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* The Guerrero family began with father Salvadore "Gori" Guerrero. Gori's four sons would all wrestle ([[Eddie Guerrero|Eddie]], who passed away in 2005, Chavo, Hector, and Mando). Chavo's son Chavito (Chavo Jr.) was formerly employed by WWE. 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. Eddie and Vickie's daughter Shaul is signed to a development contract with WWE and works in FCW as a valet for The Ascension under the name Raquel Diaz. Herlinda Guerrero, wife of Gori and mother of his children, had three brothers who wrestled: Enrique, Mario, & Sergio Llanes. Enrique's son Javier was also an excellent wrestler.
* AWA founder Verne Gagne's son Greg wrestled (pretty much only for his father, as Greg was said to look more like an accountant than a wrestler), and daughter Kathy did TV work while married to wrestler Larry Zbyszko (born Larry Whistler, he adopted the legendary wrestling family name from two 1930's brothers).
* WWE's one-time "Million Dollar Man", [[Ted
* Robert Fuller, who later became Col. Parker of "Stud Stable" fame, has a brother, father and grandfather who were in the wrestling business.
* The Vachon family started in the NWA, and later, the AWA with brothers Butcher (Paul) and Mad Dog (Maurice) and their sister Vivian (er... Vivian). Paul's daughter Gertrude is probably the most well-known for her stint in the 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.
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* Fuerza and Juventud Guerrera.
* [[Ric Flair]] his two sons, David and 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 [[Dork Age]], 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. Younger son Reid was a highly decorated amateur wrestler in high school and college before making his professional debut in 2008. He's since wrestled for a handful of [[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA]] affiliates.
* Rey Mysterio Sr. and [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.|Jr.]], although they are uncle and nephew, rather than father and son. And, just to confuse matters, Rey Mysterio Sr.'s son also wrestles under the same mask as El Hijo de Rey Mysterio.
* Mexican icon [[El Santo]] ("The Saint") wrestled professionally for over forty years and starred in over fifty films in his career, becoming an icon to the people of Mexico ''(think of [[Bret Hart]] and his status in Canada, plus the street cred of being the closest thing there is to an honest-to-God [[The Cape|superhero]])''. His son, El Hijo del Santo ("The Son of the Saint"), made his debut shortly before his father's retirement in 1982 and has become almost as popular, still competing after nearly thirty years. He has even had popular matches with contemporary Mexican stars who've attained fame north of the border, including [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]] and [[Eddie Guerrero]], and is probably one of the best wrestlers in the world who has never made an appearance in the WWE or other American promotions.
* 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]].
* Steve Corino, former ECW and NWA World Champion (after the glory days of both titles), and his teenaged son Colby. At 15, Colby holds titles in Japan and the Northeast (unsurprisingly, in areas where his father is heavily involved on the booking side).
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* Another wrestling clan who blended real and fictional relations were the Garvins and their associates. The original Garvin tag team consisted of fictional brothers Ronnie (Roger Barnes) and Terry (Terry Joyal). Joining them a few years later was a third "brother", Jimmy Garvin (James Williams), who in real life was actually Roger Barnes' stepson. Since they were only seven years apart in age, though, it was possible to pass them off as brothers on the screen. Later in his career, Jimmy Garvin would be managed by his real-life cousin Sunshine (Valerie French), though their relationship was never revealed to the audience. Sunshine was later replaced as Jimmy's manager by Precious (Patti Williams), who is his real-life wife. If that isn't already tangled enough, Sunshine during her stint with WCCW was also given a fictional relative, her "aunt" Stella Mae French (Tanya West).
* Then, there are the Dudleys. Created as a running storyline gag in early ECW -- the joke was that all the Dudleys had one father, a traveling salesman named Willy Loman 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). Unfortunately, none of the Dudleys are currently using the name, as they all work for [[TNA]] and [[WWE]] owns the Dudley copyright. Instead, they are currently Team 3-D in TNA, as Brother Ray, Brother Devon, and Brother Runt (Hyson).
** The Dudleys that got the most ring time were the three aforementioned - Bubba, D-Von and [[Fun
*** At one PPV, The Bushwhackers (Butch & Luke) were revealed to be their long-lost cousins. Jenna Jameson also made an appearance as "Lady Dudley".
* Also noted above were two fictional Von Erichs. Jack Adkisson made Walter Sieber into Waldo Von Erich when he needed a tag-team partner, and later turned nondescript rookie Ricky Vaughn into Waldo's "son" Lance Von Erich when injuries and deaths depleted the real Adkisson family. What made Lance most notable ([[There Is No Such Thing
* The McMahons, as their entry notes, play a fake wrestling family based somewhat on their reality. Vince plays himself up as much more [[Card-Carrying Villain|arrogant and evil]], constantly cheating on Linda with a string of divas. Shane and Stephanie play [[Rich Bitch|conniving rich brats]] who hate their father and [[Schemer|constantly scheme against him]] - except, of course, when they team back up with him. Linda rarely shows up, and if she does it's usually just to act disgusted with whatever Vince has done lately -- in the fake McMahon family, Vince and Linda seem to be separated.
** They're married in-storyline; Linda's just very... forgiving.
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*** [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|Seven years]], actually.
*** You seem to have missed a joke, according to logic in WWE, you're supposed to forget about anything that happened 3 months ago, unless you are specifically reminded about it on-air.
** During that long period of HHH being a member of the real McMahon family but not the fake version, he seemed to take a nearly unholy glee in bending [[Kayfabe]] nearly to the breaking point by [[Leaning
*** When Stephanie was pregnant for the first time -- after their [[Kayfabe]] divorce -- HHH got in the ring and called that fact out, completely in character... and then [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ePO8GEB570 went on to wonder] at the identity of the father and his no-doubt prodigious sexual equipment.
*** 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!"
*** HHH even managed to pull this once when he wasn't there. When he had to miss an episode of RAW because Stephanie was giving birth to their second child, his DX partner [[Shawn Michaels]] (HBK) explained that HHH wasn't there because he was secretly following the McMahon's (whom DX was feuding with at the time) and added that he thought HHH had some inside information on this "baby business". He finished with a camera close-up during which he said that between him and the fans, he thought HHH knew who the father was.
* [[The Undertaker]] and [[Kane (
** 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.
*** Some poor writer actually had to make sense of the entire thing in an actual, published book, however.
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