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* Second place probably goes to Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/SamiZayn, who both came up together in Quebec and have been basically inseparable ever since. Not only are they like brothers off camera but pretty much ''everything'' one of them has done on camera has somehow involved the other. If they're not tag team partners[[note]]As of this writing they're Wrestling/{{WWE}} Unified Tag Team Champions[[/note]] they're probably feuding with each other, and tearing the house down every night.

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* Second place probably goes to Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/SamiZayn, who both came up together in Quebec and have been basically inseparable ever since. Not only are they like brothers off camera but pretty much ''everything'' one of them has done on camera has somehow involved the other. If they're not tag team partners[[note]]As of this writing they're partners[[note]]They would win the Wrestling/{{WWE}} Unified Tag Team Champions[[/note]] Championship at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 39''[[/note]] they're probably feuding with each other, and tearing the house down every night.



* And from Wrestling/{{TNA}}, we have the Motor City Machine Guns, who have used this exact phrase (specifically, Alex Shelley in regards to Chris Sabin) to describe each other.

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* And from Wrestling/{{TNA}}, we have the Motor City Machine Guns, Wrestling/MotorCityMachineGuns, who have used this exact phrase (specifically, Alex Shelley in regards to Chris Sabin) to describe each other.



* Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin, aka Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam, have a very strong bond with each other; in fact, Charlie has said in interviews that, sometimes, he thinks that his deceased brother Russ sent Shelton to him as a replacement.

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* Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin, Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, aka Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam, have a very strong bond with each other; in fact, Charlie has said in interviews that, sometimes, he thinks that his deceased brother Russ sent Shelton to him as a replacement.
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* Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} [[UnrelatedBrothers aren't brothers in real life]], as they used to be billed, but they have been best friends since ''the sixth grade''. They went to junior high together, went to high school together, went to college together, trained for wrestling together, broke into the indies together, went into the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] together...Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Wrestling/{{TNA}} stint is the first time in their lives they weren't around each other constantly. The second being Edge's retirement. Christian ended up (temporarily) retiring a few years later and they spent the next couple of years doing everything together (including hosting episodes of ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]''), before their bodies healed up enough to let them come out of retirement (Edge in 2020, Christian in 2021). Then they separated for a third time when Christian opted to sign with AEW instead of staying with WWE.

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* Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} [[UnrelatedBrothers aren't brothers in real life]], as they used to be billed, but they have been best friends since ''the sixth grade''. They went to junior high together, went to high school together, went to college together, trained for wrestling together, broke into the indies together, went into the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] together...Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Wrestling/{{TNA}} stint is the first time in their lives they weren't around each other constantly. The second being Edge's retirement. Christian ended up (temporarily) retiring a few years later and they spent the next couple of years doing everything together (including hosting episodes of ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]''), before their bodies healed up enough to let them come out of retirement (Edge in 2020, Christian in 2021). Then they separated for a third time when Christian opted to sign with AEW instead of staying with WWE.WWE... until Edge left WWE to work in AEW under his legal name, Adam Copeland, in 2023.
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* Prior to HBK and HHH there was fellow Clique members Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who first met in WCW when they were put into a faction managed by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (the wrestler that would eventually become Wrestling/{{Raven}} was also a member). Hall (in the Razor Ramon gimmick) would help Nash get into the WWF (as Diesel), then the two famously went back to WCW to form the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder. Nash was understandably devastated when Hall passed away from a blood clot in 2022.

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* Prior to HBK and HHH there was fellow Clique members Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who first met in WCW when they were put into a faction managed by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (the wrestler that would eventually become Wrestling/{{Raven}} was also a member). Hall (in the Razor Ramon gimmick) would help Nash get into the WWF (as Diesel), then the two famously went back to WCW to form the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder. Nash was understandably devastated when Hall passed away from a blood clot in 2022.2022, and he commented that he spent more with Hall than anyone else in his entire life.
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* Prior to HBK and HHH there was fellow Clique members Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who first met in WCW when they were put into a faction managed by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (the wrestler that would eventually become Wrestling/{{Raven}} was also a member). Hall (in the Razor Ramon gimmick) would help Nash get into the WWF (as Dielsel), then the two famously went back to WCW to form the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder. Nash was understandably devastated when Hall passed away from a blood clot in 2022.

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* Prior to HBK and HHH there was fellow Clique members Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who first met in WCW when they were put into a faction managed by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (the wrestler that would eventually become Wrestling/{{Raven}} was also a member). Hall (in the Razor Ramon gimmick) would help Nash get into the WWF (as Dielsel), Diesel), then the two famously went back to WCW to form the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder. Nash was understandably devastated when Hall passed away from a blood clot in 2022.
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** Prior to HBK and HHH there was fellow Clique members Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who first met in WCW when they were put into a faction managed by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (the wrestler that would eventually become Wrestling/{{Raven}} was also a member.) Hall (in the Razor Ramon gimmick) would help Nash get into the WWF (as Dielsel), then the two famously went back to WCW to form the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder. Nash was understandably devastated when Hall passed away from a blood clot in 2022.
*** Wrestling/SeanWaltman, the fifth member of the Clique, has this sort of relationship with Nash and was probably even closer to Hall before Hall died.

