10 Wrestlers Who Married Their Managers

Wedding rings meet wrestling rings!

Congratulations to Rusev (Miroslav Barnyashev) and Lana (Catherine Jo Perry)! Monday morning, the news broke on TMZ that the longtime couple - who first became an item in NXT - are engaged to be married. While WWE's handling of the situation on Monday's Raw (Rusev was beaten and emasculated in a puzzling segment) seemed less than well-intentioned, hopefully the happy couple can look forward to years of personal and professional success. Rusev and Lana aren't the first on-screen/off-screen wrestling couple and they won't be the last. For many years, men and women who have been paired up on television - and who have subsequently spent much time together - have fallen for each other and ended up tying the knot (sometimes at the expense of other relationships). Other times, things have happened in the opposite order - husband and wife pairs who are already married are put together on TV, and the result is usually good chemistry. With wrestlers on the road together forming a family of sorts, it's only natural that deep connections will form or that real-life family members will join in on the fun. Here's a list of ten wrestler/manager pairs who were married in real life.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013