Biggest wrestling family?

[Dr Pepper]

The talk of Rock's relatives in another thread got me thinking about which family has made the biggest impact in wrestling.

Biggest influence, most popular, most hardware, whichever metric you want to use.

Oh, and.....not counting the McMahons - I don't care about spot-monkey Shane, he was never really a true "wrestler" in my books.

Rolled through a few of the top options and figured it came down to:

The Anoa'i family

-Yokozuna, Rikishi, Wild Samoans, Roman Reigns, Usos, Umaga, The Rock...just a long line of talent over the generations.

The Hart family

Owen and Bret.....plus a plethora of other wrestlers who have been linked to the Harts through marriage, or been trained by them.

HM to the Guerreros, Ortons, and Rhodes.

What say you, HF?

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[bruins309]

The talk of Rock's relatives in another thread got me thinking about which family has made the biggest impact in wrestling.

Biggest influence, most popular, most hardware, whichever metric you want to use.

Oh, and.....not counting the McMahons - I don't care about spot-monkey Shane, he was never really a true "wrestler" in my books.

Rolled through a few of the top options and figured it came down to:

The Anoa'i family

-Yokozuna, Rikishi, Wild Samoans, Roman Reigns, Usos, Umaga, The Rock...just a long line of talent over the generations.

The Hart family

Owen and Bret.....plus a plethora of other wrestlers who have been linked to the Harts through marriage, or been trained by them.

HM to the Guerreros, Ortons, and Rhodes.

What say you, HF?

The Von Erichs had a lot of people and they were inventing fake ones after a while.

 

[CaptainCrunch67]

I'd vote for the Harts beyond Bruce and Owen's exploits. A lot of the stuff that happened in the 70's and early 80's in Stampede were truly ground breaking. They had ladder matches before WWE, and a lot of the Bruce Hart booking was really the Attitude Era about 5 years earlier.

You look at the number of people that they trained and put in the ring.

I don't even think its all that close.

But I would probably want to throw the Funks in there too.

 

[Dr Pepper]

^Well yeah if you include Hart's "Dungeon" they've probably provided more entertainment than anyone else...I wonder if any of the other Anoa'i trained up there.

 

[ColePens]

I mean.. if you count all cousins and what not, I don't think the Anoa'i family can be beaten.

 

[Paris in Flames]

I mean.. if you count all cousins and what not, I don't think the Anoa'i family can be beaten.

Well. They have quantity for sure.

Quality goes to the Hart family imo.

 

[Loosie]

Well. They have quantity for sure.

Quality goes to the Hart family imo.

This is my argument.

By sheer numbers it's the Anoa'i family. By quality both in and out of the ring it's the Harts.

 

[CaptainCrunch67]

^Well yeah if you include Hart's "Dungeon" they've probably provided more entertainment than anyone else...I wonder if any of the other Anoa'i trained up there.

The Wild Samoans were a staple of Stampede Wrestling in the late 70's and they did train in the dungeon with Stu. It was more along the lines of additional training though and not their initial training.

 

[SladeWilson23]

Are we counting Bulldog and Anvil into the Hart Family? If so, I think it's the Harts easily. If not, it's still the Harts, but it's closer.

 

[CaptainCrunch67]

I probably would count those two in due to marriage, you would also have to include Dynamite Kid in the mix then.

 

[Del Preston]

All the Samoan wrestlers are related in some way.

 

[BonMorrison]

All the Samoan wrestlers are related in some way.

Poor Sonny Siaki.

 

[Loosie]

Are we counting Bulldog and Anvil into the Hart Family? If so, I think it's the Harts easily. If not, it's still the Harts, but it's closer.

If the Rock and the Snuka's are being counted in the Anao'i family then Bulldog and Anvil count for the Hart family.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

If the Rock and the Snuka's are being counted in the Anao'i family then Bulldog and Anvil count for the Hart family.

If you're counting Rock as part of that family, I'd go with the Anoa'i family.