Hey ramblers, I thought I’d mix things up a little bit this week. Usually it’s current WWE events or past wrestling I ramble on each and every week but this week I’ll be rambling about my favorite ”Wrestling Relationships”, from the past 100 years of pro wrestling. However, since ”relationships” only came into play in wrestling about 20 years ago, it’ll be since that time. The following are in no specific order regarding my favorite couples. In fact, they are just random couples that I enjoyed, so here we go!
Triple H and Stephanie McMahon
Ah, Trips and Steph. Ironically, they’re a real life couple, married and have children. None the less, they are known as one of the most diverting couples in wrestling history. The McMahon-Helmsley Era allegedly was personally my favorite time to watch the WWF as it was at it’s peak both creatively and in terms of popularity. This figuration all came about when Triple H tricked the Vince McMahons’ ”billion dollar princess” into marrying him. Stephanie was Vince’s little girl, the billion dollar princess. Firstly, Stephanie was mortified marrying Triple H, the leader of the dexterous D-Generation X. It wasn’t long until the Billion Dollar Princess turned on her father, the owner of the WWF, Vince McMahon. Little did Vince know it would take merely overnight for Stephanie to turn into a full fledged obnoxious, screechy-voiced, scantily-clad heel. After an aggravated Vince McMahon took time off, Vince and Stephanie were power hungry and went on a squashing trip simply by beating the hell out of all the babyfaces. This was a captivated storyline that I for one excessively enjoyed throughout.
Edge and Vickie Guerrero
Edge fastened the right to call himself the ultimate opportunist, and by god did he do this by associating himself with a woman he clearly was not into, which was indeed Vickie Guerrero. Edge saw an opportunity for him to assure he was world champion with the Smackdown General Manager behind him. This story worked so well, Edge was obviously a heel and a tremendous one at that. Then to affectionate himself with Vickie Guerrero, whom the fans insanely boo without her speaking a word, it was no surprise that these two can go down as one-of-the most despised wrestling couples of all time. My most favorite part of this was this was all booked like an old storyline, it lasted longer than six weeks without getting stale and boring. This unification would last well over a year and the story was an on/off routine for the two. I’d love to see another storyline take over Smackdown for more than a year like this one.
Booker T and Sharmell
Ah, good old King Booker and Queen Sharmell. The couple are in point of fact real-life married. Perhaps the most sincere part about these two was the fact their relationship continued on screen in TNA, now known as Impact Wrestling. The first we saw of Shamell was on Smackdown! Shamrell immediately became involved in Booker T’s storylines as being stalked by Kurt Angle in an aroused feud and then later in a feud with the sick and twisted, Boogeyman. The journey of Booker T and Sharmell was based around the assistance of Sharmell to Booker by aiding Booker into utilizing a United States championship, the later, a King of the Ring thrown. Which of course pronounced them queen and king of Smackdown as they declared their dominance as the heirs of Smackdown! Booker then defeated Rey Mysterio for his world heavyweight championship. Personally what I loved most regarding this couple was the fact it was so believable and not fake like most other wrestling relationships. The love and chemistry between the two was phenomenal.
Matt Hardy and Lita
Lita was the manager of the Hardy Boyz, one of the most distinguished tag teams in WWE history winning countless of tag team titles and thousands of unforgettable moments including 30-feet falls off ladders into tables. That’s how Matt and Lita met. They started off as a ”sweetheart” couple. Like Booker T and Sharmell, two were also a real-life couple. I guess I can talk a little about Jeff Hardy since he was involved alongside Matt for the better part of their relationship. They called themselves, Team Xtreme. Matt, Jeff and Lita would go on to become on the most ultimate babyfaces at the time. They sold the merchandise. Kids loved them, adults loved them. Eventually, Lita ended up with Edge which led to an awesome and believable storyline.
Thank You for reading! I will eventually be doing another run-on for other wrestling relationships. I know I’ve done columns like ”Greatest Wrestler’s of Yesterday” and ”In Appreciation Of”. Just letting you know I have some written and some nearly written so I will defintaly be following up on them.
