Ayako and Xóchtil who's not a wrestler. | |
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Tonga Fifita, better known as Haku (WWF/E) and Meng (WCW), has a son named Tevita Fifita who worked as the Mexican bodyguard for Hunico, Camacho, in WWE. His adopted son, Alipate, wrestles for New Japan Pro-Wrestling as Tama Tonga and was joined by Tevita, going by Tanga Roa, to form the Guerrillas of Destiny. | |
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Son Shane has been, in order, part of the ring crew, a referee (under the name "Shane Stevens"), a "backstage official", a color commentator, a member of The Corporation (a Heel faction), a "wrestler" (European and Hardcore Champion), "owner" of WCW and leader of the WCW-ECW Alliance, and tag-team partners with his father. Offscreen, he was the Vice President of Global Media for WWE until his departure in 2009, leaving to become the CEO of a technology company dedicated to bringing widespread internet access to Chinese citizens. Then he returned in 2016, was General Manager (and later comissioner) of WWE SmackDown, was a Tag Team champion with The Miz and led his own posse after turning heel before being given the kayfabe boot and returning as the host of Raw Underground. | |
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Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch have been married since 2021. | |
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Peyton Royce and Shawn Spears have been married since 2019. | |
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Shawn Michaels' cousin Matt Bentley (sometimes known as Michael Shane) wrestled for TNA from 2003 to 2007, winning the X-Division title twice, before retiring in 2008 to start a band called Lost in Chaos. | |
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Darby Allin and Priscilla Kelly/Gigi Dolin were married from 2018-2020. | |
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Drew Galloway aka Drew McIntyre and Taryn Terrell were married from 2010-2011. | |
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The UK has the Bevis family, known in kayfabe as the Knights, which started with Patrick Bevis, who began wrestling in 1985 as Ricky Knight, and his wife Julia Hamer-Bevis, who wrestled as Sweet Saraya once her husband finished training her. Then daughter Nikki Best, sons Roy Knight and Zak Zodiac and daughter Britani Knight, who joined WWE as Paige and became an NXT standout and later Divas Champion, and after retiring for a few years returned as Saraya in AEW. Nikki had a son named Patrick, Roy two sons in RJ and Zodiac Kid, who all became wrestlers too. | |
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One of the original plans for Sable's feud with Tori (not Wilson) in 1999 was for Tori to turn out to be Sable's biological sister. Indeed many reports for the shows where Tori would be seen sitting in the front row would point out how similar they looked. The creative team then scrapped that idea and made Tori just an obsessed fan. | |
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During Sting's (Steve Borden) final match at AEW Revolution in 2024, his sons Garrett and Steve Jr. got physically involved, each dressing as one of their father's past in-ring personas. Garrett's wife Katelyn has a backstage role in AEW. | |
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Larry "The Axe" Hennig and son Curt ("Mr. Perfect"). Curt's son Joe Hennig has competed on NXT season 2 and appeared on RAW as The Nexus's Michael McGillicutty, and then Curtis Axel (as a tribute to both his father and his grandfather, as well as using his own middle name), winning the Intercontinental Championship at one point and temporarily aligning himself with Paul Heyman. | |
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Truth in Television. Vince admitted in a Playboy interview to have constantly screwed around on Linda in the eighties, and was accused of sexually harassing a tanning bed employee in 2006. However, as Vince is someone whose blood could test positive for kayfabe, little of what he says should be taken as fact. | |
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Bobo Brazil's Brother Hank James, his eventual wife, Kathleen Wembley and their son, Bobo Brazil Jr, were all wrestlers, if not as well known as him. | |
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Eugene was originally introduced as Eric Bischoff's nephew. | |
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Eddie, the younger of the siblings, wrestled in AAA, CMLL and NJPW, was one of the biggest attractions of WCW's Cruiserweight division, jumped ship to WWE as part of The Radicalz and eventually became WWE World Champion after defeating his own demons before passing away in 2005. Afterwards, the rumor was that Vince had promised Vicky that if they chose, there would always be some member of the Guerrero Family employed in WWE. This did remain the case until the spring of 2020, when Matthew Rehwoldt (Aiden English) was released from his contract, alongside over 20 other wrestlers, as part of WWE's cost cutting measures. | |
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His one-time daughter-in-law, Miss Elizabeth. | |
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Nikki Cross and Big Damo/Killian Dain have been married since 2019. | |
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Former wrestler/promoter Jerry Jarrett and his son Jeff Jarrett, who he actually helped follow in his footsteps through the co-founding of one TNA. Oh, and Jarrett's wife Karen, who was previously married to Kurt Angle. | |
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The Vachon family started in the 1951 NWA, and later, the AWA with brothers Butcher (Paul) and Mad Dog (Maurice) and their sister Vivian (Diane). Paul's daughter Gertrude is probably the most well-known for her stint in the New Generation era of WWF as Luna Vachon. Her brothers are Damien (Pitbull) and Pierre (The Beast) who wrestled in Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling. Vivian's son Ian Carnegie is an arm wrestler. Luna was married to and raised children with WWE's Attitude Era vampire Gangrel. Also, her godfather was André the Giant. The Other Wiki mentions that she was buried at a ranch that he used to own; presumably, this is the same ranch where his cremains were scattered. |
