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Ready to Rumble

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Ready to Rumble is a 2000 comedy film directed by Brian Robbins, and starring David Arquette and Scott Caan.Gordie Boggs (Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Caan) are a pair of friends who believe that Pro Wrestling Is Real. After they witness their favorite wrestler, Jimmy King (Oliver Platt) lose the WCW World Heavyweight Championship to Diamond Dallas Page (Diamond Dallas Page), they decide to help their idol win back his title. Hilarity Ensues.Compare with the WWF film No Holds Barred.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Sal Bandini appears to based on legendary real-life trainer Stu Hart. The lead Nitro Girl Sasha is based on Diamond Dallas Page's valet and former spouse, Kimberly Page. Jimmy King is based on Jerry Lawler and, to a lesser extent, Ric Flair; with the scene in which King is betrayed by his son Frankie being drawn from a real-life incident between Flair and his son David.
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Cool Old Guy
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Cool Old Guy: Sal Bandini.
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"Well Done, Son" Guy
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Gordie to his policeman father, and King to his parents.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Gordie's father originally qualifies as this, but he eventually becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold after watching his son on TV during the triple cage match at the end of the movie.
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Rebuilt Pedestal
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Rebuilt Pedestal: Gordie and Sean discover that their hero is a drunken scumbag who left his wife and son (and had another wife and two illegitimate children on the side) and made off with his parents' mobile home, and attempt to reform him. They succeed.
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All of the Other Reindeer
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All of the Other Reindeer: Sean and Gordie get picked on by all the other residents (save for Wendy, one of the waitresses at a fast food restaurant, and Mrs. MacKenzie, a kind old lady who swears a lot, both of whom are also wrestling fans) in their hometown for liking wrestling. Eventually, those very same residents become wrestling fans themselves towards the end of the movie.
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Smug Snake
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Smug Snake: Sinclair.
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Fat Bastard
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Fat Bastard: King's son Frankie.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The movie starts and ends at the Lusk Stop 'N Shop with Sean talking to three children about Jimmy King.
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Loser Protagonist
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Loser Protagonist: Gordie and Sean? Shitty jobs?note Literally, they're in the septic business Check. Hopelessly stupid? Check. Bad luck with women? Check. Humiliated at every turn? Check.
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The Worst Seat in the House
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The Worst Seat in the House: Gordie and Sean get BOTH nosebleed seats and a column underneath them when they are at Nitro in Cheyenne.
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Real Life Writes the Plot
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Real Life Writes the Plot: The scenario of King getting screwed by Sinclair was actually based on a real life issue between Eric Bischoff and Ric Flair. In April 1998, Flair was fired from WCW for allegedly no-showing a taping of Thunder. By the end of the year, Flair was back in WCW after filing a lawsuit against Bischoff.
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I Reject Your Reality
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I Reject Your Reality: Gordie and Sean simply refuse to accept the idea wrestling isn't 100 percent real.
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Gordie's father while lecturing his son about why he shouldn't follow his dream to become a professional wrestler.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never revealed what happened to Sasha after getting knocked out, or if Gordie even accepted to apology.
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: After King regains the WCW Title, Sinclair has one at the end before Gordie and Sean throw him into the crowd to get ripped to pieces ("What are you talking about? I made wrestling! ME! I MADE THEM ALL!!!")
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Titus Sinclair.
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Mean Boss
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Mean Boss: Titus Sinclair, the head booker of WCW.
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Finishing Move
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Finishing Move: Jimmy's is the "Crown", which looks like it hurts. It is basically a top-rope double axe handle.
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As Himself
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As Himself: Many WCW wrestlers appear in the film as themselves, including Goldberg, Diamond Dallas Page, Randy Savage, Booker T, Curt Hennig, Sid Vicious, and Sting, as well as the official commentary team, referees, and the Nitro Girls.
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Four of the characters in this film are based on the following Real Life wrestling personalities. Jimmy King => Ric Flair and Jerry "The King" Lawler Titus Sinclair => Eric Bischoff and his WWF counterpart Vince McMahon Sal Bandini => Lou Thesz and Stu Hart Sasha => Kimberly Page Gordie has some similarities to Glacier, being born into a family of police officers and deciding to pursue wrestling instead. His wrestling gimmick of "The Law" also borrows from The Mountie.
