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The legends of WWE have paved quite a path for the current roster. Whilst there is already pressure on the current generation to continue the work of their predecessors, the pressure is much worse for a handful of athletes.
In recent years, many female wrestlers have come through the ranks in WWE and have had the weight of their family's expectations thrust onto their shoulders. Second and third-generation female wrestlers have populated the women's locker room and have pushed to equal or better the success their parents already had in the business.
Whilst there are a few who have been able to surpass the success that their parents were able to have in the business, there are others who have fallen a little below the mark.
The following list looks at just three WWE women who have been able to surpass their parents' success and two who couldn't.
#5. Surpassed her parent's success - Former WWE Women's Champion Carmella
Carmella is currently performing on the SmackDown roster where she's a former two-time Women's Champion. The inaugural female Money in the Bank winner is often forgotten when it comes to second-generation superstars since her father was a jobber in the company in the 1990s.
Paul Van Dale made several appearances for the company as an enhancement talent during the early years of Monday Night RAW. His daughter has since been able to follow in his footsteps after starting out her career as a cheerleader and dancer.
Like several women in the company at present, including Alexa Bliss and Mandy Rose, Carmella joined WWE without any experience in the ring and has since been able to excel in both NXT and on the main roster.
The former Women's Champion is a lifelong wrestling fan and grew up idolizing Miss Elizabeth before later joining the company back in 2013. Carmella initially applied for Tough Enough back in 2010 but withdrew her application when she was accepted as a Laker Girl.
Carmella has recently had a gimmick change where she's seen as the "most beautiful woman in WWE" and was able to signal her attitude change with a victory this past week on SmackDown.
#4. Wasn't able to surpass her parents - Former WWE Superstar Shaul Guerrero
Shaul Guerrero had huge boots to fill when she signed a contract with WWE back in 2010. The third-generation star followed in the footsteps of her father Eddie and her grandfather Gory Guerrero but was unable to have the same level of success.
Guerrero's career in FCW started out brightly since she was able to become both The Queen of FCW and win the FCW Divas Championship. When FCW was revamped into NXT a few years later, Guerrero followed the company to Full Sail University but departed WWE in 2014.
The former Divas Champion struggled with several personal issues throughout her time in the company and later went on to leave the business and begin performing as a burlesque dancer in Chicago.
Her mother Vickie Guerrero was part of WWE for several years as an on-screen authority figure but left around the same time as her daughter. Vickie and Shaul have since made appearances for AEW with Shaul making a cameo as a ring announcer back in August 2020.
#3. Surpassed her parents' success - Former WWE Women's Champion Natalya
Natalya is the niece of one of the best-known wrestlers in the history of WWE. Bret "The Hitman" Hart cast quite the shadow throughout his wrestling career and has left Nattie with a lot of weight on her shoulders since his retirement.
The daughter of Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart is a third-generation superstar who has been contracted to WWE now for more than a decade. It's an ongoing opinion amongst the WWE Universe that Natalya has been underutilized throughout her career but is still a former Women's Champion and one-half of the current WWE Women's Tag Team Champions.
Natalya is one of the company's best technical wrestlers and has also had a hand in training several of the women who currently populate the locker room.
Her father was a member of The Hart Foundation and helped to dominate the business throughout the 1990s. Hart also made several appearances alongside his daughter on E! Network show Total Divas before his untimely passing back in 2018.
#2. Wasn't able to surpass her parents' success - Former WWE Superstar Rachael Ellering
Rachel Ellering is the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Paul Ellering, who most recently made a name for himself managing The Authors of Pain.
Ellering became iconic for managing The Road Warriors throughout the 1990s and managing the two men's personal arrangements outside the ring as well. The Road Warriors, alongside their manager, were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame back in 2011, four years before Ellering returned to WWE as the manager of AOP in NXT.
His daughter Rachael is one of three children and is a former powerlifting champion. Ellering trained with Lance Storm ahead of her WWE debut and was part of the company for four years before her release back in 2020.
Ellering was known under the ring name Rachael Evers throughout her time in NXT and was released as part of the company's budget cuts following the COVID-19 pandemic. Ellering has since gone on to sign for IMPACT Wrestling and is former Knockout's Tag Team Champion.
#1. Surpassed her parent's success - Former 12-time WWE Women's Champion Charlotte Flair
Ric Flair's 16-time World Championship haul has been a longstanding record in WWE but it appears that his own daughter could be the one to finally surpass his success.
Charlotte Flair signed for WWE back in 2012 and is already a former 12-time Women's Champion as well as a former Tag Team Champion. Flair has main evented WrestleMania, won the annual Royal Rumble, and is recognized as a Grand Slam Champion in WWE.
Even though she's only been part of the company for nine years, Flair is already the most decorated female wrestler in the history of WWE. Whilst her father is a two-time Hall of Famer and left Flair with some huge shoes to step into when she decided to pursue a career in the wrestling business, The Queen has definitely measured up.
This weekend at Hell in a Cell, Charlotte could go one step closer to equalling her father's record if she's able to defeat Rhea Ripley to lift the RAW Women's Championship for the fifth time.
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