Unrelated Brothers: Difference between revisions

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** 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 fued.

* In 1991, Tom Burton entered the GWF and was rechristened Tom Davis to form the Dirty Davis Brothers with established star Mike Davis.

* While working in Florida in the mid-1980s, the legendary Dory 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.

* Ron and Jimmy Garvin often teamed in the NWA; sometimes they were billed as brothers, sometimes as simply "The Garvins". In real life, neither is named Garvin, but Ron ''is'' Jimmy's stepfather. Their other brother Terry Garvin who was the [[Unusual Euphemism|President, Vice-President, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer of the Terry Garvin School of Self Defense]] was not really related to them at all.

* Arn and Ole Anderson were billed as almost every possible familial combination, including brothers, but usually uncle and nephew; they are unrelated. In fact, of the four Andersons—Gene, Lars, Ole, and Arn—only Gene is even named Anderson. Gene had a son named Brad Anderson, who never even got pushed as part of the Anderson Family.

* Axl and Ian Rotten, whose pairing as brothers began in the GWF in 1992 and continues to this day.

* In 1994, [[WCW]] competitor The Equalizer was "revealed" as Dave Sullivan, the brother of veteran wrestler Kevin Sullivan.

* 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.

* After the British Bulldogs split up in the late 1980s, the Dynamite Kid competed in Japan, where he teamed with Johnny Smith under the pretense that Johnny was former partner Davey Boy Smith's brother; he was not.

* Early in Tommy Dreamer's career, he changed his name to T. D. Madison and teamed with G. Q. Madison in IWCCW.

* The Dupps—Puck Dupp, Jack Dupp, Bo Dupp, Stan Dupp, and sister Fluff Dupp—are, respectively, Marty Garner, Mike Maverick, Murray Happer, Trevor Murdoch, and Seven Briggs (and are/were completely unrelated).

* Neither are Paul Burchill and Katie Lea.

* Michel Pigeon debuted in Calgary in 1968 as Jos LeDuc, the brother of established Canadian star Paul LeDuc.

* Early in his career, Buddy Roberts of the Fabulous Freebirds competed as Dale Valentine, brother of the legendary Johnny Valentine.

* [[Dragon Gate]] wrestler Genki Horiguchi had a brother named Hiromi. During the "Toryumon split" (look it up, too much to explain here), Genki stayed in DG and Hiromi went with Toryumon. It wasn't revealed they were only kayfabe brothers until years later. Hiromi still uses the Horiguchi name.

* Parodied on ''[[Homestar Runner]]''. The Brothers Strong do not look at all similar, but it later turns out they really are brothers.

* The Amazing Red and Crimson in [[TNA]].

* 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.

== Variations (unrelated cousins) ==

 

* [[Ric Flair]] was a cousin of the Andersons (see above) during the early years of their affiliation in the NWA.

* In [[WCW]], Tommy and Johnny Rich really were cousins. Davey Rich (aka Davey Haskins) was not.

* Hillbilly Jim and his "relatives" Cousin Luke, Cousin Junior and Uncle Elmer.

* Lance Von Erich, the "cousin" of the better-known Von Erich brothers (Kevin, Kerry, et al.), was not a Von Erich at all. He was billed as the son of Waldo Von Erich (see above), who was also unrelated.

== Inversions (legitimate--but unacknowledged--brothers) ==

 

* Steve Armstrong competed in [[WCW]] in the early 1990s, primarily as half of the Southern Boys (aka Young Pistols) tag team with Tracy Smothers. During this time, his brother Brad Armstrong portrayed a number of masked characters, such as Baddstreet, [[Captain Ersatz|Arachnaman]], and The Freedom Fighter; each of these could be considered an example of unacknowledged brothers, as none of these characters was ever identified as Brad. On one notable occasion, the 1991 Great American Bash, the team of Dustin Rhodes, Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong defeated the Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin, Michaels Hayes, and the masked Baddstreet, Brad Armstrong); needless to say, the relationship between Steve Armstrong and Baddstreet was not mentioned.

* Joe and John Laurinaitis (better known as Road Warrior Animal and Johnny Ace, 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 makes that prospect unlikely.

** The relationship has now been acknowledged by WWE. [[CM Punk]] has called John Laurinitis, now [[Insistent Terminology|WWE Executive Vice President of Talent Relations]], out 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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