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  • WWE wrestler Triple H dated Chyna for most of The '90s, and then got himself paired with Stephanie McMahon in an angle in late 1999, leading to her Establishing Character Moment/Moral Event Horizon Face–Heel Turn. A few months after defeating Ivory for the WWE Women's Title at WrestleMania X-7 in 2001, Chyna was unexpectedly written out of the show and quietly pushed out the door, apparently due to tensions between herself and Stephanie. In 2003, Triple H and Stephanie got married in real life. Whether his marriage is helping or hurting the company is heavily debated among fans.
    • Chyna also dated Sean "X-Pac" Waltman for a time several years later.
    • Notable that Triple H and Stephanie went through their entire on-screen relationship from start to finish before they began to date in real life. In one DVD interview, Triple H half-jokingly says that one reason for their happy marriage is that they got to do a dry run before the real thing.
  • Debra McMichael was married to Steve McMichael before Steve got into Professional Wrestling, but then divorced him and got involved with Jeff Jarrett, then "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (whom she later married, and divorced)
  • Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth are one of the most famous classic WWF examples, though they are also a subversion as they were married in 1984 before they worked together in WWF where they were presented as a couple. Their in-character in-ring wedding took place at Summerslam 1991. They divorced in 1992.
  • (In)Famously, Chris Benoit and his wife, Nancy. They fell in love during an angle where they were having an affair behind the back of her then-husband, Kevin Sullivan - an angle Sullivan pitched.
    • Kayfabe being what it was back then, this angle involved Chris and Nancy being seen at the same clubs, eating at the same restaurants, and even staying in the same hotel rooms, appearing to all the world as though they were the genuine article. The fact that they hooked up for real probably made Kevin Sullivan the only wrestler to ever be duped by his own angle. And given the... unpleasantness of a few years back, not a few conspiracy theorists armed with very-coincidental-but-still-interesting evidence have suggested that Sullivan may have been involved in the incident and staged it to look like a murder-suicide on Benoit's part. Booking his cheating wife and the man who stole her out of the picture, as it were.
  • Eddie Guerrero was married to Vickie Guerrero until his tragic death in 2005. Vickie only became a significant on-screen character after her husband's death, developing into a hated heel manager in WWE, a character that she later played in AEW as well.
  • Matt Hardy was Amy "Lita" Dumas's boyfriend both on-screen and off, but she cheated on him in Real Life with Adam "Edge" Copeland (who cheated on his wife, thus breaking up his second marriage in barely five years. The first was to Sean "Val Venis" Morley's sister Alannah. WWE had intended to make an angle out of that, but it was scrapped after Val reportedly had taken too long to come back from a neck injury). You know what happened...
    • Matt later dated and married Reby Sky, with whom he has four children.
    • Adam "Edge" Copeland began dating Beth Phoenix in 2011. They've since had two children together and got married in 2016.
  • Brock Lesnar (who had a fiancee and baby at home) met Sable during his 2003 run on SmackDown. Today, they are married. And before that, Sable was married to Marc Mero, though they met before she got into the wrestling business.
  • Drew McIntyre and Tiffany (Taryn Terrell) married in 2010, though they divorced after a year.
  • Frankie Kazarian and Traci Brookshaw started dating in 2006 and got married in 2010. They have one child together.
  • The Undertaker married Sara in 2000, she became an on-screen character in 2001. They divorced in 2007, he later married Michelle McCool in 2010.
  • John Morrison and Melina (on and off). They met during auditions for the third season of WWE Tough Enough (Morrison made it; Melina didn't, but she eventually got signed anyway), and stayed together for over a decade before finally calling it quits in 2015.
    • Morrison later met, dated and married Kira Forster (known as Taya Valkyrie and WWE NXT's Franky Monet) who he met on AAA and Lucha Underground.
  • Billy Kidman and Torrie Wilson first got together in WCW after becoming a couple on-screen, then got married while they were in WWE, where they were never an on-screen couple (at their insistence). They have since divorced.
  • CM Punk dated Daffney Unger and later Traci Brooks during his time in Ring of Honor. Then, while in OVW, he dated Maria Kanellis, but they split up due to WWE moving them to two separate brands (there are also rumors of him having an affair with Kelly Kelly around this time). Then he briefly dated Lita. Then he started a long term relationship with Beth Phoenix, which ended by 2011. Punk also reportedly had a fling with Mickie James and in 2013 started dating A.J. Lee. They got married in 2014.
