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The wrestling business can be a harsh place at times, which means that more often than not, wrestlers are forced to house share with friends or work colleagues. When WWE recruits new trainees to the Performance Center, they are usually given roommates and it allows many stars to make friends if they don't already know anyone in the company.
There are many well-known roommate pairings in WWE history, including Shelton Benjamin & Brock Lesnar and Daniel Bryan & Shinsuke Nakamura. In this article, thought, we look at a few stars who once bunked together that the WWE Universe is less likely to know about.
#5. Big Cass and Dean Ambrose
Dean Ambrose is currently married and living with his wife Renee Young, while also performing as Jon Moxley in AEW. While Ambrose was performing on the Independent Circuit in his early career, he had several different roommates, one of them being Impact Wrestling's Eli Drake.
When Ambrose was finally signed to WWE, he shared a room with fellow star Big Cass. Ambrose himself admitted that when he was first signed to FCW, he was unable to rent an apartment, so he had to rent a room on Craigslist.
It wasn't the best of places and the former World Champion was paying around $100 a week to rent the room until Big Cass offered him a room to share. The two men then lived together well into Ambrose's time on the main roster, since he reportedly didn't move out until 2014 when he was a part of The Shield.
Big Cass noted that the time he spent living with Dean Ambrose was "the best of my life".
#4. Torrie Wilson and Stacy Keibler
It perhaps doesn't come as much of a surprise that two who once represented WCW and then moved over to WWE, once also lived together. WWE Hall of Famer Torrie Wilson and former star Stacy Keibler were best friends throughout their careers, having had very similar paths into the company. Interestingly, though, they didn't become roommates until the tail end of their careers when they moved to Los Angeles in 2005.
The two women traveled together throughout their careers and always had similar views on the business, so it was a shock that it took so long for them to decide to live together.
This was merely a year before Keibler left WWE to pursue a career in entertainment, while Wilson later followed in her footsteps and has since pursued a career in fitness. The two women remain best friends, and Keibler even made her first WWE appearance in more than a decade to induct her long-time friend into the WWE Hall of Fame back in 2019
#3. Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano
Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano have been part of one of the greatest feuds in NXT history over the past few years. One of the reasons why the feud has been so successful is because the two men have such good chemistry.
There was a time when Ciampa and Gargano were best friends and were known as DIY. The former NXT Tag Team Champions once even lived together during their early days in NXT, but when Ciampa turned his back on Gargano in Chicago back in 2017, he was forced to move out of their shared accommodation.
Gargano and Ciampa were so close at one point that Gargano's wife Candice LeRae lived with the two men and The Blackheart was even invited to Gargano's wedding back in 2016. The two men traveled the world together and made their name in NXT before Ciampa turned his back on his best friend. Since then, the two men then became two of the biggest singles stars in the company.
#2. Tyler Breeze and Xavier Woods
These two seem like a strange duo who decided to share a room, especially since Xavier Woods would have had a much better connection with his New Day teammates. But Woods and Tyler Breeze were both in NXT at the same time and were roommates before making their way to WWE.
It was even revealed that at one point during Tyler Breeze's NXT run, the company was about to fire him, but Xavier Woods was able to help him to come up with a new gimmick, which ultimately saved his job. It's perhaps less known that former RAW General Manager Brad Maddox was also roommates with the two men.
At present, Breeze has been sent back to NXT and Xavier Woods has been stuck on the sidelines for a number of months after suffering an Achilles injury back in 2019. Reports currently suggest that Woods won't be back in action in a WWE ring until 2021.
#1. Angelo Dawkins and Sami Zayn
While Montez Ford and his wife Bianca Belair's living arrangements are well known, it appears that the other half of the RAW Tag Team Champions Angelo Dawkins has a much more storied past.
Dawkins appeared on WWE's The Bump back in February, where he was able to reveal all about his time in NXT, which included meeting Sami Zayn and going on to become his roommate.
"So I met Sami when we tried out in the week and they said ‘hey, you guys are gonna be together,’ so we ended up getting a rental car together. So the first time I met Sami I’m walking and I don’t even know what he looks like at this time so I’m trying to find out how I can get in contact with him and I’m one of the only dudes who is pretty big walking through the airport at that point in time.”
“The next thing I know Sami walks up to me and says, ‘Hey are you Angelo?’ and I said ‘Hey’ he said, ‘Hey I’m Sami Zayn!’ I remember we watched a pay-per-view that was CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan if I’m not mistaken while we were at the airport as we waited for someone else so we could bounce out, but at that point in time Sami Zayn was a pretty cool dude.”