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** * Prior to HBK and HHH there was fellow Clique members Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who first met in WCW when they were put into a faction managed by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (the wrestler that would eventually become Wrestling/{{Raven}} was also a member.) member). Hall (in the Razor Ramon gimmick) would help Nash get into the WWF (as Dielsel), then the two famously went back to WCW to form the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder. Nash was understandably devastated when Hall passed away from a blood clot in 2022.
*** ** Wrestling/SeanWaltman, the fifth member of the Clique, has this sort of relationship with Nash and was probably even closer to Hall before Hall died.



* Perhaps the most tragic example is Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, who were together for ''decades'', through Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}} and finally Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Eddie's death was something Chris never got over, and it eventually lead to that fateful weekend in Atlanta. Of the talented trio known as "The Holy Trinity" or "The New Japan 3", only Wrestling/DeanMalenko remains.

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* Perhaps the most tragic example is Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, who were together for ''decades'', through Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}} and finally Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Eddie's death was something Chris never got over, and it eventually lead likely contributed to that fateful weekend in Atlanta. Of the talented trio known as "The Holy Trinity" or "The New Japan 3", only Wrestling/DeanMalenko remains.
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** Prior to HBK and HHH there was fellow Clique members Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash, who first met in WCW when they were put into a faction managed by Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage (the wrestler that would eventually become Wrestling/{{Raven}} was also a member.) Hall (in the Razor Ramon gimmick) would help Nash get into the WWF (as Dielsel), then the two famously went back to WCW to form the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder. Nash was understandably devastated when Hall passed away from a blood clot in 2022.
*** Wrestling/SeanWaltman, the fifth member of the Clique, has this sort of relationship with Nash and was probably even closer to Hall before Hall died.
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* Second place probably goes to Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/SamiZayn, who both came up together in Quebec and have been basically inseparable ever since. Not only are they like brothers off camera but pretty much ''everything'' one of them has done on camera has somehow involved the other. If they're not tag team partners[[note]]As of this writing they're Wrestling/{{WWE}} Unified Tag Team Champions[[/note]] they're probably feuding with each other, and tearing the house down every night.
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* Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} [[UnrelatedBrothers aren't brothers in real life]], as they used to be billed, but they have been best friends since ''the sixth grade''. They went to junior high together, went to high school together, went to college together, trained for wrestling together, broke into the indies together, went into the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] together...Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Wrestling/{{TNA}} stint is the first time in their lives they weren't around each other constantly. The second being Edge's retirement. Christian ended up (temporarily) retiring a few years later and they spent the next couple of years doing everything together (including hosting episodes of ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]''), before their bodies healed up enough to let them come out of retirement (Edge in 2020, Christian in 2021). Then they separated for a third time when Christian opted to sign with AEW instead of staying with WWE.

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* Wrestling/{{Edge}} Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} [[UnrelatedBrothers aren't brothers in real life]], as they used to be billed, but they have been best friends since ''the sixth grade''. They went to junior high together, went to high school together, went to college together, trained for wrestling together, broke into the indies together, went into the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] together...Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Wrestling/{{TNA}} stint is the first time in their lives they weren't around each other constantly. The second being Edge's retirement. Christian ended up (temporarily) retiring a few years later and they spent the next couple of years doing everything together (including hosting episodes of ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]''), before their bodies healed up enough to let them come out of retirement (Edge in 2020, Christian in 2021). Then they separated for a third time when Christian opted to sign with AEW instead of staying with WWE.

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* Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} [[UnrelatedBrothers aren't brothers in real life]], as they used to be billed, but they have been best friends since ''the sixth grade''. They went to junior high together, went to high school together, went to college together, trained for wrestling together, broke into the indies together, went into the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] together...Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Wrestling/{{TNA}} stint is the first time in their lives they weren't around each other constantly. The second being Edge's retirement.

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* Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} [[UnrelatedBrothers aren't brothers in real life]], as they used to be billed, but they have been best friends since ''the sixth grade''. They went to junior high together, went to high school together, went to college together, trained for wrestling together, broke into the indies together, went into the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] together...Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Wrestling/{{TNA}} stint is the first time in their lives they weren't around each other constantly. The second being Edge's retirement. Christian ended up (temporarily) retiring a few years later and they spent the next couple of years doing everything together (including hosting episodes of ''RAW'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]''), before their bodies healed up enough to let them come out of retirement (Edge in 2020, Christian in 2021). Then they separated for a third time when Christian opted to sign with AEW instead of staying with WWE.
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* Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/ColtCabana.