  • Before becoming a full-time actor, Batista seemed to have dated almost as many coworkers as CM Punk, having had brief relationships with Melina, Kelly Kelly, and Rosa Mendes.
  • In TNA/Impact, there's Jeff Jarrett and Karen Angle, Kurt Angle's wife. After Karen's divorce from Kurt, she married Jeff (who lost his last wife, Jill, to cancer) in real life.
  • The Miz and Maryse got married in 2014 and have since had two daughters.
  • The entire two-year feud between Tommy Dreamer and Raven in 1995-1997 was fueled by the simple premise of Raven hating Dreamer going back to when they were kids and Dreamer had been mean to Beulah McGillicutty when she was the fat girl at summer camp. Beulah debuted as a Heel at ECW Hostile City Showdown in April 1995. At House Party 96, January 5, announcer Joey Styles was trying to conduct an in-ring interview with Beulah and Raven's flunkies Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie in which Beulah announced she was "pregnant." Raven proceeded to beat up Stevie and the Meanie until Beulah said, "It's Tommy's!," thus turning herself Face. Dreamer ran in and beat up Raven, including piledriving him on a STOP sign and a blueberry pie. Dreamer and Beulah would remain a couple on-screen and off until she left in Summer 1998 after The Dudley Boys broke her neck with a Dudley Death Drop. Dreamer, real name Thomas Laughlin, and Francine (Fournier), Beulah (Trisa Hayes)'s Arch-Enemy both on-screen and off, would have a relationship offscreen until Laughlin apparently changed his mind and went back to Hayes. Reportedly, Fournier was angry enough about this that Laughlin and Hayes had to have extra security at their wedding. This was what Joey was referring to when he said that Dreamer had "scorned" Francine, following Francine's interference in the Dreamer/Sandman-Dudley Boys main event at ECW One Night Stand, June 12, 2005.
  • Bryan Danielson (then better known by his WWE name of Daniel Bryan) and Brie Bella got married days after Wrestlemania XXX. They have two children together.
  • John Cena was dating the other Bella Twin (Nikki). He proposed to her in the ring at WrestleMania 33, she accepted, but the two would split up months later.
    • Cena also dated Victoria for roughly a month back when they were both in developmental in 2002 while her marriage was on a break. The relationship ended when they both got to the main roster.
  • In his autobiography A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, Chris Jericho claimed to have dated Kimona Wanalaya while in ECW in 1996 and two unidentified members of the Nitro Girls (a dance troupe who would entertain the crowds between matches and going into and coming out of commercial breaks on WCW Monday Nitro from 1997-1999), though none of these situations carried over into angles.
  • Ivory dated Shane "Hurricane" Helms offscreen in 2001 when he came in from WCW, the year she turned 40 and he was 27.
  • Mickie James and Nick Aldis married and have had a son together. She was also previously engaged to Kenny Dykstra (of the Spirit Squad). It should be noted that she was seven years older than Dykstra at the time, who himself is only a year older than Magnus.
    • In addition to the rumored fling with Punk, she is also rumored to have had an affair with John Cena whilst she was engaged to Dykstra and while Cena was still married. Kenny Dykstra confirmed as much during the media whirlwind over Cena's divorce in 2012, though both Cena and James have openly denied it. Dykstra also alleged that the end of the relationship was responsible for both the end of his push and his eventual release, and James being switched to WWE SmackDown in 2009.
  • Jimmy Uso and Naomi got married in 2014.
  • Ron Killings had dated Jacqueline for a time.
  • Rusev and Lana are married as well. Before the marriage, their relationship resulted in some nonsensical Real Life Writes the Plot moments in kayfabe when WWE tripped over themselves thinking they had to respond to a TMZ report that the pair had announced their engagement (as in-universe Lana had betrayed Rusev to be with Dolph Ziggler at the time, while Summer Rae had paired off with Rusev, which got completely thrown out of the window when the TMZ story hit). You can read the bafflingly messed-up story here.
  • Ric Flair's daughter Charlotte was married to TNA star Bram, and was formerly married to an independent wrestler who worked with her brother Reid. She later married Andrade El Ídolo.
  • Angel Williams used to date Paul London, and was married to Davey Richards of the American Wolves from 2015 to 2017.
  • Jimmy Jacobs and Becky Bayless in CZW.
