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10 actors you didn't know were wrestlers: photos
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, K$ V# r$ {4 E( XBefore playing Bane in "Batman & Robin," Jeep Swenson competed in both World Class Championship Wrestling and WCW.4 ?* A9 A" e$ D a
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0 G: }. C4 e D; N& n) {8 Y& H5 HTyler Mane arrived in WCW in 1989 as Nitron.
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In the early '90s, Mane became Vinnie Vegas's associate, Big Sky.9 U4 T' ~1 t$ ^ l( y" X r% c
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% n! X6 u! x3 s5 C& n. QMane 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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Woody 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."! m0 U. L# A7 ~
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& o' R0 U8 A: Z% n, uLenny "The Bull" Montana is well-known as Luca Brasi from "The Godfather," but he was also an accomplished pro wrestler.1 x5 E, x2 j/ K5 f$ B3 K
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6 s' t$ O. }1 @6 y1 ^Tor Johnson, also known as The Super Swedish Angel, became a B-movie icon and starred in flicks like "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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# H8 U' k. r7 f0 W# K6 s+ fDoes the face of wrestler Tosh Togo ring any bells?
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$ u" h+ o6 M5 c7 NYou might recognize him as Harold Sakata, the man who played hat-tossing Bond henchman Oddjob in "Goldfinger."% I9 v5 l; ~+ G6 Q! 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."- c: k# S! N' R7 p) X- `! M
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n' l7 ^1 K, w( SAny 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."& A, m/ Q3 w- `7 K2 K) p
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& `4 h4 T3 O5 CThat year, Lister joined WWE as the same Human Wrecking Machine he played in the motion picture.3 a* Z" E* O: M" g
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Alex 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./ O; W* a7 g# N3 [/ h7 e: h
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?( Z3 |# g. U" h, }; SKarras' big role was as sitcom dad George Papadopolis in "Webster."
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& ^! V1 w3 |# `% F0 HRobert Maillet made a name for himself in WWE during The Attitude Era as The Interrogator — a member of The Jackyl’s Truth Commission.
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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.) U( {$ I4 n+ |
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& A2 E" W" p. i: tMaillet 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." \3 d8 k# p3 | l
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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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