Board 8 > Who is the best WWE wrestler-turned-actor?

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Johnbobb
02/20/22 7:29:11 PM
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movie/tv actor, don't do the whole "wrestling IS acting" schtick










arguably it's only really the first 3 in contention right now unless you're a huge fan of one of the one-off iconic roles like They Live or Princess Bride

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FFDragon
02/20/22 7:33:08 PM
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3. The Miz

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scarletspeed7
02/20/22 7:36:43 PM
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I wouldn't vote him, but Nathan Jones has had a better record of films than Big Show or Hulk Hogan.

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StealThisSheen
02/20/22 7:39:42 PM
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FFDragon posted...
3. The Miz


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Yesmar_
02/20/22 7:43:04 PM
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Roddy Piper has the best single movie of all of them, so I'll vote for him.

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redrocket
02/20/22 8:03:44 PM
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Yesmar_ posted...
Roddy Piper has the best single movie of all of them, so I'll vote for him.

Is that due to his performance though?

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colliding
02/20/22 8:07:49 PM
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Bautista is probably the best actor overall. best performance is probably the rock in moana

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junk_funk
02/20/22 8:13:24 PM
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Objectively, Dwayne is the best actor of the top three by a lot, he was a better actor than all those other guys just spitting promos on Monday nights.

Second to John. Peacemaker has pushed John over, but hes had some pretty funny comedy cameos and roles spread throughout before that.

Miz would be the next best.

The rest on that list cant act. HHH and Kevin Nash might be better actors than anyone else.

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redrocket
02/20/22 8:18:39 PM
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junk_funk posted...
Objectively, Dwayne is the best actor of the top three by a lot, he was a better actor than all those other guys just spitting promos on Monday nights.

Second to John. Peacemaker has pushed John over, but hes had some pretty funny comedy cameos and roles spread throughout before that.

Miz would be the next best.

The rest on that list cant act. HHH and Kevin Nash might be better actors than anyone else.

Holy wow the Bautista disrespect.

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Leonhart4
02/20/22 8:46:35 PM
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redrocket posted...
Holy wow the Bautista disrespect.

He was just standing so perfectly still that you couldn't see he was there

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BlAcK TuRtLe
02/20/22 9:03:14 PM
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How about Edge, and that really really bad airplane heist movie that came out a couple years ago

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Aecioo
02/20/22 9:04:54 PM
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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...
How about Edge, and that really really bad airplane heist movie that came out a couple years ago

Moneyplane!

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Johnbobb
02/20/22 9:34:58 PM
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hm to Mayor Kane in See No Evil

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banananor
02/20/22 9:49:45 PM
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i'm not one to rank actors usually- i tend to grade them on a pass/fail basis

the rock and bautista are great

i haven't seen peacemaker, but cena is alright.

andre the giant was amazing in princess bride, but i think it was more that the role was designed around him

they all pass. the rest are fine for cameos

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Lopen
02/20/22 11:06:23 PM
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1. Batista
2. The Rock
3. The Miz

Unironically

The rest are bad. Piper isn't terrible I guess.

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StealThisSheen
02/20/22 11:14:56 PM
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I was unsold on Cena until Peacemaker, but he's great in that.

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redrocket
02/21/22 9:05:09 AM
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Has The Miz actually been in a movie or TV show?

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LiquidOshawott
02/21/22 9:09:26 AM
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Batista has been in the best body of work overall so it might be why hes doing so well

Rock has been a good lead but hes got that Will Smith syndrome where he basically plays the same character every movie.

Cena actually has the potential to move up, his comedies and Peacemaker were pretty good. Guy has good comedic timing


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bryans7
02/21/22 9:44:55 AM
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redrocket posted...
Has The Miz actually been in a movie or TV show?

Outside the Marines movies (he did 3, 4, 5, and 6), imdb says just some random guest spots on tv shows.

He was on some Nickelodeon show and his character was named Clint Kickwood so based on that I'm giving the crown to him. Great name.

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Lopen
02/21/22 11:13:59 AM
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Miz Marine movies are actually decent. Well not sure about Marine 3 but the later ones he gets better.

Particularly the one with Shawn Michaels as his buddy was legit good in a cheesy action movie kinda way. I wanna say that was 6.

I mean it's not like, amazing, but I give his acting chops more credit than Cena's for it.

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AxemRedRanger
02/21/22 11:22:51 AM
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No Randy Orton?

This is an outrage. I demand you fix this at once.

I'll go to the papers if have to.

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voltch
02/21/22 11:38:01 AM
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Probably Batista.

The Rock is a great personality but he has shown me no range. He's just a one trick pony. He's good at his one trick, but at the same time I feel like if I see one film, I don't really need to see anything else from him.

