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The life of a WWE Superstar is a tough one. The company is effectively a travelling circus that tours the world all year round. Having a personal life or a family on top of a career like that can be tricky, if not downright impossible for some. Many wrestlers do manage to pull it off though.
As you can imagine, the most logical direction for a WWE competitor's love life to go is to wind up with someone who shares that same tough schedule with them. They'll understand the other person is going through far better than anyone outside of the business, so wrestler with wrestler relationships are extremely commonplace.
There are plenty of examples of wrestlers somehow making relationships work with someone outside the business, so it's certainly not impossible. Most are also not afraid to partner up with people less famous than themselves, and here are five examples of exactly that.
#5 Ric Flair
Ric Flair has truly had the time of his life while travelling the world as a pro wrestler. Despite the mistakes he's made if you were to ask Naitch what he would change, he would probably reply with 'not a thing'. That includes his four marriages and subsequent divorces.
Incredibly, Ric is currently engaged for an impressive fifth time. What his previous four wives make of that is anyone's guess. Flair's latest fiancee is Wendy Barlow and the pair got engaged in July of 2016.
The name Wendy Barlow probably doesn't ring a bell, but she was actually employed by WCW at one time. The now defunct wrestling company is actually where she and Flair met. Barlow played Fifi the maid from the Nature Boy's interview segment A Flair For The Gold, and they are now together 20 years later. It's kind of sweet really.
#4 Roderick Strong
Roderick Strong is a relatively new addition to WWE's ranks, and anyone unfamiliar with NXT and the independent scene may not know much about him. An extremely successful and well-respected performer on the indies, landing Strong's signature was a tremendous acquisition by Triple H.
Up until recently, Strong was feuding with Bobby Roode, unsuccessfully trying to pry his NXT Championship away from him before Drew McIntyre did it instead at NXT Takeover Brooklyn III. During that feud, we were introduced to Roderick's partner, Marina Shafir.
The name Marina Shafir may ring a bell to some of you, and that's because she has a fair bit of notoriety of her own. Shafir is a mixed martial artist and one of the famed Four Horsewomen of MMA. We've also seen her sitting at ringside along with Ronda Rousey during the Mae Young Classic, taking in some of Shayna Baszler's bouts.
#3 Bayley
Although Vince McMahon hasn't realised it yet, Bayley is one of the best things to happen to WWE in quite a while. Raw's Resident Hugger could easily be the face of the company in a time where women are rising up in professional wrestling. Her likability was cashed in on while she was in NXT, but that potential now needs to be realised on the main roster.
For the most part, it would appear that the lovable character Bayley portrays on TV each week is actually who the former Women's Champion is in real life. With that in mind, you would hope whoever was lucky enough to land her as a life partner is treating her right.
The lucky man in question is Aaron Solow. Solow is also a wrestler but hasn't quite made it to the dizzy heights of WWE just yet. He was an alternate for last year's Cruiserweight Classic but unfortunately never made it to the tournament itself.
#2 Mickie James
Mickie James has undergone a career renaissance as of late. The five-time Women's Champion returned to NXT initially for a one-off match against the undefeated Asuka. Clearly, the excitement of the women's revolution currently was too much for Mickie to resist, and she has since rejoined the company full-time.
One of James' most notable feuds was with Trish Stratus. The angle involved the Virginia native being rather obsessed with Stratus and the storyline eventually crested with James defeating her idol to become Women's Champion for the first time.
Even though that angle came early in Mickie's career, in real life she is actually attracted to men. The female Superstar is currently married to and has a child with fellow pro wrestler Nick Aldis, who is more commonly known as Magnus and is a former TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
#1 Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels is one of the few professional wrestlers who has been in the business a long time and has actually managed to make his marriage work. That will come as even more of a surprise to those of you who know the problems Michaels had with substance abuse and his general attitude throughout the 1990s.
Well, what probably helps is that Shawn didn't meet his current wife, Rebecca Curci, until the tail end of that tumultuous period in his life. Rebecca and HBK married in 1999 and have been together ever since.
Curci was once in the wrestling business herself, but not in WWE. No, Rebecca was actually one of the Nitro Girls that would act as cheerleaders to WWE Raw's Monday night rivals. How she met Shawn is anyone's guess considering the Hall of Famer never jumped ship to WCW, unlike many others.
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