When you’re on the road for more than three quarters of the year as a wrestling superstar, there’s a good chance you might find companionship with another member of the roster that turns into more than just a friendship. Over the years several Superstars have met and fallen for and perhaps even got married someone they met on the road. There are also some wrestlers who have met their spouse outside the wrestling world but have still found drama akin to a WWE storyline.
However, many of us know the statistics, a lot of marriages can often end up in divorce. But unlike most civilians, these poor unfortunate souls oftentimes have to find a way to coexist in the sport, should both superstars stay in the business after breaking up. There are some wrestling marriages that work out, others not at all.
10 Steve Austin & Debra
After meeting in 1998 when Debra first came to the WWE, Queen Debra and The Texas Rattlesnake started dating almost immediately. They would wed in 2000 at the now infamous Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. Debra even took part in some of Austin’s shenanigans when he was a heel in 2001. But then Austin’s life spiraled out of control both in and out of the ring. After Austin’s walkout on WWE, he and Debra got into a scuffle that saw the pageant queen unfortunately battered and bruised. The couple’s divorce was finalized in early 2003.
9 Charlotte Flair & Bram
In the ring, Charlotte isn’t too many titles away from matching her dad’s record - she’s only four reigns away from tying The Nature Boy. Out of the ring, sadly she’s also halfway to matching Naitch’s marriage record as well. She’s currently at two and planning number three to Andrade.
Her second marriage was to former TNA star, Bram. The couple was married for two years before calling it quits in 2015. According to their settlement, each party has waived their rights from receiving any money from one another's careers. Both wrestlers barely if ever even talk about each other, much less their marriage.
8 Kurt & Karen Angle
A few years after Kurt Angle won the Olympic Gold Medal, he married Karen and started his WWE career. By the time Angle had gotten to TNA, he and Karen had two kids together. Karen has filed for divorce in 2008, and to makes matters worse, news came out that she had been seeing Jeff Jarrett since 2007. TNA didn’t really seem to care for the emotional well being of anyone involved and turned the entire thing into a storyline that saw Angle emotionally abuse his former wife.
7 Kevin Sullivan & Woman
Despite not looking like an imposing force, there are fans to this very day that still think Kevin Sullivan is the Devil. The sawed-off pitbull was the head booker of WCW during the mid-nineties and booked his wife, Woman to be one of the valets for The Four Horsemen. But Sullivan inadvertently worked himself into a shoot during his feud with The Horseman. Both in storyline and in reality, Woman had left The Taskmaster for Chris Benoit.
6 Randy Savage & Miss Elizabeth
In one of wrestling’s great emotional moments, the reunion of The Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth at WrestleMania VII can still bring a tear to even the biggest cynic’s eyes. After several years apart on TV, Randy finally popped the question and the pair’s marriage actually headlined SummerSlam 1991. In reality, the couple had been married for quite some time. But unfortunately, Randy’s hyper-overprotectiveness forced Liz away and the couple split up in ‘92. They eventually reconciled their volatile differences and Randy was able to look after her in WCW.
5 Marc Mero & Sable
"Marvelous" Marc Mero provided a story about the bitter breakup between him and the bombshell Sable. As he has told on several different podcasts, after going back to the WWE, Sable would call Marc and their daughter every night to say goodnight. Eventually, the calls got less and less and he feared something was wrong.
Marc even left an angry voicemail for her. But then he decided he was being a fool and Sable was probably just tired. But when he went to delete the message, two messages popped in, and then Marc realized his paranoia was not unfounded. But forgiveness was given a whole new meaning when Mero found out the wrestler in question Sable was cheating on him with was Brock Lesnar. The Beast stole the Shooting Star Press and the TKO from Mero, might as well take the wife too, right?
4 Jerry Lawler & Stacy Carter
In early 2001, the WWE released The Kat from her contract with basically no real explanation given. Jerry Lawler decided that he would up and leave too in a show of solidarity for his wife. But that clearly didn’t mean squat when Stacy wound up staying out later and heading out with friends on weekends - she was cheating on The King. Thankfully, WWE still was able to welcome The King back with open arms.
3 Goldust & Marlena
Goldust and Marlena were the strangest couple of The Attitude Era. Alongside Sunny and Sable, Terri was probably one of the most popular Divas of the early Attitude Era. Unfortunately for the Golden Couple, Big Dust couldn’t leave well enough alone. As the story goes, as Marlena tells it - Dusty Rhodes had put all sorts of rumor and innuendo out there that she was nothing more than a gold digger and a cheater. It was enough to drive a wedge between the two and end their marriage. However, through a divorce, for the sake of their daughter, they were able to patch things up.
2 The Undertaker & Sara Calaway
During The Undertaker’s run as The American Bad Ass, he started riding to the ring with a muscular blond at the back of the bike. Taker loved his then-wife Sara so much, he inked her name onto his neck.
She was even involved in the abysmal stalking angle with DDP. She stayed off TV for some time afterward. They ended up divorcing in 2007 and Undertaker has since removed her name from his throat.
1 Steve Austin & Jeanie Clarke
As Stone Cold was shown the door in WCW, Lady Blossom was by his side, sometimes as his valet, but mostly as his wife. When he got to WWE, Lady Blossom stayed at home to make a decent family life for the pair while he rose to prominence. According to Clarke in her autobiography, Austin was abusive to both her, his first wife, drugs, and alcohol. She also claims that Austin made little to no attempt to be a father to their children once Clarke moved back to her native England. The couple divorced in 1999.