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The Tate Twins out of the Ohio Valley, also two of many "Boys" who participated in a Vegas show send up with Dalton Castle. | |
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The Ibarra family, the most famous member undoubtedly being Adolfo aka La Parka (later changed to L.A. Park due to legal issues with AAA stemming from his time in WCW). Adolfo's younger brother, Eustacio, wrestled as El Hijo de Cien Caras until being murdered for unknown reasons in 2010. Adolfo's uncle Ramon wrestled initially as Volador until becoming Super Parka (in reference to his nephew) in 1997 while Ramon's son wrestles as Volador Jr. Two more of La Parka's uncles are also wrestlers under the name Johnny Ibarra and Desalmado. La Parka's son, whose name has yet to be publicly revealed, began wrestling as Black Spirit in 2008 and became El Hijo de L.A. Park in 2010. He and his father now tag-team as Los Parks, and took the MLW tag team belts off the aforementioned Marshall and Ross Von Erich in January 2021. | |
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The Great Muta (Keiji Mutoh) was initially introduced in the West as the son of the Great Kabuki. Later, in Fighting Opera HUSTLE, Monster Bono was introduced as Great Muta's son, though Bono is more like a monster he accidentally created when he magically impregnated Yinling instead of his biological offspring. Nonetheless, he adopted him as a legitimate child, and joined him and his mother. The family had a sad end, as Yinling was killed by Bono in retribution to her abuses, and Muta sacrificied himself to send The Esperanza to the underworld in order to save his son. | |
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Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae have been married since 2016. | |
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Harlem Heat (of which Booker T became famous in singles competition) were composed of Booker and Lash "Stevie Ray" Huffman. | |
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While mentioned further down in the siblings category, the Hardy clan has expanded in recent years with Matt's marriage to fellow wrestler Reby Sky. Her father-in-law worked as Señor Benjamin, a simple gardener with a penchant for carrying a taser, in the Broken Hardy gimmick. Matt and Reby's son—Maxel—played a part in the storyline as well and became one of the youngest pro wrestlers when he defeated (with the help of his grandfather) Rockstar Spud. | |
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Matt and Jeff Hardy of the Hardy Boyz (or The Hardys in AEW). | |
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Angelina Love and Davey Richards were married from 2015-2017. | |
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Bianca Belair and Montez Ford of the Street Profits have been married since 2018. | |
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The Legacy stable has been entirely composed of subsequent-generation wrestlers: Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase Jr. (although the "Jr." is dropped in WWE as with Rey Mysterio), Cody Rhodes, and former Legacy hopefules "Manu" (Afa Anoa'i Jr.). and "Sim Snuka" (Jimmy Snuka Jr.). | |
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The largest would be the Harts of Calgary. Father Stu and mother Helen sired twelve children. Eleven would go on to either wrestle or marry wrestlers. His seven wrestling sons were Smith, Bruce, Keith, Dean, Bret (the most famous), Ross, and the youngest, Owen, who died when a stunt went wrong in a 1999 Pay Per View. Son Wayne became a referee. All four daughters married wrestlers: Ellie (Jim Neidhart), Georgia (B.J. Annis), Alison (Ben Bassarab), and Diana (Davey Boy Smith). The third generation of Harts has entered wrestling, as Diana and Davey Boy's son Harry wrestles in WWE as D.H. Smith (one half of The Hart Dynasty, with Hart House trainee Tyson Kidd, who later marries Natalya), Ellie and Jim's daughter Nattie is on the WWE roster as Natalya, two of Bruce's sons Bruce Jr. and Torrin have wrestled and helped their father train wrestlers, two of Smith's sons Matt and Mike are also currently wrestling in the independent circuit in Canada, and Georgia and B.J.'s son Teddy has become a fixture in the independent wrestling scene as Teddy Hart.note Or tried to, as he has a history of getting fired for pissing off entire locker rooms. And just to make this weirder, Bret's first wife was a sister-in-law of wrestler Thomas Billington (Dynamite Kid) — who is Davey Boy Smith's cousin. Dynamite's oldest daughter Bronwyne Billington and her husband, Dan, are also involved with wrestling, they're known as The Dynamite Doll and Dynamite Dan. Another in-law is Pete Minnema (Pete Wilson) who is married to Brooke B Hart, one on Alison's daughters. And let's not forget that it was confirmed in Roddy Piper's biography that he was a "distant relative" of the Hart family. |
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Fun fact: The father and son in this family were modeled after Goldust and The Blue Blazer, respectively. | |
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In the wake of Eddie's death, WWE provided his widow Vickie with a non-wrestling personality job. She has served as General Manager for both RAW and SmackDown and has later played a managerial role. She's serving a non-wrestling role in All Elite Wrestling. | |
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Karl Anderson was originally billed as a member in the indies, which probably still holds true. Chad Allegra himself has no known relation to any of the above; he's just another bald wrestler with a full beard. | |
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Thom Latimer was married to wrestling royalty Charlotte Flair from 2013-2015, and then to another wrestler Kamille since 2022. | |
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Dolph Ziggler (real name Nick Nemeth) has a younger brother, Ryan, who worked in NXT primarily as an interviewer as Briley Pierce. | |
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And let's not forget that it was confirmed in Roddy Piper's biography that he was a "distant relative" of the Hart family. | |
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In early 2008 Katie Lea was called up to the main roster to be the kayfabe sister of Paul Burchill in a controversial angle with some Incest Subtext. | |
