Meet The Real-Life Partners Of The NXT Roster

While relationships between skilled wrestlers are absolutely nothing latest within the industry and wrestling weddings are a tale as old as time, “WWE NXT,” the corporate’s developmental brand hailing from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, is nearly as notorious because the Olympic Village on the subject of stars stepping into relationships.

It’s often joked about amongst fans how quickly a few of these stars jump between relationships while still working alongside their exes in close proximity, and it’s something former D’Angelo Member of the family Adriana Rizzo even mentioned in an interview with Justin Stuckey back in September, where she revealed she was hesitant to go public along with her own “NXT” romance for awhile, because she initially didn’t need to dip into the PC dating scene. Nevertheless, for each relationship within the Performance Center that did not work out, there’s a hit story, some which have even led to engagements and wedding bells.

There are also other wrestlers working in WWE’s developmental brand who’re happily married to or dating other skilled wrestlers from a unique promotion. Others have chosen to maintain their work and private lives much more separate, dating and falling head-over-heels for individuals who don’t have anything to do with the industry.

“The Juggernaut,” former TNA Knockouts Champion turned “WWE NXT” star Jordynne Grace, is married to fellow former TNA and Ring of Honor star Jonathon Gresham. The pair got engaged in December 2018 and married in September 2020.

The couple worked together in what was then often called Impact Wrestling, after Gresham departed ROH after over a decade, following Tony Khan’s purchase of the promotion, starting in December 2022. On the time, Grace had been with TNA since 2018. Gresham became a free agent in January 2025 just as Grace signed with WWE.

Grace was by Gresham’s side after the previous ROH World Champion suffered two strokes in August. Gresham revealed that he woke up and couldn’t walk or move the left side of his body, and it took him half-hour to call for help. MRIs revealed he suffered two strokes, which he said might have been a complication from a nasty case of COVID, but said he was told he may never know the precise reason. On the time of his immediate medical issue, Grace was acting on a live episode of “NXT.” She flew back to Atlanta, where the couple resides, and was by her husband’s side when he woke up. Gresham was expected to be cleared to return to the ring inside a couple of weeks following his medical episode.

Former TNA and NXT Champion Trick Williams and Lash Legend are two powerhouses of the brand, and so they’re also an influence couple of WWE. While just after they began dating is not clear, the pair were together by early 2024 when WWE began teasing their relationship in storyline when Williams was briefly feuding with Meta 4’s Noam Dar and Oro Mensah. 

Legend and Williams were first on screen together during a March 2024 episode of “NXT” when Dar and Mensah attacked Williams. Legend went to affix in, but Williams intercepted her strike and planted a kiss on her in the midst of the ring. A couple of months later, when Williams was a guest on the faction’s “Supernova Sessions” segment on the developmental brand, their relationship was alluded to when Legend “unintentionally” called the then-NXT Champion “babe.”

Williams said in an interview on “The Wrestling History Channel” he was initially hesitant to substantiate their relationship in a storyline segment, because he didn’t want people attacking “something that is very sacred.” He said he actually spoke to CM Punk, who was backstage in “NXT” on the time, about it, and it was helpful when Punk told him it worked out for him and AJ Lee. Williams said, despite his hesitation, it was cool to let the fans in. The pair’s relationship remains to be going strong despite them not appearing on-screen together since, and so they recently bought a house across the time Williams won the TNA Championship.

Women’s Speed and Women’s North American Champion Sol Ruca is some of the popular stars on “NXT,” whose stock is increasing on the predominant roster alongside tag team partner Zaria. She can be dating “WWE Raw” star Tyler Bate, who first competed on “WWE NXT UK” and “205 Live” before making his predominant roster debut on “WWE SmackDown” in January 2024. The pair went public with their relationship via an Instagram post by Bate in the beginning of 2024, and appeared together on the WWE Hall of Fame red carpet over WrestleMania weekend to pose for photos that 12 months.

Bate was on the shelf for around six months with a torn pectoral muscle he suffered competing alongside Pete Dunne against Hank & Tank on an episode of “WWE NXT” in July 2024, but made his return alongside Dunne in March. Each men at the moment are the competitors underneath two additional El Grande Americano masks alongside Ludwig Kaiser.

Ruca won the Women’s North American title at Stand & Deliver over WrestleMania weekend. She scaled a ladder to drag down the belt after the title had been vacated by Stephanie Vaquer.

Ever since he left Charlie Dempsey’s No Quarter Catch Crew stable on “NXT,” Myles Borne has been on the up-and-up, most recently competing on Team “NXT” through the TNA Showdown angle. Borne’s recent matches in his feud with Lexis King, including a blindfold match, in addition to a lights-out match, have also gotten fans talking. The rising star can be dating certainly one of WWE’s hottest talents at once, Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer, who competes on “WWE Raw.”

It was former NXT Champion Oba Femi to really spilled the beans on Vaquer and Borne’s relationship. Femi noted, during an interview with a neighborhood television station before “NXT” Battleground alongside Vaquer, back when she was NXT Women’s Champion, that he could be defeating her boyfriend within the predominant event of the show. Borne was set to tackle Femi for the title on the event, and prior to Femi’s comment, not many fans were aware that the pair were dating.

