Every Wrestling Reality TV Show, Ranked Worst To Best

In an odd way, the wrestling business has always been a reality show. In part because the men and women in the squared circle are always playing a version of themselves. While the storylines might be rooted in fantasy, sometimes those storylines are steeped in reality, too.

As the walls of Kayfabe fell more and more, fans got a real kick out of learning how the sauce got made. Couple that with the rise of Reality Television and you get the makings of some great wrestling-related Reality TV shows. Sometimes the reality shows are simply seeing a wrestler in their personal life, other times there is something behind the scenes, that fans gain access to. As with actual storylines on wrestling programs, reality shows don't always come out right.

9 Hogan Knows Best

If the late Superstar Billy Graham was the first ever Sports Entertainer in WWE history, Hulk Hogan of course was the modern day template for everything a Superstar could and should be. While he might have been an innovator as far as in-ring charisma goes, The Hulkster hasn’t been as much of a success outside the ring, he has continued to make attempts.

His reality TV show attempts have ranged from abysmal to mediocre. The two biggest ones were his Celebrity Championship Wrestling (in which Denis Rodman won), and Hogan Knows Best - where the exploits of The Hogan Family were revealed.

8 AEW All Access

The newest entry on this list is the brainchild of Tony Khan - AEW All Access. Thanks to the partnership between AEW and Warner-Discovery, the show is part of the new Max streaming service. The series focuses on the trials and tribulations of Adam Cole, Saraya, The Bucks, and several others.

Taking place from All Out 2022 until Adam Cole’s big return, there’s plenty of great backstage juice worth the squeeze with this show.

7 Rhodes To The Top

Rhodes To The Top might have seemed like a vanity project at first - one of AEW’s Executive Vice Presidents and his wife traversing the world. But the show was a great way to get a look at a new fledgling promotion and a young family with its patriarch wrestling with inheriting a legacy.

For those reasons alone, the show is a unique microcosm in both the career of Cody Rhodes and the early years of AEW.

6 Holy Foley

Most Reality Television series work very well because of the schadenfreudistic tendencies of the viewer to see a weekly train wreck occur. Having a weekly train wreck, or even attempting to manufacture one is awfully hard in your typical wholesome, so-saccharine-you-could-vomit family environment. But The Foley family gave it their all for the first (and so far only) season of Holy Foley.

Most of the series revolved Foley’s daughter Noelle, her journey to possibly enter the ring, and her literal clown of a boyfriend, Frank. Some of the funniest moments on the show came at the expense of the patriarch getting gently razzed by his two youngest sons.

5 Legends House

Taking a page from MTV’s The Real World, The WWE thought it would be a good idea to jam pack a palatial estate with some of the best names of the WWE’s Golden Era. Not to mention, putting them in ridiculous situations every week.

But the best parts of the Legends House series was when our heroes - like Roddy Piper - got emotional with their friends. Pat Patterson actually officially came out to his friends and fans on this very show.

4 Miz & Mrs.

While the idea of The Miz having his own Reality TV show is almost as obnoxious as The A-Lister is, Mike Mizanin is actually endearing as a son, husband, and father who tries to manage the non-stop chaos of his life as a WWE Superstar with trying to be the very best dad possible.

Despite being a heel, thanks to the show, The Miz has gotten some respect from the fans.

3 Tough Enough

What does it take to be a WWE Superstar? Do you have the grit and determination to become one? For several years, plenty of wannabe wrestlers from John Morrison to MJF and all points in between submitted tapes of their best stuff in hopes of WWE asking them to join Tough Enough.

Once they were called upon, the hopefuls would spend weeks training under the tutelage of several established superstars on their way to eventually and hopefully winning a WWE contract.

2 Total Divas/Bellas

Somewhere in-between The Ruthless Aggression Era and this current era, the ladies demanded a lot more focus on their division. They got it part and parcel thanks to Total Divas.

Focusing on the backstage and personal lives of the WWE Divas, Total Divas became a hit show for The E! Network. It also garnered a whole new fan base for the WWE to tap into. Those fans started to come to shows, joined The Bella Army and called for the changes that would come.

1 Most Wanted Treasures

In the olden days, veterans used to talk about how the road trips with fellow wrestlers was how they got that camaraderie between the boys, but also got a bit of a wrestling education. The fans get to experience that plus locating legends’ memorabilia from across the eras on WWE Most Wanted Treasures.

In a team headed by Booker T, Mick Foley and Lita are accompanied by legends like Rey Mysterio, Bill Goldberg, and Bret Hart and traverse the globe to locate items from their respective careers. The goal is display them at events and perhaps eventually in a physical Hall Of Fame.