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"Bullet" Bob Armstrong had four sons who all took up wrestling: Brad, Steve, Scott, and Brian. Only the latter has gone on to any sort of real fame in wrestling (as "Road Dogg" Jesse James in WWE, and then B.G. James in TNA}, although Scott is now one of WWE's top referees. Brad was known for a series of bad gimmicks in WCW, and Steve was best remembered for being WWF's Lance Cassidy. The former three were subject to a storyline in WCW centering around the Armstrong Curse, which largely amounted to Lampshade Hanging for using them as jobbers. Brian's been known to mock the Armstrong Curse idea by, for example, wearing shirts that read, "Look ma, no curse." | |
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Doug Anderson may not have any relation to the more famous Minnesota Wrecking Crew but is part of his own wrestling family with brother Billy, who he started wrestling with in 1974 and later his daughter, Cheerleader Melissa. | |
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On My Name Is Earl, Joy's half-sister Liberty is aspiring to join BLOW (Black Ladies of Wrestling). She plays "Lady Liberty," and her husband Ray-Ray plays her evil manager, "Da Man". (Even though he'd rather go for walks with his pet bearded dragon.) | |
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�guila del América from Mexico's version of the World Wrestling Association, later known as Muerte Súbita, has three nephew luchadors in Cronic, Súper Laredo and Laredo Kid. The latter two have worked as a pareja in the World Wrestling League. They were opponents in AAA though. | |
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George Wagner debuted in 1929, found fame in the 30s as the Trope Maker for Gorgeous George and adopted a son who wrestled as Gorgeous George Jr. His grandnephew Robert Kellum wrestled as Gorgeous George III, then as The Maestro and The Stro. | |
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Carlos Colón who started in mid 1960s Puerto Rico and sons Carlito and Eddie (aka Primo). There's also his daughter and sister of Carlito and Eddie, Stacy Colón who wrestled, but retired before her brothers. And Carlito's and Eddie's cousin Orlando Colón, using the name Epico in the 50 states, who was in a tag team with Eddie/Primo and dominated the division. While not a wrestler, Carlos's brother José had an onscreen role in WWC. | |
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The Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters, Mio and Io Shirai. | |
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Eddie and Vickie's daughter Shaul was signed to a development contract with WWE and worked in FCW as a valet for the Ascension under the name Raquel Diaz before leaving the business for a time, returning to WWE developmental in NXT, leaving the business again, then returning via WOW and the US independent circuit before being pulled out by her family during COVID-19 due to health concerns. With the pandemic waning, she's since returned to the indies. | |
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A sister-sister pairing - Victoria and Christina Crawford. Victoria is Alicia Fox in WWE while Christina is Caylee Turner in FCW as well as ring announcer on NXT. | |
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After The Sheik perfected his gimmick and achieved fame in the 1940s, his followed him into the professional wrestling business as Captain Ed George, a babyface unaffiliated with his father. The Sheik's nephew wrestled as Sabu as both a babyface and a heel tagging with or being managed by his uncle. Sabu also married a Canadian bodybuilder who wrestled as Melissa Coates and seconded him as the valet Super Genie. | |
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Charlie Haas and his late brother Russ, The World's Greatest Tag Team. | |
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Luna was married to and raised children with WWE's Attitude Era vampire Gangrel. Also, her godfather was André the Giant. The Other Wiki mentions that she was buried at a ranch that he used to own; presumably, this is the same ranch where his cremains were scattered. | |
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CM Punk and A.J. Lee have been married since 2014. | |
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Monty Sopp, better known as Billy Gunn, has tagged with two of his sons in AEW as Gunn Club—first with older son Austin, and later with younger son Colten as well. The sons later split from their father and now tag team, first as The Gunn Club before changing to The Gunns. | |
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Garett Bischoff, son of infamous WCW president Eric Bischoff, was a much hated part of TNA in 2012, due to the undeserved amount of screen time he got. In short, Like Father, Like Son. | |
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The Andersons of Minnesota, for the most part, aren't related at all. Gene Anderson was the only real Anderson. "Brothers" Lars (Larry Heinimi) and Ole (Alan Rogowski) were college friends. "Nephew" Arn (Marty Lunde) resembled the "family" and happened to arrive in the NWA Mid-Atlantic area when Ole needed a tag-team partner. "Cousin" Ric Flair wasn't related to any of them, but was billed as a cousin to help get him over as a star. The only other legitimate Anderson is Gene's son Brad. The Carolina branch of the Anderson family (Pat, Rocky, and C.W.) all have a broad physical resemblance, but none are related. Clouding the issue somewhat is the fact that WWE's Ken Kennedy was actually born Ken Anderson; he was asked to change his name upon making the big time, so as to avoid confusion with the fictional family. When he was future endeavored by WWE, he joined TNA as "Ken Anderson", though nothing has been made of the name or possible Anderson family connections. Karl Anderson was originally billed as a member in the indies, which probably still holds true. Chad Allegra himself has no known relation to any of the above; he's just another bald wrestler with a full beard. |
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When The Giant (Paul "The Big Show" Wight) first showed up in WCW, they billed him as the Son of André. | |
