10 Times WWE Tried To Convince You Wrestlers Were Related

5. The Dudley Boyz

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As the story goes, Big Daddy Dudley travelled around the United States getting as many women pregnant as he possibly could. When those ladies then gave birth to countless baby boys, they all became half-brothers. The two most prominent were Bubba-Ray and D-Von, otherwise known as one of wrestling's most successful tag-teams: The Dudley Boyz.

The half-brother gimmick was blatantly bluff, but that didn't stop Paul Heyman's ECW or WWE from telling the tale over and over again; WWE, for their part, downplayed the Big Daddy Dudley story, preferring to lean on the idea that The Dudleyz were fiercely loyal in spite of having different mothers.

Of course, the whole thing was a ruse.

Behind the scenes, Bubba-Ray and D-Von were merely good pals who had formed a tag-team. They didn't share any family bond and they didn't even know one another at all until D-Von joined the Dudley clan in 1996.

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