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unusual facts about The Wrestler


The Wrestler

The Wrestler, a magazine published by Kappa Publishing Group and sister publication of Pro Wrestling Illustrated


Billy Robinson

12 October 1974 Robinson's image as a legitimate wrestler landed him a role in the film The Wrestler alongside Verne Gagne and Ed Asner.

Fred Ward Memorial Show

The first Ward tribute show in 2004 saw masked wrestler The Wrestler defeat GCW United States Junior Heavyweight Champion Vordell Walker and an 8-man single-elimination tournament in which the winner, Jason Cross, received an award from Mr. Wrestling II.

Independent Wrestling Federation

Other graduates of note include current Total Nonstop Action talent Rob Eckos (ring name Robbie E.), who is also mentioned in the Darren Aronofsky film "The Wrestler", and "Pretty Boy" Moby Plinko, better known as music producer Keven Maroda.

Robert D. Siegel

Robert D. Siegel (born November 12, 1971) is an American screenwriter for The Onion Movie and The Wrestler, as well as the writer and director of Big Fan.


see also

Arkangel de la Muerte

The wrestler who would become most known as Arkangel made his profesional wrestling debut in 1985, using the ring name "Mr. Cid", an enmascarado (masked) character partially inspired by El Cid, an 11th-century Castilian nobleman.

Boston crab

This move, also known as the Tarantula in reference to Yoshihiro Tajiri's naming of the move, involves a wrestler hooking each of an opponent's legs in one of his/her arms and draping the opponent over the top rope, at this point the wrestler would hook the arms of the opponent with his/her legs securing the hold.

Buck Zumhofe

He was the first wrestler to be put in a body bag by The Undertaker and was also the wrestler that Triple H faced in his WWF debut.

Camaleón

The wrestler known under the ring name Camaleón has on a few occasions stated that he began his wrestling career in 1999, but never revealed what ring name he worked under from 1999 until 2007 when he began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as Súper Camaleón ("Super Chameleon).

Johnny Kilbane

Kilbane was a distant relative of the Irish boxer John Joe Nevin, the footballer Darren Fletcher, the wrestler Giant Haystacks and the Irish footballer Kevin Kilbane.

Kenneth Richmond

Though he made a memorable appearance as the wrestler Nikolas in Jules Dassin's Night and the City, Richmond was most recognizable as the shirtless gongman banging the enormous gong preceding the opening credits for J. Arthur Rank's famed British productions of the Rank Organisation (movies such as Great Expectations, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and Kind Hearts and Coronets).

Lady Afrodita

The wrestler later known as Lady Afrodita was born in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico on July 18, 1990.

No Lucifer

The band point out in the album sleeve notes that this is in reference to the chant used by fans of the wrestler Big Daddy.

Tha Trademarc

Predka is the first cousin of the wrestler and actor John Cena.