My favourite of those above would be Triple H & Stephanie. I grew up watching wrestling from no age but the years I really do remember would be around 2000-2006. Not that I could answer a trivia on those years though! Anyhow, the biggest moment I remember in the HHH/Stephanie storyline was when Stephanie sided with Jericho who went on to defend his championship at WrestleMania against HHH. Stephanie was out at ringside in a blue get-up & near the end of the match received a pedigree from HHH. Think HHH won that match as well.
I think Stephanie has a HUGE presence on WWE TV, she’s like a younger version of Vickie Guerrero. She can get booed out of the building. Stephanie was one of my favourite heels back in the day. She’s awesome. I’d definitely welcome her back to WWE, it’d be awesome to see her & Eve plot with each other.
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Next week or the next time I do this would, Stephanie and Jericho will be on the list. Stephanie was amazing, she’s unreal sexy too, lol. I really hope she can be the GM of SD again or RAW sometime. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
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Yeah Jericho & Stephanie were so good lol! She is indeed hot, actually one of my first crushes on WWE. But yeah I’d love her to return as a GM, she was good back in the day as SD GM
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By gawd was she hot! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjN-A6AvOgI
It’d be awesome if she just came onto SD and ”threw her weight” around and fired Teddy Long and became GM of SD. It would be a good storyline. Stephanie would get massive heat and Long would get massive cheers.
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Let’s hope Vince doesn’t show up to challenge her to an I Quit match again. hahaha
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haha..oh good lord! Stephanie’s face coming down to the ring was priceless, though!
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Yeah, Stephanie vs Johnny Ace would be more exciting but I love Teddy Long playa!
HAHA what the fuck was Vince actually thinking allowing that match to take place? So bad! Father vs Daughter… da hell!
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I can’t wait for you to do ones on Macho and Liz, Macho & Sherri, HBK & Sherri, Spike & Molly Holly, Stone Cold & Debra, Jeff Jarrett & Debra 🙂
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I was going to write Stone Cold and Debra this week but I really ran out of time and didn’t even fully read over this column, I’ll have to later. I’m looking forward to writing them 😛
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Zack Ryder and his 25 on screen girlfriends lol. John Morrison and Melina were one of my favorites as well, I’m also a huge mark for both though 😛
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Jomo and Melina is one I was going to add this week as well, but there is just so many of them! lol.
Since we’re on Wrestling Relationship discussion, how will Eve and Zack play out?
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I have no idea, I think It’s too soon for a Ryder heel turn, maybe in a couple of weeks he’ll tell Eve he was the one using her?
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That would be good. He’d be just a typical guy then. It could get a huge pop when he tells Eve that.
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Regardless, when he finally comes back to the ring, eveyrthing thats happened will put him over the hump anyway in terms of fans getting behind him, having him use Eve like she used him would be great.
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Hopefully. That was the whole idea of him being of TV. I read on F4W that WWE had to do this so he wouldn’t get stale. Makes sense really. He was growing too much popularity too fast.
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Are you going to cover Hogan’s relationships with random brunettes and Brutus the barber Beefcake?
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lol. Honestly, he must of known who that woman was in that sex tape, probably is cousin or something, haha.
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Of course he does. Im torn between loving Hogan and thnking he is a moron. Probably more moron since he blocked me FOR NO REASON on twitter. I mean come on, I am never a dick on twitter. I’m a delight. Ha
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. 🙂
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Edge and Lita were my fave personally – a real slimy, sleazy, sexy combo. But the Vickie relationship definitely had the best storyline progression – I rmbr being in shock the first time they made out in a shot that seemed to go on forever on Smackdown. Edge was such an incredible heel from 06-09.
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The next part to this, Edge and Lita will defiantly be in it, I’ll try to write about 6 couples instead of four. It’s only since I started writing about wrestling couples that I realized there was so many.
