10 On-Screen Wrestling Couples You Never Knew Existed

8. Jeff Hardy & Trish Stratus

Mickie James Ring of Honor
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Perhaps a case of a couple being more forgotten than never thought of, it seems inconceivable that Trish Stratus and Jeff Hardy were involved in an angle together and nothing about it ever really stuck other that the 'Charismatic Enigma's make-up on her face.

2003 would prove to be the making of Trish Stratus and 2002's in-ring gains became confirmed realisations - she really was becoming everything she was promoted as by a company that actually looked keen to promote women's wrestling again.

That same year was sadly rougher for Hardy - a man soon to depart after knocking back a rehab request from the company as his life and career ricocheted in a post-Attitude Era tailspin.

The romantic angle between the pair seemed to be just another hail mary from WWE to try and make him stay (there were teases of a feud with Shawn Michaels that also never materialised), but like the others, it was futile. Their relationship ended when his tenure did - he wanted no more to be Stratus' on-screen beau than he did a WWE Superstar in general.

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