Dating as a wrestler can not be easy - you either spend your life on the road so you’re
away from your loved ones for long periods of time, or you’re you’ve got an army
of fans and the press interested in your every romantic move making it difficult to have
private time or you’re one of the lucky few who both live and work with their partner
in a beautiful form of harmony inside the ropes, and then WWE writes a storyline where
it’s suggested you banged your hubby’s tag team partner.
So let’s here it for those shoot couples that manage to make it work, which is a very
confusing way to put it.
Anyway, I’m El Fakidor Laurie Blake and here are 12 real life wrestling couples.
10 - Mike and Maria Kanellis
The Power of love is real!
It just didn’t translate to television!
Which is a massive shame considering the pair were great together back in Ring of Honor
but the pair’s run in WWE was hampered by bad booking, little to no TV time and Maria’s
maternity leave.
But obviously what’s bad for their wrestling is great for their love life!
The pair have been married since 2014 and have got the baby to prove it.
Plus the wrestling return is on as the pair showed up on 205 Live and beatdown Lince Dorado
- plus plus there’s also the little matter of Evolution.
9 - Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella
This is one wrestling couple who have really felt the benefit of their coupledom, couplehood,
coupleness - both Brie and perhaps reluctantly Daniel have become bonafide reality tv stars
by sharing the trials and tribulations of being married and raising a child on shows
like Total Divas and Total Bellas.
Inside the ropes the pair haven’t had the best run of things recently - suffering a
couple of beat downs before losing to the Miz and Maryse at Hell in a Cell, then we’ve
had the much talked about botches and the ho-hum-ness of Daniel Bryan’s return to
wrestling thus far.
But one thing that hasn’t suicide dived itself straight through the floor and into
stinking pits of hades is their marriage.
When these guys said YES, they blooming well meant it.
8 - Adam Cole and Britt Baker
Adam Cole’s Bay Bay.
Yep Britt Baker who has been tearing it up on the indies and Adam Cole I think you know
who he is, are dating and despite the conflicting schedules, which must make it tough for instance
meaning that Cole couldn’t be at All In to see Britt face off with Tessa Blanchard,
Chelsea Green and Madison Rayne, the pair seem very happy together.
7 - Cody Rhodes and Brandi Rhodes
So weirdly for these two it was a split that made their lives complete - a split with WWE.
Cody Rhodes had been languishing, slowly going mad or getting high off the face paint in
his Stardust gimmick, he requested his release back in May 2016.
And just look at him now.
Brandi too had been a back up ring announcer on Raw and since her departure has toured
the world with Cody, worn tonnes of fun outfits, made a swimwear collection and is a WAG on
WAGS Atlanta, she was a WAG since 2014 when the two married, but not in a televised capacity…
And following the success of All In, a show that Cody and The Young Bucks put together
basically as a dare from Dave Meltzer it seems like there is no stopping the Rhodes colossus.
6 - Reby Sky and Matt Hardy
While Matt Hardy was certainly broken for a time, his marriage to Reby Sky thankfully
isn’t.
Even though the brood was more of an edge and christian thing, the pair have a lovely
little brood that includes weird old man who lives with them.
Señor Benjamin is just Reby’s father.
House Hardy is strong as ever.
5 - Buddy Murphy and Alexa Bliss
Here’s one of the few relationships WWE doesn’t play up on its programming.
The Juggernaut and new champion of 205 Live and The Goddess and Five Time Women’s Champion
across both Smackdown and Raw, what an unbelievable pairing.
Why was this not ever suggested for the Mixed Match Challenge?
Instead Alexa does a meet cute odd coupling with Braun Strowman.
In real life the pair are engaged to be wed, don’t know why I said that like the ghost
of a Victoria town cryer, but they are.
They also have a pet pig, and nothing says true love like a pig.
Except money.
Just me.
4 - Finn Balor and Cathy Kelley
Cathy Kelley is known for dealing in all of the backstage rumours and gossip on WWE Now,
but now the gossiper becomes the gossiped about.
Kelley and Balor have been rumoured to be dating for a while now, and have been photographed
holding hands in the street, at a basketball game and also sat together at the Hall of
Fame.
But it was X-Pac Sean Waltman who bronco busted the story wide open casually mentioning that
Cathy and Finn were dating in one segment of The Tomorrow Show.
3 - Will Ospreay and Bea Priestly
Bea and Will are wrestling couple goals.
The pair have performed around the globe together in the US, in Japan and more recently have
both been key members of the roster on British wrestling revival WOS Wrestling.
He’s an aerial assassin, she dresses like Mileena from Mortal Kombat, takartan argue
with that.
2 - Tye Dillinger and Peyton Royce
Talk about flying under the radar.
Tye Dillinger the Perfect 10 and Peyton Royce of the Iconic have reportedly been dating
for a number of years and are even engaged to be wed.
Oh yay, oh yay, they are enga-jed to be wed.
But the pair are apparently very private and like to keep their relationship out of the
spotlight, so sorry guys, I was told to make this video…
You can call yourselves Pey10 Royce though.
or the Tyeconics.
1 - Killian Dain and Nikki Cross
In sanity, you can sometimes find harmony.
That is an ancient poem.
Or something I just made up.
Or it should be a great sweeping ballad about the love between Big Old Damo, Killian Dane
and Nicola Cross.
Yes, the former Sanity stablemates are reportedly dating and the two have known each other for
years, in fact way back when it was Killian Dain who trained Nikki to become a wrestler.
And now all these years later, the two find themselves in WWE together, insanity.