  • Pepper Parks and Cherry Bomb (Impact Wrestling's Allie), a.k.a The Butcher and The Bunny from All Elite Wrestling have been married since 2013.
  • Velvet Sky dated Bully Ray, and had previously dated Gregory Helms and Chris Sabin.
  • Jon Moxley dated and later married WWE interviewer/commentator Renee Young. In early 2017, while he was performing in WWE as Dean Ambrose, he abruptly asked her to marry him, and they tied the knot the night he proposed. They have one daughter together.
  • Wade Barrett dated Alicia Fox for two years.
  • In a rare subversion for a wrestler/wrestler relationship, Natalya Neidhart and husband Tyson Kidd. In spite of working together in several different promotions before making it to the WWE together, wrestling ultimately wasn't the impetus for Nattie and TJ's relationship; they had known each other since childhood, and were together for well over a decade before they finally got married.
  • The nude photo scandal in February 2015 revealed that Seth Rollins was having an affair with NXT Diva Zahra Schreiber — while both were reportedly engaged (Seth's then-fiancee, and girlfriend of six years, was in fact partially responsible for said scandal). The only reason he wasn't punished was because of Triple H, though his new girlfriend did eventually get the shaft six months later, ironically for something that had occurred before she had even met Rollins. They continued dating afterwards for a bit before breaking up in February 2016 to little fanfare.
    • In May 2019, Rollins and Becky Lynch publicly confirmed they were dating (they had actually begun doing so shortly after the 2019 Royal Rumble — coincidentally, both won their respective matches), and they got engaged that August. A year later the couple had a daughter, and they got married in 2021.
  • Matt Cardona and Tenille Dashwood/Emma were together for about a year. Cardona is now married to Chelsea Green/Laurel Van Ness, and Dashwood is engaged to Riddick/Madcap Moss.
  • Paige/Saraya had (short) relationships with numerous wrestlers on the roster while she was still down at FCW/WWE NXT, including Xavier Woods, Dean Ambrose, (possibly) Seth Rollins (which meant that Zahra Schreiber wasn't the first person he cheated on his fiancee with), and Brad Maddox (who would release some of Paige's sex tapes in mid-2017). Most infamously, she started dating Alberto Del Rio at the start of 2016, to great controversy. Del Rio was in the middle of a divorce and allegedly had a fling with Charlotte Flair just a short while ago, but those weren't what disturbed everyone. It was the age difference between the two, and how the relationship coincided with changes in Paige's behavior, including getting two tattoos of the guy literally months into their relationship, two wellness policy violations one after the other, and Paige deciding to propose to him not even a year into their relationship in another company's wrestling ring. The two continued to generate controversy for the next year (including the aforementioned sex tape scandal and a recording that caused an investigation into possible domestic abuse) before breaking off the engagement in October 2017.
  • Thea Trinidad aka Rosita, Diving Fly or Zelina Vega, previously dated Austin Aries and is now married to Aleister Black.
  • Raymond Rowe of the War Raiders (or "Erik" of the Viking Raiders) married and had a child with Sarah Logan of The Riott Squad/Valhalla.
  • SAnitY members Killian Dain and Nikki Cross are married.
  • Montez Ford of the Street Profits is married to Bianca Belair.
  • Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae have been married since 2016 and have a son together.
  • Keith Lee became engaged to Mia Yim in 2021 and they got married in 2022.
    • Yim previously dated Jay Rios.
  • Adam Cole is dating Dr. Britt Baker DMD.
  • Will Ospreay and Bea Priestley (NXT UK's Blair Davenport) were together for several years. They later broke up, and Priestley began dating Josh Terry/Riley Osborne in 2022. Osborne and Davenport are engaged in 2023.
  • Peyton Royce/Cassie Lee is married to Shawn Spears, formerly known as Tye Dillinger. They have a son.
  • Alexa Bliss was engaged to Buddy Murphy but later broke up with him. Murphy or Buddy Matthews is dating Rhea Ripley as of 2022.
  • Drake Maverick is married to WWE Mae Young Classic competitor Renee Michelle. note 
  • Maria Kanellis is married to (and has children with) Mike Bennett (fka: Mike Kanellis).
  • Carmella dated Big Cass but broke up with him in 2017. She later started dating WWE former wrestler turned color commentator Corey Graves and married him in 2022.
    • Big Cass, now known as Big Bill in AEW, is currently engaged to AEW backstage interviewer Lexy Nair.