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I Warned You
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I Warned You: Sean tries to warn Sasha (who tries to make amends with Gordie, only for him to brush her off for snitching on them to Sinclair and getting Sal Bandini injured) to not hang around the ring during the triple cage match. She brushes him off, and gets smacked in the face with a ladder being swung around wildly, while Sean tells her what she could've done to avoid that injury:
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: Sinclair to Sting of all people.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: The duo (especially Gordie) tend to flip their shit when ever anyone says wrestling is fake.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Gordie and Sean do one when Bam Bam Bigelow, Perry Saturn, Juventud Guerrera, and Prince Iaukea execute the four post massacre on King, which leads him to losing the WCW Title to Diamond Dallas Page.
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Pro Wrestling Is Real
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Pro Wrestling Is Real: As stated above, the two main characters believe so, but while this seems to be subverted early on, the movie isn't very clear on it.
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I Call Him "Mr. Happy": King calls his testicles "balls". Gordie calls his "nuts".
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Follow in My Footsteps
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Follow in My Footsteps: Gordie is pressured by his father into becoming a police officer instead of following his dream to be a wrestler. In the climax, Gordie manages to follow his dream while dressing up as a cop, and earning his father's respect.
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Obligatory Swearing
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Obligatory Swearing: This movie has some pretty strong profanity for a PG-13 film, such as multiple uses of the word "pussy" (but being used as a euphemism for "wuss" instead of female genitalia.)
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The film's plot is drawn from two real-life incidents. The first involved the firing of Ric Flair from WCW by Eric Bischoff for allegedly no-showing the taping for the April 16th 1998 edition of WCW Thunder, followed by a wrongful dismissal lawsuit by Flair which ended in him back on the roster by the end of the year. The second is the nigh-infamous Montreal Screwjob, in which then-WWF World Champion Bret Hart lost his title to long-time rival Shawn Michaels during the 1997 Survivor Series, after Vince McMahon conspired with a number of in-ring and behind-the-scenes personnel to end the match prematurely while Hart was put in his own submission finisher by Michaels.
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Expy: Four of the characters in this film are based on the following Real Life wrestling personalities. Jimmy King => Ric Flair and Jerry "The King" Lawler Titus Sinclair => Eric Bischoff and his WWF counterpart Vince McMahon Sal Bandini => Lou Thesz and Stu Hart Sasha => Kimberly Page Gordie has some similarities to Glacier, being born into a family of police officers and deciding to pursue wrestling instead. His wrestling gimmick of "The Law" also borrows from The Mountie. Some events of the movie were also based on real-life events: Sinclair screwing King is based off the Montreal Screwjob, with a little bit of Real Life Writes the Plot (see below). Diamond Dallas Page's bump through the Triple Cage is based off Mick Foley's famous bump from his 1998 Hell in a Cell Match against The Undertaker. King getting beat up by his own son Frankie is based off a similar storyline with Ric Flair and his turncoat son David.
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Expy Coexistence: Even though Jimmy King is heavily based on Ric Flair, Gordie does an impression of Flair to impress Sasha, indicating that Ric Flair does exist in this universe.
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Hate Sink
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Hate Sink: The convenience store clerk constantly insults Sean and Gordie, and tossing the kids' bikes on to the curb. He gets his comeuppance at the end by being thrown his own glass door by Jimmy King, Gordie, and Goldberg.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: Not an attack but when Gordie's father searches him, Sean clarifies that he's grabbing his nuts. King's wife Eugenia kicks him twice. As he ices his lap, she admits to trying to break his "diddly". King claims his penis is bruised and also that it feels like Richard Petty drove his stock car at high speed into his balls. The outtakes show this taking 7 shots. DDP and King trade brutal ones in the climax. Sal Bandini kicks King during training, and King claims treachery as he groans and cries in pain.
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Big Damn Heroes: When Goldberg, Booker T, Billy Kidman, and Disco Inferno, with Gordie shortly following by flying over the entrance ramp on a police motorcycle into the doors of the triple cage, run in to save King from Sinclair's goons. Sting also follows by knocking Diamond Dallas Page off the top of the cage.
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Jerkass: The shopkeeper at the beginning of the movie. He gets his comeuppance at the end of the movie when Gordie, King, and Goldberg throw him through his own glass door. Gordie's father originally qualifies as this, but he eventually becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold after watching his son on TV during the triple cage match at the end of the movie.
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