Following Vaquer’s victory over IYO SKY to win the Women’s World title at Wrestlepalooza in September, Borne posted a black-and-white image of the pair on his Instagram account. He said he was happy with his girlfriend and called her special and amazing each out and in of the ring. He congratulated her and ended the post with an “I like you.” Vaquer left an equally as sweet comment on the post, where she said Borne was an “amazing man” who all the time takes care of her “like no other.” “La Primera” wrote that Borne has supported her because the day they met.

Carmelo Hayes could also be attempting to make a reputation for himself on the predominant roster now, but he met his soon-to-be wife after they were each competing in “NXT.” Current TNA Knockouts Champion and the inaugural Women’s North American Champion, Kelani Jordan, met “HIM” on the Performance Center. Jordan joined “NXT” in August 2022, and Hayes had been working there since 2021, prior to his 2024 call-up. The pair are one WWE couple who haven’t appeared together on-screen.

Jordan told “The Wrestling Classic” podcast back in August 2024 that she was a couple of months into training when she met Hayes. She explained they walked by one another, and it was as if time stood still. Jordan said Hayes messaged her first and “that was it,” and their first date was to go get tacos.

Hayes and Jordan announced their engagement to the world in a social media post in July. Jordan shared photos of the flowery beachside set-up where Hayes popped the query and captioned the photos, “I said yesss! And I’d say yes in every lifetime.”

Current NXT North American Champion Ethan Page is one star to maintain his family out of the highlight. Page got to the Performance Center when he was 35 years old after working in AEW and ROH. With him on his journey to WWE was his wife, Viviana Micevski, whom he married in July 2015. The pair shares two children together.

Page told Thunder Rosa in her YouTube “Taco Vlog” series in May 2022 that his wife deserves numerous credit for his success within the skilled wrestling business, despite not being a wrestler herself. He told Rosa that he was still in EVOLVE when he met Viviana and things were just beginning to take off for him. Despite the successes starting for him, Page said his wife was the breadwinner for his or her family for “many, a few years.” Page said that Viviana was the one who told him that he couldn’t stop wrestling, that she knew he was going to make it, and she or he’s the primary reason why he’s who he’s.

Current NXT Women’s Champion Jacy Jayne has had quite the successful 2025, from her shocking victory over Stephanie Vaquer to win the developmental brand’s top title back in May, to her victory over Masha Slamovich at TNA Slammiversary to win her first Knockouts gold. Throughout her successes, she’s not only had the support of her Fatal Influence stablemates by her side, but in addition the support of boyfriend Troy Hollywood, a fellow skilled wrestler whom she’s been dating for years. While Hollywood has never competed in “NXT,” he’s been seen in promotions like AEW, GCW, and REAL Pro Wrestling.

Hollywood posted a photograph to X (formerly Twitter) of the pair hugging and posing for a camera back in September 2024, which Jayne quote-posted, recognizing what was then their five-year anniversary. Hollywood noted that it “felt like yesterday” that Jayne introduced herself to him, and now, they’ve two cats together and have “only just begun.” In her quote, Jayne called Hollywood her “person endlessly.”

Shawn Spears is married to a well-known face within the skilled wrestling world, the previous Peyton Royce in WWE, now often called Cassie Lee in TNA, where she currently holds the Knockouts Tag Team Championships alongside the previous Billie Kay, now often called Jessie McKay. Lee and McKay were once often called The IIconics in WWE, and at the moment are the IInspiration.

Spears, the previous Tye Dillinger in WWE, and Lee married in August 2019 when Spears was still working with AEW. The pair welcomed their first child, after Lee departed WWE, in August 2022, and their second in June 2024. 

Lee told Chris Van Vliet in a May 2021 interview that she was drawn to Spears “right away” after they first met in WWE. A blushing Lee told Van Vliet she found her future husband “so attractive” and in addition looked as much as him due to how good he was within the ring. Lee admitted she made sure she was in the identical training sessions as Spears for each of those reasons.

Former Women’s North American Champion and Fatal Influence member Fallon Henley is one star not dating throughout the Performance Center. Henley, whose real name is Theresa Schuessler, signed with WWE in 2018 after first debuting in World Xtreme Wrestling in June 2017 and dealing over 20 matches in AEW. Somewhat than date throughout the wrestling scene, nonetheless, Henley is currently dating fitness trainer Philip Dyer and keeping her private life relatively quiet.

Dyer has just over 560 followers on Instagram, where he posts about his own training and workouts, as well progress made by his clients. He also posts photos alongside his girlfriend, most recently a carousel of images from the top of September, wishing her a comfortable birthday.

“They are saying ‘the difference between odd and extraordinary is just just a little bit of additional,'” Dyer wrote. “Thanks for making life just a little extra, would not be the identical without you… Love you to the moon and back.”