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The Morton family was founded by referee Paul Morton. His son Ricky achieved greater fame as half of The Rock 'n' Roll Express and the namer of one of the most famous tag team tropes. Ricky's son Kerry now wrestles in the NWA. Ricky's cousin Todd also wrestled, sometimes teaming with Ricky. | |
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The Steiner Brothers are comprised of Robert "Rick Steiner" Rechsteiner and Scott [Rechsteiner].note At SummerSlam 1993 Rick's sister was at ringside and when interviewed accidentally broke Kayfabe and called him "Rob". Unsurprisingly this was her only appearance on a wrestling show Later on, Rick's son Bronson also became a professional wrestler under the ring name "Bron Breakker". | |
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Daffney Unger and her adopted daughter Jamie Lynn Senegal. | |
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From Korea, there is Rikidozan who had two sons that were pro wrestlers, Yoshi and Mitsuo Momota. Mitsuo's son Chikara also became a pro wrestler. | |
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The Barbarian has a niece named Lei'D Tapa who uses some of his signature moves (the Samoan Drop and the Kick of Fear). | |
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Katsuhisa Shibata of Tokyo Professional Wrestling and JWA, best known outside of Japan for his hair matches in EMLL before becoming a referee, has a famed son who briefly crossed over in mixed martial arts, Katsuyori Shibata. | |
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Dr. Karonte's son Myzteziz (or Caristico, formerly known as MÃstico in CMLL and Sin Cara in WWE), whose family also includes his brothers Astro Boy, Argos, Argenis and Mini Murder Clown, cousins Magnus, Ulises Jr and Alexis Salazar and their father, his uncle, former wrestler/CMLL booker/ring announcer Tony Salazar. | |
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The most tragic would be the Adkissons, better known as Texas's favorite sons, the Von Erich Family. Not counting Fritz's "brother" Waldo and Waldo's "nephew" Lance, the family consisted of father Jack (Fritz Von Erich), and sons Jack Jr., David, Kerry, Chris, Mike, and Kevin. Jack Jr. was electrocuted in childhood, while David died under mysterious circumstances in Japan in 1984 (either enteritis or drugs, depending on who you ask), and Kerry, Chris, and Mike all committed suicide in the years before Jack's death. Kerry's daughter, Lacey, wrestled for TNA. Kevin, the barefoot high-flyer, is the only survivor. He has four children, and does real estate as well as controlling old WCCW footage. Two of Kevin's sons, Ross and Marshall, have finished training as wrestlers. After working for Harley Race in his independent WLW promotion, and also working in Japan with Pro Wrestling Noah, they made their TNA debut at Slammiversary XII in 2014. They didn't last long in TNA, shuttling between Pro Wrestling Noah and various stateside indies for a few years. More recently, they signed a long-term deal with MLW in 2019, with said contract allowing them occasional Japanese appearances. They held MLW's tag team title from November 2019 to January 2021, dropping the belts to another family team in Los Parks (see below). |
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Mickie James and Nick Aldis have been married since 2015. | |
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Not to mention that Kane or Undertaker (don't ask) may or may not have murdered their parents in the first place... of course, at the same time, Kane's biological father was Paul Bearer. Better to just ignore that whole parental storyline, as Vince Russo wrote it. Just think of Taker and Kane as brothers and forget the rest. It's easier that way. Some poor writer actually had to make sense of the entire thing in an actual, published book, however. The late wrestling parody site Scoop This did a short article on the brothers' history, going through Kane's graduating from dental school, and his Kevin Nash infatuation. |
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Rikishi, himself the twin brother of Samuel Fatu (best known as "The Tonga Kid" and "Tama"), had twin sons in the aforementioned Jey and Jimmy Uso, formerly working as the "Samoan Soldiers" under their real names of Jonathan and Joshua Fatu and later as The Usos. | |
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When Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr. were in the WWF (and Dory was renamed Hoss Funk for some reason), they recruited unrelated brother Jimmy Jack Funk (actually Jesse Barr, listed above) who was billed as the "crazy" younger brother (this is with Terry on the team, mind you). The gimmick was so stupid that Terry left the company and Dory followed after a couple of months, leaving "Jimmy" to job out the rest of his contract. | |
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Cody Hall, son of Scott Hall, went to the New Japan dojo, going on to become part of the Bullet Club. | |
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The Undertaker and Kane are on-screen half-brothers... though sometimes, the bizarre retconning that's gone on about their family history may be thick enough to actually obscure this fact. A more recent example; SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero, to wear The Undertaker down before his PPV match with Edge, booked him against Kane. The match started with a lengthy sequence of arm-locks going nowhere, noted by the commentators as a consequence of the brothers not really wanting to hurt each other. All of this brotherly love makes little sense if one remembers that in recent times, they had a very character-driven match based on the fact that Kane had killed The Undertaker for becoming the American Badassnote Vince d. Taker in a "Buried Alive" match at Survivor Series 2003 as a result of Kane's interference. and forgetting his roots as a monster, and The Undertaker came back from the dead for revenge. It's pro wrestling; what're ya gonna do, accuse it of being unrealistic? Not to mention that Kane or Undertaker (don't ask) may or may not have murdered their parents in the first place... of course, at the same time, Kane's biological father was Paul Bearer. Better to just ignore that whole parental storyline, as Vince Russo wrote it. Just think of Taker and Kane as brothers and forget the rest. It's easier that way. Some poor writer actually had to make sense of the entire thing in an actual, published book, however. The late wrestling parody site Scoop This did a short article on the brothers' history, going through Kane's graduating from dental school, and his Kevin Nash infatuation. Interestingly, since Undertaker and Kane have been depicted as brothers on WWE programming for almost as long or longer than some fans have been alive, many are genuinely surprised to learn that Mark Calaway and Glenn Jacobs, the men portraying them, are not actually related. |
