Arianna Grace didn’t grow up with the kind of shadow most second-generation wrestlers battle against.

Today’s WWE is full of performers carrying family torches – a tale as old as time.

Dominik Mysterio followed Rey into the ring, Charlotte Flair continued the Flair line, Bron Breakker emerged from the Steiner family, and The Usos carried the Anoa’i dynasty into a new generation – just to name a handful.

Grace, however, grew up with something stranger – or funnier at least: the shadow of Santino Marella.

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One of the most popular and family-friendly figures of his era, the man who won four titles in WWE did so with a sock puppet, a cobra strike and some of the most chaotic comedy the company ever produced.

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