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HULK HOGAN, John Cena, The Rock, Dave Bautista and more have jumped from the ring to the big screen – with varying degrees of success and appreciation. Get ready to rumble and we watch the Top 7 Wrestler Film Stars in action.

Jean-Claude Van Damme might be up to his old chop-socky tricks in action reboot Kickboxer: Vengeance, but the real star of the show is former WWE wrestling champ Dave Bautista, playing the film’s nails-hard villain Tong Po.

After roles in Spectre and Guardians of the Galaxy, Bautista is one of the fastest rising stars in action movies – but he’s not the only hulking superstar to make the jump from the squared-circle to silver screen.

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To celebrate, we take a look at some of the very best – and very worst – wrestlers in the movies.
Description: Fifteen time WWE champ and occasional actor. Like an inflated Mark Wahlberg.

Wins: Playing a terrifyingly tattooed drug dealer in Tina Fey comedy Sisters.

Losses: Action flop 12 Rounds, playing a cop who must complete 12 challenges to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend. If one of the challenges is “watch this movie”, she’s dead.

Greatest Movie Fight: Trying to talk dirty with tussling beneath the sheets with Amy Schumer is Trainwreck.

Signature Move: The “Five Knuckle Shuffle”. We’re pretty sure the Americans don’t know what it means.

Hulk Hogan

Stats: 6’8”, 303lbs

Description: Moustachioed wrestling legend and star of low-budget films. Santa With Muscles, anyone?

Box Office Wins: Rocky III, in which the Hulkster played “Thunderlips” in a wrestler versus boxer match against Stallone’s “Italian Stallion”.

Box Office Losses: If you thought Suburban Commando and Mr Nanny were bad, check out WWE’s abysmal Rocky rip-off, No Holds Barred. Actually, don’t.

Greatest Movie Fight: Despite his giant muscles, it’s a verbal confrontation – the Hulkster vs Gremlins in Gremlins 2. Unlike most of the acting, it’s cinematic gold.

Signature Move: The big leg drop. Thirty-odd years of landing on your rear like that that is asking for a sore backside.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Stats: 6’5”, 260lbs

Description: Hugely charismatic wrestler-turned-action star. Can wiggle his eyebrow like a good ‘un. Johnson is also the highest paid actor in Hollywood this year.

Wins: He’s the movie star in the world, so pretty much anything he touches is box office dynamite. The Fast & Furious movies are hard to beat though.

Losses: His first movie appearances as the mythical Scorpion King in the Mummy series.

Greatest Movie Fight: Taking on Jason Statham in Fast & Furious 7. A dream match if ever there was one.

Signature Move: The “Rock Bottom” slam. Even Statham gets one through a glass table for his troubles.

Dave Bautista

Stats: 6’6”, 290lbs

Description: Super-muscled behemoth, multi-time WWE, and breakout action star.

Wins: Playing lead henchman in $900million grossing Bond film Spectre is nothing to be sniffed at. Plus, a starring role in Marvel mega-hit Guardians of the Galaxy.

Losses: His movie debut Wrong Side of Town is exactly the sort of straight-to-DVD action film you’d expect a wrestler to star in i.e. rubbish.

Greatest Movie Fight: The climatic fight in Kickboxer: Vengeance. Brutal stuff.

Signature Move: The “Batista Bomb”. Prefers a good old fashioned pummeling in the movies though.

Jesse Ventura

Stats: 6’2”, 245lbs

Description: Colourful wrestling legend/actor/governor/conspiracy theorist.

Wins: Co-starring alongside Schwarzenegger as “goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus” in Predator. Roar indeed.

Losses: A supporting part in Demolition Man, in which Stallone is frozen and revived in the future to fight Wesley Snipes. Probably sounded like a good idea at the time.

Greatest Movie Fight: Battling his old pal Arnie in a final showdown of The Running Man.

Signature Move: The “Body Breaker” – a reference to own nickname, “The Body”. Don’t laugh, he was much sexier in the ‘80s.

“Rowdy” Roddy Piper

Stats: 6’2”, 230lbs

Description: Kilt-wearing loudmouth and one of wrestling’s greatest villains – also a surprisingly good actor.

Wins: John Carpenter’s They Live, in which Piper has a pair of magic sunglasses that reveal sinister aliens secretly control the world.

Losses: Hell Comes To Frogtown. He plays one of the world’s last fertile men and must impregnate a harem of women and fight giant frog monsters. Eh, what?

Greatest Movie Fight: His never-ending fist fight from They Live. It goes on and on and on…

Signature Move: The sleeper hold. Thankfully, few of his films will put you to sleep.

Kevin Nash

Stats: 6’10”, 328lbs

Description: Towering WWE champ who went by the ring name “Diesel”.

Wins: Playing over-the-hill stripper Tarzan in the Magic Mike movies.

Losses: A cameo as “Super Shredder” in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. At least he got to hide his embarrassment with a mask (which is more than can be said for his wrestling career).

Greatest Movie Fight: Duking it out with Thomas Jane’s marvel hero The Punisher.

Signature Move: In wrestling it was a move called the “Jackknife”. In Magic Mike it was… erm, you don’t want to know.

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