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Hulk did have one legitimate family member in wrestling. His nephew Horace wrestled for WCW. Horace Hogan is the cousin of the late Mike Awesome, though Aewsome isn't related to Hulk Hogan. | |
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Bob "Blackjack Mulligan" Windham and sons Barry and Kendall. Windham is also the father-in-law of wrestler Mike Rotunda, who is the poster child of Wrestling Doesn't Pay with no less than three "second job" gimmicks under his belt (Captain Mike, V. K. Wallstreet, and most famously IRS). Rotunda's own sons, Windham and Taylor, are also wrestlers. Under the name Husky Harris, Windham competed on NXT season 2 and was with the Nexus for a few months, and later became one of WWE's top heels as Bray Wyatt before his premature passing in 2023. Taylor had a short stint in WWE and dominated NXT as the unpopular Bo Dallas. Taylor also met his wife Sarah Bäckman during her brief (two months) stint in NXT as Shara. | |
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Chris Belkas who wrestled in the US South for the National Wrestling Association in the 1940s and the National Wrestling Alliance in the 50s, married Florida legend Sherrie Lee. They were the father and mother in laws to Super Star Billy Graham. Belkas's nephew wrestled in Canada as Ski Hi Lee. | |
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WWE commentator Jerry Lawler's sons have wrestled (Brian Christopher, who dropped his last name and became Attitude Era staple Grandmaster Sexay) and refereed (Kevin Lawler). Additionally, his cousin is the Honky Tonk Man (Wayne Ferris), and one of his numerous ex-wives was a WWF/E Diva for a while (Stacey "The Kat" Carter). | |
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Matt and Nick Massie, best known as The Young Bucks (and also as Matt and Nick Jackson), have been one of the most heralded tag teams on the indie scene since their 2004 debut, and became co-founders of All Elite Wrestling in 2019. They also wrestled in TNA for a while as Generation Me under the names Max and Jeremy Buck and are a part of Bullet Club. Their younger brother Malachi was also a wrestler and occasionally teamed with them before retiring from the business, their cousin Tab is also a wrestler, and Matt's wife Dana was AEW's chief marketing officer for a few years. | |
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Tommaso Ciampa has been married to Jessie Ward, a former Tough Enough II contestant and WWE stage manager, since 2013. | |
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As noted, the Anoa'i family of Samoa has any number of relations. The Anoa'i branches of the family tree start with The Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika Anoa'i). All three of Afa's sons are wrestlers (Samu, Afa Jr. (also known as Manu), and Lloyd (who wrestles as Alofa the Samoan Tank or L.A. Smooth, depending)). Afa's daughter, Monica, was married to Gary Albright before Albright's death. Sika's sons Matt and Joseph are also wrestlers, the former best known as The Hurricane's sidekick, Rosey, and the latter as The Shield's muscle and later the WWE's new poster boy Roman Reigns. Afa and Sika's two other siblings sired wrestlers — brother Junior's son Rodney wrestled as Yokozuna, and sister Vera Fatu's sons all wrestled (Sam as Tama, Solofa as many names, most famously Rikishi, and Eddie as Jamal then Umaga). Sam's son Jacob Fatu is signed with MLW. Rikishi's twin sons Jonathan and Joshua became a top tag team as Jimmy and Jey Uso, Rikishi's another son Joseph Fatu known as Solo Sikoa in NXT 2.0 and main roster. Samu's son Lance also became a wrestler. Afa also has a nephew who wrestles most notably in Europe as Black Pearl. James "Jimmy Snuka" Reiher is related to the Anoa'i family through marriage, as is his son Jimmy Snuka Jr. (formerly "Deuce" of the "Deuce N' Domino" tag-team, then a Legacy hopeful as Sim Snuka, before being released). And his daughter Sarona, who goes by the name Tamina in WWE and started out managing her cousins the Usos before playing a more active role in the Divas division. Closely related to the Anoa'is by friendship, but not blood, is the Maivia family. Father "High Chief" Peter considered Afa and Sika's father his blood brother, and the friendship has extended through the generations (at least back to 1953). Peter's wife Lia has been promoting wrestling in Hawai'i for years, while Peter and Lia's daughter Ata married "Soulman" Rocky Johnson. You may have heard of Rocky and Ata's son... Afa and Sika actually started out as ultra-mark Maivia fans in San Francisco who would threaten to beat up his heel opponents. Fearing a riot, promoter Roy Shire had Maivia befriend them, and sent them far, far away to be trained in wrestling. Maivia's real name is Pita Anderson. Early in his career, since "Anderson" didn't sound particularly Samoan, he was brought to the UK as a "brother" to longtime Samoan wrestler "Prince" Neff Maiava. The two met years later and became blood brothers and best of friends, and Neff's grandson Kaluka Maiava (a former linebacker for the NFL's Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders) considers himself a cousin to The Rock. The Anoa'i clan is actually so pervasive that from the formation of the WWF/E until mid-2009, there has always been at least one member in the promotion. And then, later that year, Rikishi's twin sons were signed to a developmental contract and became the Usos. Sarona Snuka/Tamina followed soon after. It also includes WWE female performers Naomi via marriage to Jimmy Uso and Nia Jax, who is The Rock's cousin. The Rock's daughter, Simone, began wrestling as Ava Raine in 2022. |
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Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis have been married since 2014. | |
