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Catherine Joy "C.J." Perry (born March 24, 1985), better known by her ring name Lana, is Rusev's valet and wife. She is a former model and actress turned professional wrestling figure.

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Catherine Joy "C.J." Perry (born March 24, 1985), better known by her ring name Lana, is Rusev's valet and wife.ex-wife. She is a former model and actress turned professional wrestling figure.


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Miro and Perry would amicably split after 7 years of marriage in winter of 2023 with the latter hoping to remain friends and work professionally again someday.
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Turns out that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church uses the revised Julian calendar instead of the traditional version, so that church observes Christmas on December 25.


* SignificantBirthDate: With Miro's gimmick as "God's favourite champion", the fact that he was (legitimately!) born on Christmas Day is icing on the cake.[[note]]Interestingly, his homeland of Bulgaria observes the public holiday of Christmas on December 25, despite most of its population belonging to [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity a church]] which religiously observes the holiday on January 7.[[/note]]

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* SignificantBirthDate: With Miro's gimmick as "God's favourite champion", the fact that he was (legitimately!) born on Christmas Day is icing on the cake.[[note]]Interestingly, his homeland of [[note]]While Bulgaria observes is a mostly UsefulNotes/{{Orthodox|Christianity}} country, its branch of the public holiday Orthodox Church uses the revised Julian calendar instead of the traditional version, meaning that Christmas falls on December 25, despite most 25 instead of its population belonging to [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity a church]] which religiously observes the holiday on January 7.7 as in several other Orthodox countries.[[/note]]
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* SignificantBirthDate: With Miro's gimmick as "God's favourite champion", the fact that he was (legitimately!) born on Christmas Day is icing on the cake.[[note]]Interestingly, despite his homeland of Bulgaria being mostly [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity Eastern Orthodox]], in which Christmas is religiously observed on January 7, the public holiday of Christmaas is observed on December 25.[[/note]]

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* SignificantBirthDate: With Miro's gimmick as "God's favourite champion", the fact that he was (legitimately!) born on Christmas Day is icing on the cake.[[note]]Interestingly, despite his homeland of Bulgaria being mostly observes the public holiday of Christmas on December 25, despite most of its population belonging to [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity Eastern Orthodox]], in a church]] which Christmas is religiously observed observes the holiday on January 7, the public holiday of Christmaas is observed on December 25.7.[[/note]]
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Interesting sidelight on his birth date... December 25 isn't the religious Christmas for most Bulgarians, but is the public Christmas.


* SignificantBirthDate: With Miro's gimmick as "God's favourite champion", the fact that he was (legitimately!) born on Christmas Day is icing on the cake.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: When [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose Jon Moxley]] took a break from wrestling to attend treatment for his alcoholism, Miro took his place in the AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament and its related storyline. This turned out to be quite fortunate in keeping the gist of the angle the same: Jon was portrayed in the tournament as displaying a brutal streak in tearing through babyfaces on his way to the finals. Miro fills that same role quite nicely without needing to completely overhaul the tournament's booking.

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* SignificantBirthDate: With Miro's gimmick as "God's favourite champion", the fact that he was (legitimately!) born on Christmas Day is icing on the cake.
cake.[[note]]Interestingly, despite his homeland of Bulgaria being mostly [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity Eastern Orthodox]], in which Christmas is religiously observed on January 7, the public holiday of Christmaas is observed on December 25.[[/note]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: When [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose Jon Moxley]] Wrestling/JonMoxley took a break from wrestling to attend treatment for his alcoholism, Miro took his place in the AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament and its related storyline. This turned out to be quite fortunate in keeping the gist of the angle the same: Jon was portrayed in the tournament as displaying a brutal streak in tearing through babyfaces on his way to the finals. Miro fills that same role quite nicely without needing to completely overhaul the tournament's booking.
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* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]: She would make her AEW debut by whacking Powerhouse Hobbs with a chair to save her husband.

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* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]: ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Or rather, wife. She would make her AEW debut by whacking Powerhouse Hobbs with a chair to save her husband.

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At ''All Out 2023'' Perry would debut in AEW during Miro 's match with Powerhouse Hobbs.