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* Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/ColtCabana.Wrestling/ColtCabana used to be this. Unfortunately, their friendship got completely wrecked in the wake of the Chris Amann lawsuit thanks to a dispute over the legal fees, which culminated in them suing each other. Everything ended up being settled out of court, but the damage was done and not only have they not spoken since then, they refuse to speak ''of'' each other at all. Notably, when Punk was signed to Wrestling/{{AEW}} one year after Cabana was, the company made no active effort to associate them with each other at all, despite having no issues drawing on everyone else's history together on the indies.
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* Wrestling/{{Kane}} and Wrestling/TheBigShow have this type of relationship with a dash of FoeYay.

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* Perhaps the most tragic example is Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, who were together for ''decades'', through Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}} and finally Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Eddie's death was something Chris never got over, and it eventually lead to that fateful weekend in Atlanta. Of the talented trio known as [[FanNickname "The Holy Trinity" or "The New Japan 3"]], only Wrestling/DeanMalenko remains.

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* Perhaps the most tragic example is Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, who were together for ''decades'', through Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}} and finally Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Eddie's death was something Chris never got over, and it eventually lead to that fateful weekend in Atlanta. Of the talented trio known as [[FanNickname "The Holy Trinity" or "The New Japan 3"]], 3", only Wrestling/DeanMalenko remains.
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* Wrestling/{{Daffney Unger}} has called Wrestling/MsChif her better half (half of The Scream Queens, their tag team). [=MsChif=] has in turn said she can make Daffney's ASS whole. (Unger was scouting for another member of her All Star Squad).
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*Wrestling/AJLee [[Wrestling/{{Chickbusters}} and]] Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}}: [[http://twitter.com/CelesteBonin/status/99875840459943937 As Kaitlyn herself says]].
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** To a lesser extent, Punk and Wrestling/KofiKingston, as Punk has outright said that Kofi is his "road wife".
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* Wrestling/HulkHogan and Ed "Brutus Beefcake" Leslie.

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* Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake Ed "Brutus Beefcake" Leslie.Leslie]].
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* Before Shawn and Hunter, there was Wrestling/RicFlair and Arn Anderson, spending twenty-five years on and off together. First, there was [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the Four Horsemen]].

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* Before Shawn and Hunter, there was Wrestling/RicFlair and Arn Anderson, Wrestling/ArnAnderson, spending twenty-five years on and off together. First, there was [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the Four Horsemen]].
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* Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/ColtCabana.
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* Any tag team that stays together for a while and isn't related ends up being HeterosexualLifePartners. That is, [[HoYay unless they're]] [[AmbiguouslyGay something more]]...
* Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/ShawnMichaels and Wrestling/TripleH are probably wrestling's longest-running HeterosexualLifePartners (16 years and counting). Not that they haven't [[HoYay made us wonder about that first word]]. They've been enemies, friends, tag-team partners, and gone years without speaking, but they'll be the first to tell you that neither of them has a better friend than the other.
** According to Hunter's wife, [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Stephanie]], Shawn is Hunter's [[http://atlanta.sbnation.com/pro-wrestling/2011/4/2/2087732/wwe-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-2011-triple-h-shawn-michaels "road wife"]]. And read the rest of Hunter's speech, while you're at it - it's proof positive they're it for each other.
* Before Shawn and Hunter, there was Wrestling/RicFlair and Arn Anderson, spending twenty-five years on and off together. First, there was [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the Four Horsemen]].
* Wrestling/MattHardy and Wrestling/JeffHardy. Yes, they're brothers, but they're also a lot closer than most brothers their age would be...living within line of sight of each other, doing a webshow together, going out together, etc. They've built up a pretty substantial group of TrueCompanions around themselves as well, with the rest of the OMEGA crew in close proximity.
* And from Wrestling/{{TNA}}, we have the Motor City Machine Guns, who have used this exact phrase (specifically, Alex Shelley in regards to Chris Sabin) to describe each other.
* Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} [[UnrelatedBrothers aren't brothers in real life]], as they used to be billed, but they have been best friends since ''the sixth grade''. They went to junior high together, went to high school together, went to college together, trained for wrestling together, broke into the indies together, went into the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] together...Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Wrestling/{{TNA}} stint is the first time in their lives they weren't around each other constantly. The second being Edge's retirement.
* Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels and Wrestling/AJStyles. They're so close that they named their children after each other.
* Wrestling/{{Kane}} and Wrestling/TheBigShow have this type of relationship with a dash of FoeYay.
* Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin, aka Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam, have a very strong bond with each other; in fact, Charlie has said in interviews that, sometimes, he thinks that his deceased brother Russ sent Shelton to him as a replacement.
* Wrestling/TheMiz and Wrestling/JohnMorrison definitely qualified during their time as a tag team. When they were separated in the WWE Draft, one announcer even stated "The bromance is over!".
* Wrestling/HulkHogan and Ed "Brutus Beefcake" Leslie.
* Perhaps the most tragic example is Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, who were together for ''decades'', through Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}} and finally Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Eddie's death was something Chris never got over, and it eventually lead to that fateful weekend in Atlanta. Of the talented trio known as [[FanNickname "The Holy Trinity" or "The New Japan 3"]], only Wrestling/DeanMalenko remains.
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