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The Briscoe Brothers, best known in Ring of Honor, aren't related to the legendary Brisco Brothers, but both sets are legit brothers themselves. | |
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Dr. Wagner (Manuel González Rivera) had two wrestling sons, the currently active Dr. Wagner Jr. and the late Silver King/Silver Cain (whom movie fans will recognize as Ramses from Nacho Libre). Dr. Wagner Jr. has a son who wrestles as Dr. Wagner III (and sometimes El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.) with female wrestler Rossy Moreno meaning the Wagner family also includes (or has included) Rossy's sisters Cinthia, Esther and Alda, their brothers Mini Cibernetico and El Oriental and father Alfonso Moreno. | |
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Dory Funk and sons, who both became NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Dory Funk Jr. and Terry. Dory Funk's grandson, Dr. Dory Funk Jr., debuted on !Bang TV in 2010. | |
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The Finlay Family, David Finlay Sr. and his father were wrestlers in the Irish and British scene. David Sr's wife, Evelyn, was the back office manager and driving force behind the Northern Ireland Olympic Wrestling Association. David and Evelyn's son, David Jr. aka Fit Finlay would make a name for himself in Catch Wrestling Association, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, WCW and WWE. Their daughter, Wendy, was a referee in the business. Fit's ex-wife was wrestler and manager Princess Paula, and his son David III is the current leader of New Japan's Bullet Club. | |
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Jack Swagger's "father" made a pair of appearances in WWE, getting his ass kicked by Kane both times. Swagger's father was played by Jimmy Golden aka Bunkhouse Buck, mentioned above as being part of the (real) Fuller family. | |
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Boris Malenko (Lawrence Simon) and sons Dean and Joe. Carl Malenko (Carl Ognibene) was considered a stepbrother by Dean and Joe, but he wasn't related to them by blood. There's also Debbie Malenko and Chad Malenko (former TNA/ROH jobber Chad Collyer), who aren't related to the family but were allowed to take up the name after training under the Malenkos. | |
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Karrion Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux have been married since 2022. | |
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On The Amanda Show, there was a sketch involving a Nuclear Family all consisting of wrestlers. Fun fact: The father and son in this family were modeled after Goldust and The Blue Blazer, respectively. |
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The Blue Demon, one of the inspirations behind Spider-Man, and his son, Blue Demon Jr. | |
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Jonathan Good aka Jon Moxley aka Dean Ambrose and Renee Paquette aka Renee Young have been married since 2017. | |
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Christina Von Eerie and her brother, James. | |
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WWE's one-time "Million Dollar Man", Ted DiBiase, is the son of mid 1940s debuting wrestler Helen Hild and the stepson of wrestler "Iron" Mike DiBiase. Ted's three sons, Mike, Ted Jr. and Brett have recently gone into the wrestling business. Ted Jr. was a midcard staple in WWE, Mike wrestles independents, and Brett was in WWE's training fed FCW and made a one-off appearance at SummerSlam in 2009. | |
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Then, there are The Dudley Boys. Created as a running storyline gag in early ECW — the joke was that all the Dudleys had one father, a traveling salesman named Big Daddy Dudley, but each had a different mother — the family numbered nearly a dozen at one point. Three of them would go on to greater success: Bubba Ray (Mark LoMonaco), D-Von (Devon Hughes), and Spike (Matt Hyson). Now that Bubba Ray and D-Von are back in WWE, they're working under the Dudley name again; while they were in TNA, they had to use other names, as WWE owns the Dudley trademark. Instead, they took the name Team 3-D, a reference to their Finishing Move the Dudley Death Drop which was often referred to in short hand as the 3D, in TNA, as Brother Ray, Brother Devon, and Brother Runt (Hyson). Later, they retired the team, and LoMonaco turned heel (changing his name to "Bully Ray") by attacking Devon (who dropped the "Brother" part of his name). Runt didn't return to WWE along with Bubba Ray and D-Von. The Dudleys that got the most ring time were the three aforementioned - Bubba, D-Von and Little Spike Dudley. The supporting cast, if you will, included Big Dick Dudley, Chubby Dudley, Dances With Dudley, Dudley Dudley, Little Snot Dudley, Psycho Sam Dudley, Schmuck Dudley, Sign Guy Dudley, and Studley Dudley, their manager. In the WWF, Stacy Keibler acted as the "Duchess of Dudleyville". At one show, The Bushwhackers (Butch & Luke) were revealed to be their long-lost cousins. At ECW's second PPV, Hardcore Heaven 97, porn star Jenna Jameson also made an appearance as "Lady Dudley". |
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Jimmy Wang Yang's mysterious daughter Jazzy Yang made her debut right before her father retired. | |
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Vince's daughter Stephanie got her first company gig in the mid 80's as a teenager when she modeled t-shirts and other merchandise in the WWF catalog. She was first introduced on screen in the late 90's by being almost "sacrificed" by the Undertaker. She later married Paul "Triple H" Levesque, faked a pregnancy, divorced him, and has been Women's Champion. Offscreen, she was the CEO and Chairwoman before her resignation shortly after her father's return to the company, and is married to Triple H for real. The two have three daughters, Aurora Rose (who has "appeared" in a hilariously disturbing sketch at WrestleMania), Murphy Claire, born in 2008, and Vaughn Evelyn, born in 2010. | |
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During Hulk Hogan's AWA and NWA days, he regularly tag teamed with Ed Leslie. The two were promoted as brothers, sometimes using the names Terry & Ed Boulder, and sometimes Hulk & Dizzy Hogan. While not as brothers, Leslie also formed a tag team with Hogan in the WWF; the former was known as Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. Hulk did have one legitimate family member in wrestling. His nephew Horace wrestled for WCW. Horace Hogan is the cousin of the late Mike Awesome, though Aewsome isn't related to Hulk Hogan. |
