Are you brunettes to rumble ?: pro-wrestling matches in the movies
Submitted by cramoukji on Mon, 03/28/2005 - 09:03
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- Night and the City (directed by Jules Dassin in 1950, this classic "film noir" revolves around the underground world of fighting sports and stars the late great pro-wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko)
- The Highlander (the opening scene from the '86 Mulcahy cult movie features The Fabulous Freebirds and assorted stars of the time in a bout in a full-packed arena)
- Spider-Man (as in the comics, Peter first finds some fame in the Sam Raimi adaptation as a pro-wrestler, here he faces BoneSaw, a fictitious character played by the very real superstar "Macho Man" Randy Savage)
- No Holds Barred (stupid WWE(then WWF)-produced exploitation movie from 1989 featuring Hulk Hogan and others portraying fictitious wrestlers)
- Rocky 3 (Balboa the self-indulgent world champ faces Thunderlips, a pro-wrestler played by a young Hulk Hogan, in a fundraising boxing-wrestling bout)
- Ready to rumble (horrendous comedy starring David Arquette based around and produced by WCW in 2000)
- They Live (this might be a little stretch but the seemingly endless alley fight between the characters played by actor Keith David and pro-wrestler-actor Roddy Piper is so much like a pro-wrestling match)
- Escape from New-York (Carpenter shoots a more straightforward match here, inside a ring, between Snake Plissken/Kurt Russell and 70's pro-wrestling superstar Ox Baker)
- The man in the golden mask (french biopic starring Jean Reno as Father Vitorio Gaetano, a real-life mexican priest who used to wrestle as a masked luchadore to raise money for his congregation)
- Beyond the mat (candid documentary by lifelong wrestling enthusiast Barry Blaustein should not be watched by any fans of Jake The Snake)
List of movies that feature at least one pro-wrestling match in one form or another... All additions are obviously welcome