10 Most Infamous Fake Wrestling Relatives
9. Dixie Carter & EC3
Hindsight is 20/20, but releasing Derrick Bateman must go down as WWE's biggest developmental regrets of the past few years. The former NXT contestant wasn't given much of a chance to shine following a daft love triangle angle with Maxine and Johnny Curtis, and departed the company in 2013. TNA came sniffing just three months later, and signed him to a contract that August.
Rebranded 'Ethan Carter III,' he was introduced as company owner Dixie Carter's spoiled rich nephew. The two aren't related at all, but the EC3 gimmick proved to be the making of Bateman as a performer. He quickly became one of the company's most reliably entertaining acts, and his aunt's continuous preferential treatment made him easy to hate.
Despite the relationship's undeniable profitability, the bulk of EC3's greatest success has come without Dixie by his side. Both of his TNA Heavyweight Championship wins came when she was either absent from television or on the opposite side of the face/heel alignment scale, and the two feuded for a while in 2016. Dixie has since departed from the company, but her kayfabe nephew remains one of their most prominent stars.