5 times WWE blurred the line between Kayfabe and reality

#4. Lana and Rusev break up in WWE and then get engaged in real life

Rusev and Lana's wedding

Chances are, if you're part of a tag team or any other type of group in WWE, that partnership is going to be split up at some point. That includes wrestlers and their managers. So, when we finally saw Rusev and Lana break up on WWE TV (the first time, anyway), nobody was particularly shocked.

Rusev's initial entry onto the main roster was that of a Bulgarian-born, Russian-sponsored "super athlete" managed by a blonde bombshell with nice legs and a suspicious Russian accent. It wasn't immediately implied that they were in a personal relationship - but as word began to spread that the two were dating behind-the-scenes, it got increasingly implied on TV.

Then, WWE decided that they were going to break the couple up, put Lana in an on-screen coupling with Dolph Ziggler (imagine that), team Rusev with Summer Rae (one of the most underrated female talents in WWE of the last ten years) and then just go with that.

Then Rusev and Lana got engaged in real life - and they weren't secret about it.

Suddenly, WWE had to scramble to explain why this couple who were at each other's throats just a week earlier were now going to get married.

All of this came back to focus during the Rusev/Bobby Lashley feud a couple of years ago. Lana and Lashley began an affair that eventually led to Rusev getting released from the company. Nowadays, Lana is in a tag team with Naomi, Rusev is known as Miro in AEW and Bobby Lashley is the current WWE Champion.