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3 ago 2019 · Non da oggi i wrestler diventano attori. Lo è diventato il grande Antonio Inoki, lo è diventato Lenny Montana (è Luca Brasi in Il padrino) e via dicendo. È tuttavia vero che nei tempi recenti la...
20 ago 2022 · I 25 migliori superhero movie di tutti i tempi. Da Batman a Spider-Man, da Wolverine a Wonder Woman. Passando per la ‘politica’ di Black Panther e l’animazione. La Rolling-guida...
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19 set 2014 · Wrestling's just like acting, right? Wil counts down the best film appearances by wrestlers and finds there might be quite a big difference
9 ago 2019 · To make one of the most obvious and overplayed comparisons in the world: pro wrestlers are just like superheroes – colorful, bright spandex-clad heroes and villains who battle over the fate...
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- Lex Luger
- Z Gangsta and Ultimate Solution
- Triple H
- Kevin Nash
- Randy Savage
- Edge
- Cody Rhodes
- The Rock
- John Cena
- Batista
13 years before Smallville hit the small screens, there was another show chronicling the teenage years of Clark Kent simply called Superboy. In the season 3 episode called Mindscape, perhaps inspired by the famous Alan Moore Superman story “For The Man Who Has Everything” a parasite affixes itself to the lad of steel, causing him to have vivid nigh...
Tommy “Tiny” Lister Jrand Robert “Jeep” Swensonwere never the greatest ring technicians. Both were hired for their impressive physiques. Lister was used by WWE to reprise his role as Zeus and to feud with Hogan and help promote the character’s villainous turn in Hulk’s 1989 movie vehicle No Holds Barred, and Swenson joined WCW in 1987 under the gui...
After The Rock’s role as The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns was successful enough to give the character his own spinoff film, despite minimal screen time and a horrific CGI final form, It was Triple H’sturn to try and make a run in Hollywood. Also starring in a sequel to a popular franchise, Blade Trinity, Hunter played a vampire called Jarko G...
It is a well-known fact that Nashplayed Super Shredder in the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. But do the Turtles count as superheroes? Do their ninjitsu skills and ability to pop their head in their half-shells count as a superpower? To avoid this debate Big Sexy is being included on this list for his role as The Russian in 2004’s Punish...
Spider-Man is no stranger to the world of pro wrestling, with the likes of Brad Armstrong, Rey Mysterio, Lio Rush and many more giving a nod to the webhead in various costumed tributes. Let us not forget in most telling’s of Spider-Man’s origin, his costume is inspired by Pro Wrestling one way or another. In the 2002 movie, it’s the career he picks...
Remember that time when Edgewas forced into retirement, cut his hair and decided to be an actor for a bit? Well during that time he had a guest role on The Flash. Copeland would play Al Rothstein, who was killed by an evil alternate universe Al Rothstein (also played by Edge) who takes his place as DC baddie Atom Smasher, who can grow up to 15 feet...
Another WWE superstar who made his way to the CW-verse is Cody Rhodes. Cody appeared in Arrow as Derek Sampson, an evil drug dealer who supplies a narcotic called Stardust (see what they did there?). After falling into a vat of the stuff (like all good DC villains do) he is resurrected with super strength and an inability to feel pain. Unlike Edge,...
This might be a cheeky one to include in the list as at the time of writing The Rockhas still yet to appear in a live-action superhero role, which is crazy to think looking at the scope of the Hollywood career The Great One has forged for himself. However, it has now been FIFTEEN YEARS since Dwayne Johnson announced his interest in the character Bl...
Peacemaker is quite an obscure DC character, and probably wasn’t on the top of anyone’s list for live-action adaptations, but for the last couple of years, Cenahas made the hypocritical anti-hero a household name. Wanting nothing more for the world than peace, and not caring how much violence and killing he has to do to achieve that, Peacemaker mad...
Of course, Peacemaker’s success isn’t all down to Cena. Director and writer James Gunn has a talent for making obscure comic characters more popular than they have ever been, a skill he showed off with 2014’s Guardians Of The Galaxy. Dave Bautistastarted his transition from the ring to screen through a series of bit parts and cameos before landing ...
In Mexico, the fight between good and evil has been waged every week for decades, thrilling generations of fans with the spectacle of Lucha Libre. Real-life superheroes and villains, these masked wrestlers put their lives on the line night after night to entertain the legions of fans.
Wrestling Superheroes: Regia di Kevin Dunn. Con Roger Barnes, Barry Darsow, Bill Eadie, Howard Finkel. Compilation tape featuring Demolition vs. Powers of Pain and Mr. Fuji, Greg Valentine vs. Jimmy Snuka (referee Ronnie Garvin), Rick Rude vs. Roddy Piper (steel cage match), Hulk Hogan vs. Hercules, and The Ultimate Warrior vs. Randy Savage.
