5 famous wrestling families
Just like any other business, family plays a huge part in the wrestling business. As a performer in professional wrestling, one is wound up to the road more than living a stable life at home and so are many of your family members. And when one is too devoted to the business, it is but obvious that might just inspire one or more members of their family.
That has been the case for the ones on this list of the most well-known wrestling families all around the world. Each of them carved their own niche, unique in one way or the other. Here are 5 of many well-known wrestling families-
#1 The McMahon Family
Known as wrestling’s first family- McMahon’s contribution to wrestling is more on the business front than actually wrestling. Though Vince K McMahon and his kids Shane and Stephanie McMahon have often strapped up their boots as on- screen characters, they aren’t really professional wrestlers, they’re major contributions rank in the business aspect of things.
Roderick James McMahon was a successful boxing, wrestling and concert promoter. His son Vincent James McMahon took over the family business and headed Capitol Wrestling Corporation which has had its fair share of the journey into becoming what we now know as WWE. Vincent Kennedy McMahon later took on from his father and the rest is history.
The WWE is and has been their family business which the current chairman brought to new heights by combining the powers of wrestling and show biz. The Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Connection kicked off the Golden Era of wrestling and since then it has become a pop cultural phenomenon.