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MoogleKupo141
02/21/22 11:49:32 AM
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Cena is shockingly good, but I think (at least based on my experience, which is basically limited to Batista/Cena/Rock) that Batista is probably the most talented actor of any of them. I certainly have enjoyed the Rock in things (mostly F&F), but I think his range is super limited and Im basically disinterested in seeing him in more stuff.

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Lopen
02/21/22 11:53:59 AM
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I will say I haven't seen anything from Cena in the past year or two so if he is great in Peacemaker I'd believe it. He seems like he SHOULD be better at it than he has historically ended up being.

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MoogleKupo141
02/21/22 11:58:57 AM
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Hes really good in Peacemaker. Nails the jokes and sells some legitimate emotion at times.

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junk_funk
02/21/22 12:27:39 PM
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Lol at the Batista love in this topic. And comparing him to Rock's range saying he has more. What a joke.

The guy is spoon fed funny one liners he has to deliver with a stone face (aka not really acting) in his major movie appearances. Does he even have a film out there where he actually acts?

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Snake5555555555
02/21/22 12:44:23 PM
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Johnbobb posted...
hm to Mayor Kane in See No Evil

Thank you

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XIII_rocks
02/21/22 3:12:16 PM
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junk_funk posted...
The guy is spoon fed funny one liners he has to deliver with a stone face (aka not really acting) in his major movie appearances. Does he even have a film out there where he actually acts?

I wouldn't say he's better than Rock either, but to his credit he improvised "why is Gamora?" which deserves great credit

Would also disagree that delivering all that stuff with a straight face is "not really acting", that's a bit of a silly statement. Like is Holt in Brooklyn 99 "not really acting" when he does deadpan jokes?

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scarletspeed7
02/21/22 3:16:23 PM
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Easy to see right now why wrestling fans get the reputation they get

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DoomTheGyarados
02/21/22 3:22:06 PM
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junk_funk posted...
Lol at the Batista love in this topic. And comparing him to Rock's range saying he has more. What a joke.

The guy is spoon fed funny one liners he has to deliver with a stone face (aka not really acting) in his major movie appearances. Does he even have a film out there where he actually acts?

Yikes

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Leonhart4
02/21/22 3:32:26 PM
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Doing deadpan well is not as easy as it looks

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LiquidOshawott
02/21/22 3:49:59 PM
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junk_funk posted...
Lol at the Batista love in this topic. And comparing him to Rock's range saying he has more. What a joke.

The guy is spoon fed funny one liners he has to deliver with a stone face (aka not really acting) in his major movie appearances. Does he even have a film out there where he actually acts?

Blade Runner 2049 he has a short bit but it really sets the tone for the movie

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Accel_R8
02/21/22 4:15:54 PM
#33:


Rock, Batista, Cena are all pretty great. Hot Rod was probably in the best movie of all of them but it was more "so bad its good". Love that trainwreck.

Also, yeah, the dude saying "lol deadpan isn't acting" doesn't know what he's talking about.

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StartAllOver
02/21/22 5:44:55 PM
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None of them, tbh.

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Jakyl25
02/21/22 5:47:36 PM
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Honorable mention: Randy Savage as Bonesaw

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Fastbreak
02/21/22 6:01:44 PM
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Austin not being remembered for Longest Yard checks out

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FFDragon
02/21/22 6:15:26 PM
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Bonnnnnesawwww is REEEeeeadyyyy

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ChaosTonyV4
02/21/22 11:25:50 PM
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Deadpan is acting, but saying Batista has range is nuts.

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Turducken
02/22/22 12:12:10 AM
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Do any of them really have range? From what I hear on Peaceman, Cena might have a little, but for the most the range in general for these guys consists of smug, deadpan, or charming rogue. Dwayne seems to not even have range in regards to his wardrobe -- saw something showing him in 4 near-identical outfits that were said to be from 4 different movies. Even if 2 of them were the Jumanjis, that's still 3 different franchises.

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ZeeksFire
02/22/22 9:13:00 AM
#40:


banananor posted...


andre the giant was amazing in princess bride, but i think it was more that the role was designed around him

Sometimes that's all you need, which also speaks well to the director to find a good casting for the position.

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INCEPTlON
02/22/22 9:17:33 AM
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https://youtu.be/mS9P06p5ovY

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FFDragon
02/22/22 9:37:18 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7YXONuF3dk

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Leonhart4
02/22/22 2:47:42 PM
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ZeeksFire posted...
Sometimes that's all you need, which also speaks well to the director to find a good casting for the position.

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Lopen
02/22/22 3:32:50 PM
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To Andre's credit there are some wrestlers I don't think could be cast well

Like Hulk Hogan, love the guy as a wrestling character, but yeah, just plays Hulk Hogan who can only really be Hulk Hogan-- you can't really cross cast him into a different role.

Triple H is like Hulk Hogan but without the wrestling character being good.

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Seginustemple
02/22/22 4:41:32 PM
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shout out to Goldberg in Santa's Slay

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