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A lot of the time professional wrestling really is a family business. There are a number of extremely famous families in wrestling that if you're born into them, you can't help but become a part of the industry.
The McMahons, the Colons, the Guerreros. All examples of famous families within the realms of pro wrestling that have produced countless performers who have helped shape and mould the business into what we know it as today.
What families in pro wrestling lead to, of course, is brothers and sisters competing for companies at the same time, although not necessarily. There are certain siblings in wrestling that have pretty large age gaps between them. What that has led to is wrestlers from the same generation competing in totally different eras. Here are just five examples of times wrestling siblings had a huge number of years separating them.
#5 Charlotte and David Flair
Those of you who watched WCW during its later years might recall David Flair. Despite having the blood of perhaps the greatest pro wrestler of all time running through his veins, The Nature Boy's son never really got going in the wrestling business.
Fast forward a decade and his sister, seven years David's junior, entered the fray and showed exactly where all those Flair wrestling genes had gone. Right now Charlotte is arguably the best female performer in WWE and well on her way to winning as many titles as her father.
Granted seven years isn't a massive amount between siblings, but with this example, it feels a lot longer. Charlotte began wrestling a long, long time after her brother David had a crack at it as she reportedly had no interest in entering the business, at a younger age.
#4 Bret and Owen Hart
These two siblings have a very different story to that of Charlotte and David Flair. Bret and Owen may have also come from a pro wrestling family with a rich history, but despite their age difference, they competed at the same time, as you can see above.
Owen was the youngest of 12 children, pretty incredible considering his and Bret's mother Helen was initially told that she would probably never be able to have children. The Hitman was the eighth of those 12 kids and was born eight years before his younger brother Owen.
Both Bret and Owen helped shape WWE during the mid-1990s and had some classic matches against each other to boot. Who knows how much more Owen could have given to the wrestling business had it not been for his tragic death in 1999.
#3 Roman Reigns and Rosey
This one is one of the lesser known familial links in modern day professional wrestling. Roman Reigns had a brother who also competed in WWE. If the image above still isn't helping, then maybe the name Rosey will jog your memory.
Rosey competed in WWE during the early to mid-2000s as The Hurricane's super hero sidekick and actually held the Tag Team Championships with him at one time. It's understandable that Rosey's run came long before his brother Roman's considering that there was a 15 year age gap between the pair of them.
Sadly Roman's brother Rosey passed away very recently. In April of this year, the former WWE Superstar died of congestive heart failure at the age of just 47.
#2 Cody Rhodes and Goldust
It really is a credit to Goldust's longevity in the wrestling business that this sibling duo could not only compete on the same show together but also work as a team. There are a massive 16 years between these two, yet both of them remain active wrestlers today.
Before Cody Rhodes left WWE for greener pastures he was embroiled in an angle with his older brother. They were a team, then they were enemies, WWE didn't really seem to know what they were doing and it must have frustrated the both of them.
Eventually, the company waited too long to pull the trigger on whatever they had planned for these two and Cody left. The Stardust gimmick was obviously only worth doing if it was leading somewhere significant with his brother Goldust, but it got to a point where that ship had likely already sailed.
#1 Eddie and Chavo Guerrero Sr.
This one will probably have some of you raising a few eyebrows. Eddie Guerrero spent a lot of time in a tag team with Chavo and the pair were clearly similar in age. That isn't the Chavo this article is referring to though.
There was another Chavo Guerrero in WWE at the time, the younger Chavo's father. It was actually this gentleman who was the brother of Latino Heat making the man Eddie tagged with his nephew. Naturally, then there was going to be a fair few years between the birth of Eddie and Chavo Guerrero Sr.
There was. 18 years to be exact. Once again the two were from a large and well thought of pro wrestling family. If you were a Guerrero, then it was basically your birth right to become a pro wrestler. Sadly, both Eddie and Chavo Sr have both passed on.
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