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10 actors you didn't know were wrestlers: photos
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( h& B; M/ z# g6 XBefore playing Bane in "Batman & Robin," Jeep Swenson competed in both World Class Championship Wrestling and WCW., j: d, A5 |$ Q, q7 S
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8 }9 U9 g% J$ F$ zTyler Mane arrived in WCW in 1989 as Nitron.
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( K- ?) ~ @2 H: i/ K, J3 r0 IIn the early '90s, Mane became Vinnie Vegas's associate, Big Sky./ r5 x2 @' }1 o: Y. E9 |
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Mane really turned heads with his turns as Sabretooth in “X-Men” and as the new Michael Myers in the “Halloween” remake and its subsequent sequel.
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* F6 ~# }' P$ {$ T: f8 FWoody Strode was a barrier-breaking African-American wrestler who was one of the first black players in the NFL. He also had memorable roles in films like "Spartacus" and "The Ten Commandments."& Y; g: \7 E( S: q
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Lenny "The Bull" Montana is well-known as Luca Brasi from "The Godfather," but he was also an accomplished pro wrestler.
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6 F" y) H4 K7 {+ x3 v8 H/ i+ V5 @Tor Johnson, also known as The Super Swedish Angel, became a B-movie icon and starred in flicks like "Plan 9 from Outer Space."3 x1 u! y1 w9 n) N$ ~
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Does the face of wrestler Tosh Togo ring any bells?
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You might recognize him as Harold Sakata, the man who played hat-tossing Bond henchman Oddjob in "Goldfinger."5 M+ c8 Q7 L) V+ H
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Milton Reid, who wrestled as Mighty Chang, was nearly cast as Oddjob. He had a long acting career in movies like "Swiss Family Robinson," "The Return of the Pink Panther" and Bond flicks "Dr. No" and "The Spy Who Loved Me."
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1 H5 e% P5 f9 [Any longtime wrestling fan that gets a kick out of squared circle camp loves the 1989 cult classic “No Holds Barred” starring Hulk Hogan and Tom "Tiny" Lister as Zeus.# u3 U7 A$ k1 s X0 d$ S8 n
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+ i6 G" S: J+ J2 FLister also acted in movies like "The Fifth Element," "Jackie Brown" and "Friday."
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: W2 n. H I' P" J1 h& I% y, LThat year, Lister joined WWE as the same Human Wrecking Machine he played in the motion picture.
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Zeus wrestled at SummerSlam and Survivor Series, landed in the PWI 500 and later appeared in WCW." h$ h: y5 I( ?2 X( t: E# M, |
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1 h- W1 b3 v8 |3 W- IAlex Karras, who you might know as Mongo from "Blazing Saddles," was also a football player for the Detroit Lions and battled Dick the Bruiser in the ring.
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Karras' big role was as sitcom dad George Papadopolis in "Webster."+ v3 o; t! Q; c9 {, A
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1 x1 L7 n9 J# e. |Robert Maillet made a name for himself in WWE during The Attitude Era as The Interrogator — a member of The Jackyl’s Truth Commission.. J ?2 ^2 x- q+ ^; y
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Later Maillet joined the enormously popular Oddities faction and the behemoth was reborn as Kurrgan, complete with awkward dancing and tie-dye.+ V% l. `' r* P. B4 T
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Maillet first made waves in Hollywood as the bloodthirsty Uber Immortal in Frank Miller’s epic “300,” for which he won Best Fight at the MTV Movie Awards.
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. z6 L v( y4 O4 [! n9 H+ |/ HThe former Oddity nailed the role of Russian Jaeger pilot Aleksis Kaidanovsky in Guillermo del Toro’s adrenaline-pumping “Pacific Rim.”
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