    • Enzo Amore dated Liv Morgan in 2017 but they broke up after Morgan accused Enzo of cheating on her. Morgan also dated Tyler Bate and is currently in a relationship with Bo Dallas. Dallas previously married to former NXT's Sarah Backman.
  • Brian Cage is married to Lucha Underground ring announcer Melissa Santos.
  • Bray Wyatt was in a relationship with WWE Ring Announcer JoJo Offerman, and they have one son and one daughter. They got engaged in 2022, and were still engaged at the time in Wyatt's untimely death in 2023.
  • Madison Rayne is married to Impact commentator Josh Matthews.
  • Cedric Alexander is married to former AEW wrestler Big Swole.
  • Tyler Breeze is married to former NXT Wrestler Audrey Marie.
  • Ricochet formerly dated Tessa Blanchard, then Kacy Catanzaro. He is now engaged to Samantha Irvin, the Raw ring announcer.
    • Tessa Blanchard married Mexican wrestler Daga in 2019. The couple announced their separation in 2023.
  • Karrion/Killer Kross is in a relationship with Scarlett (Bordeaux). Both of them ended up on NXT with the latter portraying the former's valet. They got married in 2022.
  • Rich Swann and Su Yung are married and expecting a child.
  • Kimber Lee was married to Zachary Green (The Rascalz's Zachary Wentz/MSK's Nash Carter). They divorced under... nasty circumstances that ended up with Carter being fired from the WWE.
    • Zackary Green started dating Priscilla Kelly, known as Gigi Dolin in NXT, in 2023, they got engaged that same year.
  • AEW's Jack Perry is dating Anna Jay, formerly of The Dark Order and currently of the Jericho Appreciation Society.
  • Darby Allin married Priscilla Kelly (NXT's Gigi Dolin) in 2018. They divorced (though remaining good friends) in 2020.
  • Cody Rhodes has been in a relationship with Brandi Rhodes/Eden Stiles ever since they first met in WWE. They later married and had a daughter.
  • Goldust married Terri Runnels in 1993 and later divorced in 1999.
  • Toni Storm began dating Juice Robinson, formerly known as CJ Parker in NXT, in 2020. They got married in 2022.
  • Bobby Lashley formerly dated WWE Diva Kristal Marshall and has 2 children with her.
  • Walter or Gunther of Imperium is married to former NXT UK's Jinny Shandu. On 27 December 2023, they welcomed to their first child, a boy.
    • Another Imperium member Marcel Barthel/Ludwig Kaiser is dating former NXT Women's Champion Tiffany Stratton.
  • Sammy Guevara married Tay Melo (previously known on-screen as Tay Conti) in 2022, not long after she joined Sammy's on-screen faction. At Double or Nothing 2023 Guevara announced they're expecting their first child who was born in November 2023.
  • Julia Hart of House of Black and Lee Johnson got married in 2023. They met in AEW.
  • Tommaso Ciampa is married to former WWE Tough Enough contestant Jesse Ward and has a daughter with her.
  • Bron Breakker is dating Cora Jade. Jade shared her story that she's dating Breakker on Instagram.
    • Jade herself previously dated Blake Christian, who competed on NXT under the ring name Trey Baxter.
  • Roderick Strong is married to Marina Shafir and has one son.
  • NXT commentator Vic Joseph is married to WWE backstage interviewer Mckenzie Mitchell.
  • Former WWE wrestler Wesley Blake married to former Tough Enough winner Sara Lee. They have a daughter and son. Sara passed away on October 6, 2022.
  • Evil (Wrestler) was engaged to Io Shirai/Iyo Sky.
  • Kay Lee Ray/Alba Fyre is married to Stevie Boy Xavier.
  • Shane "Swerve" Strickland (f.k.a. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, also of Hit Row fame) is dating former NXT wrestler Jessi Kamea.
  • Luke/Doc Gallows was married to Amber O'Neal from 2014 until they divorced in 2017.
  • Braun Strowman was in a relationship with Raquel Gonzalez/Rodriguez.
  • Sam Stoker/Kit Wilson of the Pretty Deadly is engaged to NXT's Stevie Turner.
  • Carmelo Hayes is dating Kelani Jordan.
  • NXT Tag Team Champions Nathan Frazer is dating Thea Hail of Chase U.
  • Trick Williams is dating Lash Legend of The Meta-Four (on-screen Legend is interest on Williams)


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