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The world of professional wrestling is a weird one. You're on the road for upwards of 300 days in a year with the same crew and yet you don't really call them your friends. There is too much politicking, backstabbing and general lack of trust between members of the same locker room.
But despite this, some professional wrestlers are able to genuinely connect with someone else from the locker room and a friendship that will withstand all the pressures involved with being a WWE superstar is born. Today, we are here to celebrate those eternal friendships.
Whether it is long-time members of the WWE roster who forged their bonds through their time together with the company or those wrestlers who have been friends from their time wrestling all across the world and have finally found themselves back in the WWE, these men and women truly love each other.
These men and women would absolutely do anything for each other. So, without any further ado, let's get into our list of 5 sets of best friends in the WWE:
#5 Trish and Lita
Trish and Lita were the two pioneers of women's wrestling in an age where there was little demand for their in-ring abilities and more demand for them being presented as objects for men to fantasize over.
Instead, they were able to get people genuinely interested in their matches and made a name for themselves as two of the very best of all-time. They might have been eternal rivals inside the squared circle but away from the ropes, they were fast friends.
Even today, years after their retirements, they are in constant contact with each other and can be seen posting photos together on their social media accounts. Trish inducted Lita into the WWE Hall of Fame and Lita is even the godmother for one of Trish's daughters, that's how tight the pair are.
#4 Finn Balor and Karl Anderson
Finn Balor made his way to Japan to join up with New Japan Pro Wrestling in the 2000s in order to make a name for himself. Around the same time, there was another foreigner cutting his teeth in NJPW by the name of Karl Anderson.
The two immediately hit it off and have been friends ever since. When Balor formed Bullet Club in Japan, it was an immediate requirement to have Anderson join him in the new heel faction. While he might have left for the WWE, Anderson wasn't all that far behind, joining him soon after.
You can how close the two of them are through their social media chatter as well as Balor's 24/7 documentary. The entire Balor family is close to Karl Anderson's family and this particular bond has withstood the test of time.
#3 Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
Fans of the WWE who don't know each other any better might be tempted to think that Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn absolutely despise each other but nothing can be further from the truth. The pair are the closest of friends and have been since their teenage years in Canada.
They met while they were just getting started in the business in Quebec and became close within a matter of months eventually leaving their hometown to tour the indie circuit across the United States as Kevin Steen and El Generico.
When Sami Zayn finally got the call to join up with WWE's developmental brand NXT, he was thrilled to learn that KO would be joining him soon after. The two have been in a heated on-screen rivalry since but are still extremely close when the cameras are off.
In the Fight Owens, Fight Documentary about The Prizefighter, you can see Owens hugging Zayn and telling him "This is for both of us" after winning the WWE Universal Championship on the night after Summerslam 2016.
#2 Edge and Christian
Childhood friends. On-screen brothers. On-screen rivals. On-screen best friends. Real-life best friends. The story of Edge and Christian is one of true friendship and love. The pair have been friends since their formative years in Canada and are going strong to this day.
They bonded over their love for WWE and achieved their dream of wrestling for the company together. They were paired off as on-screen brothers and soon the narrative shifted to hated rivals and eventually, the real-life version of events: best friends. During all of this, they managed to establish themselves as one of the greatest tag teams of all-time.
Christian inducted Edge into the WWE Hall of Fame when the latter was forced into the retirement and Edge returned the favour by helping Christian win his first-ever World Title in the WWE. Today, they are both retired and host various shows for the WWE Network together.
#1 Triple H and Shawn Michaels
Who else was it going to be, right? Right from the time that Triple H joined the company, he became great friends with Shawn Michaels and the rest of The Kliq - Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and X-Pac - and that was nearly 25 years ago.
The two would go on to form D-Generation X together and ruled the backstage politics of that era. And, when Shawn needed to see if his body was capable of a comeback after years away injured, it was Trips who led him through a critically acclaimed Street Fight to show him that he still had it.
Hunter inducted The Heartbreak Kid into the WWE Hall of Fame and now with the former primed to take over as the next head of the company, expect Michaels to play a role in the new age that will dawn on the world of WWE.
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