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Corey Graves, one of WWE NXT's standouts and later a color commentator, has a brother who had a very short stint in the FCW developmental territory as Buddy Stetcher, and left a few months before Graves arrived. Graves has also been married with wrestler Carmella since 2022. | |
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Chavo's son Chavo Guerrero Jr. had a long, successful run in WWE and TNA. | |
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Flair's longtime stablemate Arn Anderson is not only a member of the fictional Anderson family, but has now been joined in the business by his son Brock, who also wrestles under the Anderson surname. Both are now in AEW, Arn as a producer and Brock as a wrestler. | |
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Eric Angle, brother of Kurt Angle, was also a professional wrestler, though Eric's career was much shorter - he never got called up from Developmental, and quit the business when he was released. | |
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Patriarch Vincent Kennedy was the behind-the-scenes AND onscreen Chairman and CEO of the company until 2022, returning in those roles in 2023note To sell the company to the parent company of UFC, a deal that was announced at WrestleMania 39 and finalized later that year. Vince was sort of Kicked Upstairs, as he was made a vice president in the new combined company (called TKO Holdings) and given a huge payoff in both cash and stock, but also (according to TKO Holdings CEO Ari Emanuel) completely removed from having any input in WWE's creative (now run by Triple H, see below), and wrestled on a semi-regular basis, having held both the WWE and revived ECW World Championships as well as being a former Royal Rumble winner. | |
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The Rhodes family, chiefly known for Virgil "Dusty Rhodes" Runnels, and sons Dustin "Goldust" Runnels and Cody Rhodes. Dusty is also the brother-in-law of wrestler Fred Ottman, also known as Typhoon, Tugboat, and The Shockmaster. Dustin's ex-wife Terri used to work for WWE under the name "Marlena", managing her ex-husband, and later, under her real name. Jerry Sags of the Nasty Boys is/was a brother-in-law of Dusty at some point. Cody's wife Brandi was an announcer in WWE going by the name Eden Stiles. After she and Cody left WWE, she began competing in the squared circle. | |
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Kyoko Kimura has a wrestler husband in Isao Kobayashi and a wrestler daughter in Hana Kimura. Kyoko and Hana even held the Artist Of STARDOM belts for Oedo~tai. | |
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As noted above, the Grahams have an interesting history. The "real" Graham appears to be Dr. Jerry Graham. Jerry later "adopted" Grady Johnson as "Crazy" Luke Graham. The Grahams then added Eddie Gossett as brother Eddie Graham, who'd go on to be the most successful wrestler and promoter in the fictional family. Wayne Coleman would later team with fellow Phoenix native Jerry in the Los Angeles territory as "Superstar" Billy Graham, on his way to becoming WWWF champion. Various sons and nephews of the Grahams have wrestled, with the most successful being Eddie's son, Mike, who wrestled mostly in Florida, and then promoted there after his father's suicide. | |
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Shaul eventually married Matthew Rehwoldt, better known as Aiden English of the Vaudevillains and Rusev Day fame. He was released in 2020, and after some stints in the indie circuit, in 2021 became part of Impact Wrestling's roster. | |
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Brian Pillman (middle name William, which as you'll see is significant) had a stepdaughter named Lexi Reed who got into wrestling. Sadly she was killed in a car crash in 2009 before she had a chance to even get noticed on the indy scene. More recently, his son Brian Zachary entered the business, working successively in CZW, MLW, and AEW as Brian Pillman Jr. before moving to NXT as Lexis King. | |
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Dick the Bruiser, his biological son Karl Afflis and his son-in-law Spike Huber, that latter of whom he won the WWA World Tag Team Titles with. His successor Dick the Bruiser Jr. is not actually his son, however. | |
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The evil Brahman Brothers Kei and Shu of Toryumon and Dragon Gate. | |
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At least, "most famous wrestling family without the last name of Guerrero or Guzmán." | |
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Edge was married to Alannah Morley, sister of Sean Morley aka Val Venis, from 2001-2004. Edge's eventual third marriage is with Beth Phoenix, whom he's married to since 2016. | |
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Rey Misterio Sr., who debuted in 1976, and Rey Misterio Jr. (now wrestling as Rey Mysterio), although they are uncle and nephew, rather than father and son. And, just to confuse matters, Rey Misterio Sr.'s son also wrestles under the same mask as El Hijo de Rey Misterio. To confuse matters even further, El Hijo de Rey Misterio briefly retired from professional wrestling, after which time Rey Misterio Sr. and Konnan introduced a new wrestler in May 2011 who also went by the name El Hijo de Rey Misterio (though his relationship to the Misterio family is unknown). The original El Hijo de Rey Misterio then returned in November of that year, wrestling under the name El Hijo de Rey Misterio I. We now have, in order of debut: Rey Misterio Sr.; Rey Mysterio; El Hijo de Rey Misterio I; and El Hijo de Rey Misterio. To confuse matters even FURTHER, the original El Hijo de Rey Misterio sometimes wrestles as Rey Misterio Jr. The Misterio/Mysterio family also includes El Hijo de Rey Misterio's other cousin Metalika and his uncle Super Astro. More recently, Rey Jr.'s real-life son Dominik Mysterio was involved in a few of his dad's WWE storylines in his childhood (though not as a wrestler), and started formal wrestling training in 2017. In 2020, Dominik was brought into an angle between his father and Seth Rollins and had his in-ring debut against Rollins at SummerSlam. Later that year, said angle was extended to include Dominik's younger sister Aalyah, though she has yet to be involved as a wrestler. In 2021, Rey and Dominik briefly held the SmackDown tag team belts, and Dom turned heel in 2022, briefly feuding with Rey and going on to become arguably the most effective heel in 2020s wrestling. The Misterio family almost included a fictional member - bookers considered making Dioncio Castellanos a member of the family, and even considered giving him the Rey Misterio Jr. gimmick. However, he ended up becoming Rey Misterio Jr.'s arch-rival Psicosis. | |