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At ''All Out 2023'' Perry would debut in AEW during Miro 's match with saving her husband from Powerhouse Hobbs.


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* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Wife]]: She would make her AEW debut by whacking Powerhouse Hobbs with a chair to save her husband.

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At ''All Out 2023'' Perry would debut in AEW during Miro 's match with Powerhouse Hobbs.



** As Miro: "The Best Man".

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** As Miro: "The Best Man".Man", "God's Favorite Champion", "The Redeemer"
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* LoveTriangle:
** In 2015 they entered one with Dolph Ziggler and [[TheExsNewJerkass Summer Rae]].
** In late 2016, [[Wrestling/EnzoAndCass Enzo Amore]] and Lana began to display attraction to each other, but that ended up [[HoneyTrap being a trap]].
** They entered another one in 2019 with Bobby Lashley (which even featured a segment of [[BlackIsBiggerInBed Lana and Lashley in bed]]).

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Interestingly this applies to both wrestlers towards the beginning of their WWE runs.
** Rusev initially wrestled barefoot during his heel run and didn't start wearing shoes until around the time he joined the League of Nations.
** In 2015 the couple entered a LoveTriangle storyline with Wrestling/DolphZiggler. One of the recurring parts of the story was that whenever Lana and Wrestling/SummerRae were ringside as valets, they would always inevitably end up throwing off their heels and beating each other to a pulp.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: He used to wear UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts-style ankle wraps instead. Averted after returning from precisely an ankle injury in July 2015, [[spoiler:which in storyline were given to him by new girlfriend Summer Rae.]]
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* HuskyRusskie: A Bulgarian example, but loyal to Mother Russia nonetheless. Despite having long since abandoned the Soviet gimmick by that point, Rusev actually began to embody this trope ''more'' after his mid-2018 HeelFaceTurn, shedding his previous intense, brutish persona for a classically lovable, jovial one more closely resembling [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Zangief]] than Ivan Drago.

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* HuskyRusskie: A Bulgarian example, but loyal to Mother Russia nonetheless. Despite having long since abandoned the Soviet gimmick by that point, Rusev actually began to embody this trope ''more'' after his mid-2018 HeelFaceTurn, shedding his previous intense, brutish persona for a classically lovable, jovial one more closely resembling [[VideoGame/StreetFighter [[Franchise/StreetFighter Zangief]] than Ivan Drago.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Interestingly this applies to both wrestlers towards the beginning of their WWE runs.
** Rusev initially wrestled barefoot during his heel run and didn't start wearing shoes until around the time he joined the League of Nations.
** In 2015 the couple entered a LoveTriangle storyline with Wrestling/DolphZiggler. One of the recurring parts of the story was that whenever Lana and Wrestling/SummerRae were ringside as valets, they would always inevitably end up throwing off their heels and beating each other to a pulp.

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* {{Sexophone}}: Her entrance music is a saxophone theme and she's a MsFanservice all-around, including her ring gear.

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* SensualSlavs: Was alluded to during her heel run (most notably by the Rock on the January 25th, 2016 edition of Raw), before she turned face and ditched the accent.
* {{Sexophone}}: Her entrance music is a saxophone theme and she's a MsFanservice all-around, including her ring gear.gear.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She was the only female member of Rusev Day.


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* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: During their time as Rusev Day: Lana was the beauty, Aiden English was the brains, and Rusev was naturally the brawn.
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* BareYourMidriff: During her time as Wrestling/DolphZiggler's girlfriend from ''Wrestling/SummerSlam'' until she got back together with Rusev, she wore a lacy white belly shirt and -jacket that showed off her midriff. She returned to this outfit with a new colour scheme after hooking up with Bobby Lashley.
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* ShesGotLegs: Her outfits almost always show them in some way (and her non-wrestling ones further emphasize them with the addition of high heels). In fact, one of her fan nicknames is "Lana Del Legs".
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* TheArtifact: The name of his submission finisher, the "Game Over", fits his early PopCulturedBadass gimmick well, less so [[ReligiousBruiser The Redeemer]].

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* TheArtifact: The name of his submission finisher, the "Game Over", fits his early PopCulturedBadass [[PopCulturedBadass "gamer"]] gimmick well, but less so as [[ReligiousBruiser The Redeemer]].

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