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I second Edge and Lita. We need the live sex celebration! I mean those two, not you, Ray! 😉
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I’m old enough to remember the Test-Stephanie McMahon relationship. Test once faced Shane McMahon at a PPV because Shane O’Mac didn’t want Test dating his sister.
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I still remember Steph and Hunter getting married in the drive-thru.
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Yes, just amazing stuff. Wonder if we’ll ever see stuff like this again?
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Zack and Eve!
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lol, it’d have to be like Triple H’s son and John Cena’s daughter or something, haha.
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Oh, I can imagine something like that.
What about Legacy 2.0 with Orton Jr., Cena Jr., Sheamus Jr., and Santino Jr.
And they would all have fake names.
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Reading Jerichos Undisputed and yea, the whole Steph/HHH thing was pretty decent. I loved Jerichos insults on Steph. Classic gold, and that was for sure the attitude era. No PG from Jericho there. So funny Vince let him talk to his daughter like that.
I also enjoyed when Jericho/Chyna had to be co-IC title holders. Reading his book he talks about how shitty Chyna was to work with.
Edge/Vickie didn’t seem realistic to me, because she was a hog, and he could get anyone he wanted, even if she was GM. To me it just didn’t….work. LOL.
Macho and Elizabeth next? Or Elizabeth and Ric Flair? OHHHHHH.
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Edge/Vickie worked for me, because they didn’t really love each other. They just wanted more power.
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Macho and Elizabeth will be on the next column! Not sure if I’ll do the second part next week, though. I should get that book, seems interesting!
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Gotta love Liz! And from Kentucky as well.
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HHH and Stephanie will always be my favorite.
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I’ve gotta say my favourite couple in this article is Edge and Vickie Guerrero. While I wasn’t a fan of their pairing to begin with, they grew on me and were one of the best parts of Smackdown. I also think Edge played a huge part in helping Vickie along, which has helped her go on to become an enjoyable “love to hate” character for many on TV.
I also enjoyed the work of HHH/Stephanie, especially during the beginning. The power trip they went on just made me want to boo and hate them…which is exactly what they wanted. It also linked nicely into feuds HHH had with a few on TV, like Jericho, Angle, Rock.
Look forward to more articles like this in the future!
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Yes, they were a couple that ”grew on you”. The best thing about Step and Trips was the power trip they went on. They were greedy assholes really, lol.
Thank you James 😀
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No Savage-Liz. That’s THE wrestling relationship 😛
I loved the McMahon-Helmsley era, myself. Some great stuff.
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Savage-Liz is nearly worth an entire column, think I might do that actually!
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Please do!
Ray, what happened to the “quote” button? I’ve noticed with enough “replies”, comments can get cut off. Quoting might get rid of the need for constant replies. Please don’t hit me!
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Quoting sadly isn’t an option with this theme I’m using. Perhaps their might be something I could do, I’ll look into it! I miss that too.
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Bastards! lol
No biggie. Just a question.
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What about Billy and Chuck….
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I was going to add them in this week but I will the next time I do this. They were fun to watch, the only downside was you knew they would turn out to be straight at their wedding!
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Loved the theme for some reason.
The Priest reveal was terrific! “…or 3 minutes…”
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Well, at the time I never would of guessed it was Eric Bischoff!
I enjoyed 3 minute warning, sucks they did pretty much fuck all in WWE.
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Yeah, as that gimmick, it didn’t go well. But Rosie did well being S.H.I.T. and Jamal became Umaga. Just proof that you never know what could happen.
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Lets not forget THE most sexually explosive relationship the wrestling world has ever seen…
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Never again in my life do I want to see Mae Young give birth to a hand! lol
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That’s soooooo hot! lol
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This made me stop watching WWE for a while, favouring WCW instead. Btw almost 50 comments. Good work buddy.
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I’m assuming this is Richard?
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Yup. iPhone logged me out again. Grrrr. How did you guess btw?
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Ray has vast mental powers.
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To be fair…the bloke is a genius
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lol…thanks?? 😛
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No, THIS is a Genius!
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