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Don’t be shy about shooting those over – the more, the merrier. Hey, ya wanna banner? TaylorMade is branching out: After the Rock showed off his family tree at the Wrestlemania kickoff show, I have to ask . .
. do they have the most people from one family to be successfully involved in the wrestling business? Yes. I did a quick count, and if you’re only including the members of the Anoa’i and Maivia families, you’ve got 23 wrestlers of note.
If you throw in Jimmy Snuka and his family, which some commentators do, that’s three more for a total of 26. If you add Haku and his relatives, which some may wish to do given current storyline affiliations, you’re up to 31. At one point in time, the Hart family was pretty close in size to the Anoa’i family in terms of number of wrestlers produced, but with this most recent generation of wrestlers to get into the industry, the Samoans have really blown the Canadians out of the water.
The only other wrestling family that I can think of which even comes close is lucha libre’s Alvarado family, which includes Los Brazos (and my favorite Super Porky) as well as current star Psyc.
