“Superfly” Jimmy Snuka’s son was known as Sim Snuka, or Deuce, throughout his professional wrestling career, though it didn’t last long in the WWE. Unlike his sister, Tamina, Snuka didn’t exactly have what it took to be a successful second-generation star.

He trained in Ohio Valley Wrestling beginning in January 2005, where he became known as Deuce Shade. There, he started teaming with Dice Domino, and when they debuted on the main roster on “WWE SmackDown” in January 2007, they became known as “Deuce ‘n Domino,” a 1950s greaser pair who were managed by Cherry. They won the WWE Tag Team Championships, though with the state of the tag division at the time, it didn’t exactly mean much. The team’s momentum stalled, and they were lost in the shuffle when the fans didn’t connect with them. Deuce ‘n Domino broke up in 200,8 and Snuka was turned away from joining Legacy.

What really seemed to kill Snuka’s career, however, was a botched spot involving The Undertaker at WrestleMania 25. Snuka was cast as a cameraman who was meant to catch Taker after he missed a dive to Shawn Michaels. Snuka didn’t catch “The Deadman,” and he landed head-first on the floor. “Superfly’s” son dropped the ball, and The Undertaker, and the heat on him backstage was almost immediate. Snuka’s release from WWE happened a few months later, in June 2009.

While he’s no longer in WWE, Snuka is still wrestling. He and Dice Domino have reunited to reform Deuce ‘n Domino and still take independent bookings.

Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat’s son, Richie, is another child from a wrestling family whose career in the business didn’t work out, though not for any reason of his own, but rather due to an unfortunate injury. Richie began his amateur wrestling career in high school, where he’d even compete against Reid Fliehr, son of Ric Flair. When he was older, he trained with George South and Harley Race before making his professional debut in July 2008.

He seemed to have a promising career ahead of him after working in Race’s World League Wrestling with stars like Tommaso Ciampa and Mustafa Ali, in addition to training at the Pro Wrestling Noah dojo in Japan in 2009. He signed with WWE in December 2009 and was assigned to FCW. He would win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championships with Seth Rollins, and the pair held the gold for five months. Steamboat also held the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship just before FCW was rebranded to NXT. He entered the tournament to determine the first NXT Champion, but was knocked out in the semi-finals by Jinder Mahal. His final match came in November 2012.

Steamboat suffered a back injury that required surgery, and it was rumored he was released from his contract in December 2013. In April 2015, his dad clarified that due to his son’s back surgery, he would not be able to wrestle again, something the younger Steamboat confirmed himself years later.

His father may have been known as one of the greatest Bad Guys in professional wrestling history and a founding member of the New World Order, but his son’s wrestling career sadly never took off to nWo-levels of success. Scott Hall’s son, Cody Hall, started to train as a wrestler with his dad starting in 2010, and started off his career in tag team matches with Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman. He got his break, the biggest of his short career, in January 2015 when he started training at NJPW’s dojo.

He debuted in NJPW the same month as the Bullet Club’s trainee. He was added, in part, due to Bullet Club’s similarities to the nWo. Hall made his in-ring debut in February in a ten-man tag team match alongside Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson, Kenny Omega, and Yujiro Takahashi. Hall worked matches with his stablemates until he suffered a serious spinal/neck injury at Invasion Attack 2016. After the injury, his profile was removed from NJPW’s roster, and he departed the promotion.

He’d go on to also wrestle in Pro Wrestling Noah beginning in April 2017 and DDT Pro-Wrestling. Hall was signed to MLW in 2020, but didn’t appear before he was released. His father’s death in 2022 had a big effect on him, and in September 2023, Nash gave an update on Cody. He said his best friend’s son was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and still recovering from his career-ending injury he sustained in Japan. Hall effectively retired from the ring to focus on himself, but said in 2022, he’d still like to be part of the wrestling world.