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Two of Kevin's sons, Ross and Marshall, have finished training as wrestlers. After working for Harley Race in his independent WLW promotion, and also working in Japan with Pro Wrestling Noah, they made their TNA debut at Slammiversary XII in 2014. They didn't last long in TNA, shuttling between Pro Wrestling Noah and various stateside indies for a few years. More recently, they signed a long-term deal with MLW in 2019, with said contract allowing them occasional Japanese appearances. They held MLW's tag team title from November 2019 to January 2021, dropping the belts to another family team in Los Parks (see below). | |
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It also includes WWE female performers Naomi via marriage to Jimmy Uso and Nia Jax, who is The Rock's cousin. | |
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Closely related to the Anoa'is by friendship, but not blood, is the Maivia family. Father "High Chief" Peter considered Afa and Sika's father his blood brother, and the friendship has extended through the generations (at least back to 1953). Peter's wife Lia has been promoting wrestling in Hawai'i for years, while Peter and Lia's daughter Ata married "Soulman" Rocky Johnson. You may have heard of Rocky and Ata's son... Afa and Sika actually started out as ultra-mark Maivia fans in San Francisco who would threaten to beat up his heel opponents. Fearing a riot, promoter Roy Shire had Maivia befriend them, and sent them far, far away to be trained in wrestling. Maivia's real name is Pita Anderson. Early in his career, since "Anderson" didn't sound particularly Samoan, he was brought to the UK as a "brother" to longtime Samoan wrestler "Prince" Neff Maiava. The two met years later and became blood brothers and best of friends, and Neff's grandson Kaluka Maiava (a former linebacker for the NFL's Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders) considers himself a cousin to The Rock. |
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The Flair family: Ric Flair, his two sons David and Reid, and daughter Ashley (younger than David, older than Reid). David Flair had a brief run in WCW as a manager/backstage type who trained part-time at WCW's Power Plant wrestling school as more of a hobby than out of any real desire to wrestle for a living. As WCW quickly plunged into it's early 2000's Audience-Alienating Era, he was pushed onto the card in actual matches long before he was ready to perform professionally. After WCW closed its doors, he had a mildly successful run in TNA and the independent circuit before retiring, and is today best remembered for his old TitanTron video. Younger son Reid was a highly decorated amateur wrestler in high school and college before making his professional debut in 2008. He later wrestled for a handful of NWA affiliates. Sadly, Reid passed away on March 29, 2013 at the age of 25 from a drug overdose. As for Ashley, she's now one of WWE's top female stars as Charlotte Flair, was married to British wrestler Thom Latimer from 2013-2015 and then to Andrade El �dolo since 2022. Ric's other daughter Megan (who made non-wrestling appearances on Monday Nitro) is married to Conrad Thompson, a mortgage broker and (more importantly for this topic) a host/moderator of several prominent wrestling podcasts and promoter of the intermittently held Starrcast fan convention in Nashville. He's also currently in possession of the original Big Gold Belt. Thompson organized Ric Flair's Last Match, an indy supershow held on July 31, 2022 in conjunction with Starrcast, in which Ric worked what he now claims will be his last match ever as part of a tag team with Andrade. | |
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Sammy Guevara and Tay Melo have been married since 2022. | |
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The aforementioned "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka and son Jimmy Jr. (formerly WWE's Deuce/Sim Snuka) and daughter Sarona (currently in the WWE as Tamina Snuka). | |
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Mercedes Varnado aka Sasha Banks aka Mercedes Moné has been married to retired wrestler and WWE costume designer Sarath Ton aka Mikaze since 2016. | |
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Chet and Bruce Tharpe; Chet was a ring announcer for Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) who brought Bruce into the business. Bruce would become a ring announcer and referee for CWF and briefly a pro wrestler in the '90s. Eventually Tharpe became president of the NWA for five years. | |
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John Morrison and Taya Valkyrie have been married since 2018. | |
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Roderick Strong and Marina Shafir have been married since 2018. | |
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Shunji Takano (Super Ninja in the AWA, Giant Zebra in Michinoku Pro Wrestling) and his older brother, George(who also wrestled under a mask as The Cobra). | |
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When the McMahons gathered in the ring for a family portrait, HHH came up too and demanded to be included. He didn't give a reason, merely saying that he "deserved" to be in any McMahon family portrait, and let the fans figure it out for themselves. Stephanie got into the act that time, kissing Triple H during the family portrait to supposedly "piss off [her] father". HHH, not to be one-upped, responded to the kiss with "Bye Steph, see ya at home! Uhhh... errr... I mean, your brother's a gnome!" | |
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