10 Times WWE Rewrote Its History Books

When legend becomes fact, print the myth.

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WWE is an empire, and like all empires, it has its own history books, whose contents differ slightly from the ones read by the outside world.

It sounds a little shady when you put it like that, but it's really not (no, honestly, it's not: nobody's ever actually been Soviet-style purged or anything - at least not so far as we're aware).

Actually, sometimes it's less about whitewashing history or massaging ego than it is simply setting the stage for modern-era wrestlers to make their name.

If Vince McMahon told us tomorrow, for example, that Roman Reigns came up with the name WrestleMania in 1985 - two months before he was actually born - it'd be a lie, but it'd probably help 'The Big Dog' win over some of his doubters.

In reality, the whole wrestling world is predicated upon fans suspending their disbelief, so throwing in a few white lies every now and then shouldn't really bother anyone, anymore than the idea that Bray Wyatt actually has the ability to teleport.

The only problem is it's impossible for the company to keep things hidden in the age of the internet.

10. Edge & Christian Being Brothers

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When Edge and Christian first came into our lives as a pair of darkly dogsbodies for Gangrel in the late-90s, they were supposed to be brothers.

They weren't real-life brothers like the Hardys (or, err, the Dudleys) but it made a lot of sense. They're roughly the same age - Edge being about a month older - they're both from Canada and, if you squint a little, they look pretty similar too (especially before Christian went short back and sides in '03).

That back-story was forgotten about at some point following their split in the early 2000s, though. Edge became a crowd favourite, teaming up with Rey Mysterio, whilst Christian found new friends in the short-lived Un-Americans stable. It was as though they were never related at all.

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