Artistic License History / Fighting with My Family

• Saraya goes by the ring name Paige at her tryout. Her ring name on the indies was actually Britani Knight, and she wasn't renamed Paige until after she had been in WWE for a few months (as is usual with new signees). The Paige character was also originally conceived as a Lisbeth Salander Expy, with the Not Like Other Girls aspects not surfacing until she formed a tag team called 'The Anti-Diva Army' with Sofia Cortez.
• The Rock had very little to do with WWE during the timeline of the story, Saraya and Zak did not come across him in London and he had just returned about the same time Paige made her debut.
• The film shuffles around a real event to much later in the timeline - Saraya giving herself a makeover to fit the 'Diva Look'. The real girl actually did that for her tryout - claiming she tanned and lightened her hair - and wasn't signed. She was however signed at her second tryout, where she went in dark-haired.
• Saraya is seen creating a cardboard replica of the Diva's Championship as a child/pre-teen. The Diva's Championship was created in July 2008, a month shy of the real Saraya's sixteenth birthday.
• Pete Dunne is donning his hairstyle from 2017 onwards while on a 2011 tryout.
• The film depicts Roy Knight as being imprisoned. While he was really incarcerated, it happened years before the film's timeline. In fact he was featured in the documentary the film is based on.
• One of Saraya's three main contemporaries is wearing Alexa Bliss' original wrestling gear. Bliss' televised in-ring debut in NXT was for the Tournament Arc to crown the new NXT Women's Champion after Saraya moved to the main roster. Likewise, the remaining two contemporaries are wearing Kelly Kelly and Eve Torres' wrestling gears despite the two never being members of NXT, not to mention retired by the time NXT fully became a developmental brand.
• Hutch mentioned he fought The Rock inside Hell in a Cell. The Rock only competed inside the structure once in his career (during Armageddon 2000), and it was against Kurt Angle, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Triple H, and Rikishi.
• The movie glosses over the success Paige had in NXT, as she had actually rose to become champion, and instead focuses more on that level being a bonding experience with the other girls. As a result, when she has her big break in WWE, it comes across as a complete nobody walking into the ring, rather than the second-stringer confronting the Title Holder it actually was.
  • The movie also plays that the crowd — and A.J. Lee herself — had no idea who Paige was. In real life, the crowd (the typically slightly "smarky" post-Wrestlemania crowd) knew exactly who she was and cheered accordingly, and AJ's first question to her when she got in the ring was not "Who are you?" but rather "What are you doing here?" The real life match also received a measure of infamy for Paige's "Paige Turner" finisher noticeably not connecting properly, but in the film, it is executed perfectly.
  • The match also has two additions, Paige freezing in stage fright before the Trash Talk, and her delivering a speech upon victory.
• The Raw and SmackDown logos are of the ones from 2016, despite Paige's iconic Raw debut happening in 2014 and the visit to SmackDown supposedly happening in 2011. WWE's post-2014 logo also appears in scenes set well before that year, the most egregious instance being the prologue set in the early 2000s (when the company was known as the WWF; the settlement with the World Wide Fund for Nature prohibits any use of the logos affiliated that name on any new WWE-associated footage).
• At WrestleMania XXX, A.J. Lee is seen submitting a blonde woman to retain the Diva's Championship. In the actual event, she submitted the African-American Naomi. Since the actual match was a multi-opponent match that did include three blondes (Natalya Neidhart, Emma, and Summer Rae), it's unclear if this is a case of Race Lift or the movie swapped Naomi with one of the three mentioned.
• Sheamus is donning his mohawk from 2015 onwards. He should still be sporting his Anime Hair as his appearance in the film is during early 2014.
• The Miz is wearing his merchandise from 2016 during WrestleMania XXX, which was held in 2014.
• The beginning and ending of Paige's WWE debut match played differently. Here she was initially stricken with stage fright and after her victory makes a Patrick Stewart Speech and then celebrates in the middle of the ring. In the actual event Paige was able to say her lines, and immediately after winning celebrates outside of the ring while having Tears of Joy. Also AJ's enforcer, Tamina Snuka, is Adapted Out.
• Paige and AJ's respective wrestling gear:
  • A.J. Lee is depicted as wearing white during WrestleMania XXX. In the actual event she was wearing a black top with print, red jean shorts, and black footwear with white accents.
  • During her debut match, Paige is wearing all black whereas AJ has an all red outfit. In the real event, Paige was wearing purple with black accents while AJ was wearing a black top with print, black and pink jean shorts, and black footwear with white and pink accents. ^note The real Paige has gone on record saying she hated that purple gear as it was Vince McMahon who insisted she wear that, so the film uses one that is similar to her actual wrestling gear. In AJ's case, this was done to visually contrast her and Paige as the real AJ also had an overall "edgy" look that was not too different from Paige
• The prologue has Saraya and Zak as children fighting over watching King of the Ring 2000 or an episode of Charmed (1998). King of the Ring 2000 happened on June 25, 2000 (implying that is the date when the prologue scene happens) when Charmed was on the summer break between its second and third seasons. This would imply that the episode of Charmed was a rerun, but the clip shown is from an episode that originally aired during the show's fifth season on September 29, 2002.
• The Knight Family training school is treated as a welcoming environment with Julia acting like a Team Mom. In real life it was known in the Britwres scene as an overly rough school even before Jetta and Charlie Morgan accused them of physical and homophobic abuse in 2020.