10 Wrestling Details That Aren’t As Important As You Think

10. Famous Family Members

Wrestling history is full of famous second-generation wrestlers who carry their parents' legacies with them as part of their gimmick.

Randy Orton was accompanied by his famous father during his early days, David Hart Smith wrestles as Davey Boy Smith Jr., and half of Cody Rhodes' act is that he's the son of The American Dream.

However, sometimes a wrestler's famous lineage is never discussed on TV. The key example of this is Curtis Axel.

The son of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, Axel had plenty of nods to his dad's most memorable character hidden in his act. His kayfabe first name was in honour of his father, he used the Perfect-plex as a finisher, and even came out to a modified version of Perfect's old theme song.

Despite all this, his parentage was rarely ever acknowledged by his opponents or commentary. They just decided to sweep the fact that Axel was related to one of the best technical wrestlers of all time completely under the rug.

We're not saying all second-generation wrestlers have to be exact replicas of those that came before them. We're just saying it would be nice if wrestling companies used their history to tell interesting stories.