10 Best Father & Son Team-Ups In Wrestling

9. Larry 'The Axe' Hennig & Curt Hennig

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Few father and son wrestlers featured on TV together quite as much as Larry and Curt Hennig.

Larry the Axe was already a major star in the midwest by the time that his son Curt debuted in the AWA in 1980. And while Curt would go on to become a bigger star than his father, the pair spent several years working together in the AWA and in Pacific Northwest Wrestling.

It was during the duo's time in Pacific Northwest in 1982 that the Hennig pairing would claim tag team gold, defeating 'Crippler' Rip Oliver and Matt Borne (the future Doink the Clown) to become the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Champions barely two years into Curt's pro career.

Curt would go on to emulate his father by winning the AWA World Heavyweight Championship and AWA Tag Team Championship (on three occasions) before taking his stardom to a whole other level as Mr. Perfect in the then-WWF from 1988 - but during so much of his AWA glory days, it was the famed Axe who was so often alongside Curt in all that he did.

The career of these two was nicely dovetailed, with Curt coming into the business as Larry was winding down his in-ring days - providing the Hennings a chance for their careers to intertwine before Curt was put on a rocket to stardom.

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