“The Don of NXT” Tony D’Angelo once ran The Family, an Italian mafia-esque gimmick on the developmental brand, but in real life, his family consists of wife Isabella Ariola, formerly Isabella Borini, who just isn’t a part of the skilled wrestling industry. The pair got engaged in December 2022, which Ariola announced on her Instagram account when she posted a photograph showing off her ring alongside a smiling D’Angelo in front of a Christmas tree.

D’Angelo married his wife in November 2024. He posted a photograph of himself alongside his bride to X, captioned, “Mr. And Mrs. Don! Salud!” Ariola shared a couple of more snaps of the couple, with Ariola wearing a surprising white wedding dress, on Instagram.

“The Don” reportedly asked for some day without work in WWE following his victory over former friends and stablemates Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo and Luca Crusifino. As of this writing, he hasn’t been seen on “NXT” because the match in July.

The previous “Underboss” of the D’Angelo Family, Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo, has found love throughout the Performance Center and is engaged to “Miss NXT” herself, Arianna Grace. Following the breakup of The Family, WWE has put “Stacks” and Grace together on-screen, with Grace most recently getting her real-life love a shot on the TNA X-Division Championship due to her father, TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella.

The couple got engaged during a visit to Paris in December 2024. Grace posted a series of skilled photos of their engagement in front of the Eiffel Tower on Instagram with the caption, “Yes to endlessly.” In September 2025, she took to her X account to share more about their relationship. She posted on the fourth that she and “Stacks” met 4 years ago to the day at an independent show in Miami. Grace wrote that she told Lorenzo she liked his pants, which she said he made himself, and “the remaining is history.”

Adriana Rizzo was also a part of the now-defunct D’Angelo Family on “NXT,” but like “Stacks,” she can be dating one other member of the roster. Rizzo, who’s currently on the shelf with a knee injury, confirmed on the “Stuck In My Thoughts” podcast in September that she and Darkstate member Cutler James are an item.

She explained that she had plans not to this point anyone in “NXT,” as she had tried to this point someone on a previous sports team up to now, and it was an excessive amount of for her. Rizzo said she didn’t talk over with anyone or date anyone immediately in “NXT,” but said James had a crush on her for over a 12 months before she finally gave him a likelihood when she realized she also liked him.

Rizzo said that while things are figuring out well for them, and she or he hopes to have a love story like Montez Ford and Bianca Belair, it isn’t something that’s for everybody. She mentioned the negativity that comes with dating on the job and what happens when things go flawed. She mentioned classes within the Performance Center, where a talent could find yourself wrestling an ex.

Lexis King, whose real name is Brian Pillman Jr., burst onto the scene in “NXT” in 2023 following a run in AEW. He’s been hot on the developmental brand in recent months together with his feud against fan-favorite, and boyfriend of Stephanie Vaquer, Myles Borne. “The King” is dating former “NXT” talent Emma Diaz, whose real name is Carolina Cruz, and the couple seems incredibly comfortable together in King’s photos posted to his Instagram account. King shares loads of photos of himself and his girlfriend, including loads of photos of the pair having fun with their time together at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

Cruz was featured on “WWE: Next Gen,” a documentary series that aired on Roku in the primary half of 2024. She was released from the corporate shortly after the series aired, in May, and within the announcement of her departure on social media, said she could be taking independent bookings. Cruz has had loads of matches since her WWE departure, including on “AEW Collision’s” homecoming special, where she teamed with Dream Girl Ellie in a loss against TayJay.

Thea Hail has been working her way back up the cardboard in “NXT” after a five-month hiatus following the dissolution of the unique Chase University, but she’s been a force on the developmental brand and a fan-favorite since 2022. She’s dating fellow talent Harlem Lewis, who debuted on “NXT Level Up” in October 2024.

It isn’t clear when the couple first began dating, but Hail took their relationship public, making them “Instagram official,” over WrestleMania 41 weekend in Las Vegas. Hail posted a carousel of photos on her account, featuring a photograph of the couple in a casino where Hail is seen planting a kiss on Lewis’ cheek. For the reason that initial ‘Mania weekend post, Hail and Lewis have kept their relationship quiet, though Hail posted one other photo of an injury to her lip, where she’s posed alongside Lewis, in August. She captioned the post “evil twin,” and Lewis responded within the comments with the pointing Spider-Men meme.

Tatum Paxley has been a staple on the “NXT” roster since 2021, and she or he is married to a former “NXT” talent in “Big Body Javi” Javier Bernal. The pair were actually signed to WWE at the identical time, and Bernal revealed in an interview with “Scott’s Scoops” in June, following his release from the corporate, that the try-out in Las Vegas where they were signed was actually the primary time the couple met.

Bernal said they didn’t interact much at first outside of claiming “hello” to one another, but he said he felt like they were very drawn to one another. Their connection grew over time, and so they were married in September 2024 after getting engaged the previous 12 months. While Bernal was released from WWE in May, amongst talent like Braun Strowman, Cora Jade, Gigi Dolin, Gallus, and more, he told “Scott’s Scoops” that he’s grateful for his time in the corporate, since it led to him meeting Paxley.