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10 actors you didn't know were wrestlers: photos
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Before playing Bane in "Batman & Robin," Jeep Swenson competed in both World Class Championship Wrestling and WCW.
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Tyler Mane arrived in WCW in 1989 as Nitron., i' U! t2 c1 y: A
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* X; H. [* [5 i# p8 T$ gIn the early '90s, Mane became Vinnie Vegas's associate, Big Sky. U+ E4 ^7 ]1 U1 C5 x
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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.4 M. M4 t' `' o* P) t. K
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4 K3 i/ a% H# A7 h- YWoody 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."9 `% g/ N5 q3 N% r1 c' K* Z
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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.! N: M% }8 ] R. `; x
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6 ~' `* O7 H- F1 u/ H8 X( MTor Johnson, also known as The Super Swedish Angel, became a B-movie icon and starred in flicks like "Plan 9 from Outer Space."/ w1 N' |. b5 ^
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Does the face of wrestler Tosh Togo ring any bells?- v) g4 B9 o( V/ i3 M' u6 R
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You might recognize him as Harold Sakata, the man who played hat-tossing Bond henchman Oddjob in "Goldfinger."3 \* m1 y. h0 o) t8 e. a# v6 K
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' \! @2 z+ Y7 y3 ~4 R% yMilton 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."/ B! b. b9 c% B$ Y( _& k1 G
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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.
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Lister also acted in movies like "The Fifth Element," "Jackie Brown" and "Friday."
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That year, Lister joined WWE as the same Human Wrecking Machine he played in the motion picture./ y& T, P& ]$ C4 O* E; @
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; v* m8 |7 @' j; v- o/ YZeus wrestled at SummerSlam and Survivor Series, landed in the PWI 500 and later appeared in WCW.2 L3 n& a ^8 h; @0 ~( v9 L" P: c
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8 j4 z& w) l7 d$ o6 ?; `% S: D/ n- S1 {* kAlex 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.# h3 a3 E c4 y8 D6 G6 [' s- f$ a
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Karras' big role was as sitcom dad George Papadopolis in "Webster."
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; A' n" B$ v) h1 ]2 oRobert Maillet made a name for himself in WWE during The Attitude Era as The Interrogator — a member of The Jackyl’s Truth Commission.# w2 l7 P5 `3 M/ e7 [# O
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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.& f5 x: F. g* g& r
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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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The former Oddity nailed the role of Russian Jaeger pilot Aleksis Kaidanovsky in Guillermo del Toro’s adrenaline-pumping “Pacific Rim.”
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