Biggest Nepo Baby In Wrestling?

[Devon Malcolm]

EC3.

[weevil]

Somewhat off topic, but, there seems to be very few second generation Japanese wrestlers. Why is that?

[Hannibal Scorch]

15 minutes ago, weevil said:

Somewhat off topic, but, there seems to be very few second generation Japanese wrestlers. Why is that?

Course there are. How many Tiger Masks have there been?

[Arch Stanton]

20 minutes ago, weevil said:

Somewhat off topic, but, there seems to be very few second generation Japanese wrestlers. Why is that?

Imagine how strict a Japanese wrestler dad is going to be. Those kids will grow up wanting fuck all to do with it.

[DEF]

Tamina has been been with the company since 2010. 15 years! and has done absolutely nothing of note and value. Nia might be more dangerous (probably worse) but at least she has a bit of presence. Tamina hasn't managed a thing in all that time.

[TheScarlettChad]

Nia was dogshit for years, but she's become a decent big woman.

[Hannibal Scorch]

Just now, TheScarlettChad said:

Nia was dogshit for years, but she's become a decent big woman.

This sounds like something Bob Mortimer would say on Would I Lie To You.

[TheScarlettChad]

3 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

This sounds like something Bob Mortimer would say on Would I Lie To You.

Well she is a woman, I know she's not like most girls but I'd hardly call her a big man, would I?

[RIDDUM_N_STYLE]

13 minutes ago, DEF said:

Tamina has been been with the company since 2010. 15 years! and has done absolutely nothing of note and value. Nia might be more dangerous (probably worse) but at least she has a bit of presence. Tamina hasn't managed a thing in all that time.

Tamina got quietly released and retired some time ago

[DEF]

8 minutes ago, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

Tamina got quietly released and retired some time ago

Yeah I had a look on her wiki after writing that and she was there until July 2024. So still 14 years worth of nothing.

[Devon Malcolm]

44 minutes ago, TheScarlettChad said:

Nia was dogshit for years, but she's become a decent big woman.

*leans into mic* She has not.

[Surf Digby]

1 hour ago, TheScarlettChad said:

Nia was dogshit for years, but she's become a decent big woman.

Are you posting from the future?

[Hannibal Scorch]

27 minutes ago, Surf Digby said:

Are you posting from the future?

Even Dr Strange hasn’t seen that multiverse.

[air_raid]

Nicholas, obviously.

It's a bit tough to gauge where Nia falls. No, that's not a critique of her lack of skill, I don't mean whether she falls out of the ring or whether she falls onto her opponent causing injury, I mean whether she falls into the category of "Would never have got a chance or pushed as strong without her family ties" or there's enough of "her size got her a spot" too. For better or for worse, she stands out.

David Sammartino always stood out for me but I don't know whether it's that he was awful or just that he couldn't live up to expectations. Greg Gagne is a fantastic one because it wasn't just "connections," it was literally his dad giving him the main event push. Charlotte is a pretty good shout because however good she actually is, and however many decent matches she's had (and she has), there's no way she'd have had the lengthy PPV win streak, won the title as often, got shoehorned into the Mania 35 main event and generally been presented as "best EVER!!1!" if she wasn't Ric Flair's kid. Shane O'Mac deserves an honourable mention for being positioned as a credible opponent for The Undertaker inside Hell In A Cell when there were only so many matches left on the clock for Taker. Erik Watts probably gets the bulk of his criticism from fans who weren't watching at the time, due to the Internet fame of the "worst dropkick ever" but it's true that he sucked balls. It was terrible that he got to the final of that TV title tournament, and speaks of the talent of Mr Wonderful that it wasn't an even worse match than it ended up.

The joint winners for me are Tamina and Natalya. If we were basing the answer purely on "didn't deserve a push because of how crap they were" it's Tamina all the way. Terminally boring and never a part of anything worth remembering, but it's worth noting she didn't actually achieve all that match. Nattie on the other hand has always been dull as ditchwater and assembled about three decent matches ever in a LOOOOONG career in WWE (and two of those were in NXT), yet got a couple of title reigns and is constantly referred to as a "legend" and "pioneer" and other words that simply would never be associated with such a bang-average career if her mum hadn't been Bret's sister.

Oh, go on then... here's that dropkick.

 

[Cod Eye]

It's got to be Gulas, hasn't it?

So bad in the ring and so over pushed it actually killed the territory, telling an uncooperative NWA champion Harley Race "Daddy says sell" during a match, being the featured performer on a show poster before he had even debuted and was only a referee. The stories are legendary. 

Most others in here may have traded off their more illustrious parents names/careers/contacts, but (barring Greg Gagne, I suppose) none have actually tanked their own fathers businesses. The fact Jarrett's part of the territory(where he wasn't really booked) survived is damning!