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Take Down is a 1979 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Kieth Merrill, starring Edward Herrmann, Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Lloyd, Maureen McCormick, and Stephen Furst.Mingo Junction High School hasn't beaten their rival Rockville in any sport for nine years. After a humiliating defeat at football, the seniors decide the best shot they have at winning is wrestling – and, with no other options, the new English teacher Ed Branish (Herrmann) is pressed into being their coach. It's up to Ed, a nerd with no experience with wrestling or much of anything besides Shakespeare, to somehow take this Ragtag Bunch of Misfits and turn them into a winning team. The key to victory might be recruiting Nick Kilvitus (Lamas), the extremely talented but conflicted student currently failing Branish's class...A Box Office Bomb, this film nevertheless was distributed (though not made) by Disney and thus has the distinction of technically being the first film the company released with a PG rating.Due to its limited release, finding a physical copy somewhere can be difficult, though at the moment it is currently available on Youtube. | |
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Heroic RRoD | |
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Heroic RRoD: Bobby abruptly collapses during one of his matches despite wanting to continue—the first sign he's caught his Soap Opera Disease. | |
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Man Bites Man | |
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Man Bites Man: In a wrestling match, nobody bites like Macgrudder! | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Let's just say that Nick losing 3.5 pounds in an hour and a half to make weight for his match by sweating and running around the school—and still having endurance enough to wrestle afterwards—is extremely unlikely. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Radman the Mingo Junction football coach is curiously given a name despite never appearing. | |
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Dare to Be Badass: The Mingo Junction principal gives Ed Branish the job of wrestling coach and refuses to let him give up when Ed tries to quit, telling him there's more to coaching than wrestling and expecting him to have a team ready to compete for their first match. | |
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Bathroom Stall Graffiti: As read by Macgrudder, while awaiting his "cleansing bubble": | |
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Mauve Shirt: Kier, the quarterback of the Mingo Junction football team, is originally set up to be one of the main student characters alongside Yacabobich, but he mostly disappears after the first few scenes and we don't even see his final match (which it's implied he lost.) The role of Yacabobich's Lancer is instead filled by Washington. | |
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Theme Music Powerup: Invoked and exploited with a diegetic in-universe example: Palumbo is all but undefeatable when his special music is playing. Once the team figures this out, they spend the rest of the movie finding ways to play the song to make sure he wins his matches. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Nick gets one in preparation for the final match. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Yacabobich is the largest member of the cast and one of the nicest, especially seen in how he takes care of Bobby. | |
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Agony of the Feet: How No-Toe became No-Toe: he was riding his bike one day and his toe got caught in the sprocket and cut off. And then his dog ate it. | |
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Batman Gambit: When Washington tries to recruit Macgrudder for the team, Macgrudder at first refuses, saying he doesn't have the physique. Washington notices Macgrudder has eyes on one of the cute girls in the school and has her tell Macgrudder she loves wrestlers, knowing this will get him to join. | |
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Delayed Reaction: Ed is so focused on the final competition against Rockville that he replies to Jill's news that she's pregnant with a "Great. See you later", only realizing when he's halfway across the room. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: When Coach Branish learns Nick's graduation has been denied, he decides to tell Nick right before his match so that if Nick was only competing to get Branish's English lessons and graduate, he can sit his match out. This backfires spectacularly by making Nick mad and getting him disqualified from wrestling. | |
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Butt-Monkey: Randy doesn't win a single match and spends a good chunk of his screentime being tossed around by actual athletes. | |
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Big Game | |
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Big Game: The final wrestling meet against Rockville. It plays with the usual formula a bit: while Mingo Junction generally loses in the first half and makes up the gap in the second, they still win the very first match and their early losses are justified in that their best wrestlers are all in the heavier weight classes. Coach Branish also gives his rousing speech before the meet begins and doesn't give a second one later. Still, Yacabobich's match against Lardner ends with the standings such that Mingo Junction can only win if Nick gets a pin. | |
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Advertised Extra: Brooke is featured prominently on most versions of the cover and given And Starring billing, but ultimately has absolutely no bearing on the plot and is merely a Satellite Love Interest. (It's her brother Bobby, not her, that finally motivates Nick into rejoining the team.) | |
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You Say Tomato | |
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You Say Tomato: In a brief moment of racial tension, Kier makes fun of how Macgrudder says "cotton" and Macgrudder tells him to back off. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
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Redshirt Army: Mingo Junction's 105, 112, 119, and 126-weight wrestlers aren't named in-film, don't get any lines, and all lose their final matches against Rockville. | |
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Flawless Token: Washington comes close to playing it straight by winning each of his matches, but Macgrudder averts it, losing every match until his last. | |
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Mistaken for Badass | |
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Mistaken for Badass: The team is so nonplussed by their English teacher being assigned as their wrestling coach that Washington concludes Mr. Branish must actually be a skilled wrestler or he'd never take the job. Yacabobich decides to test this theory, though fortunately Ed's practiced a few moves by this point on Jill and pulls off a takedown, forever silencing his team's doubts. | |
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The Lancer | |
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The Lancer: Chauncey Washington to Yacabobich. They are the two best wrestlers on the team when it's first formed and the most invested in keeping the team going. Washington, however, usually lets Yacabobich take the lead in motivating the others, and when Yacabobich doubts Branish's coaching credentials, Washington sticks up for Branish. | |
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The Leader | |
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The Leader: While Nick is The Hero and gets the final match against Baron, he joins the team late and isn't present for many of their matches. It's Yacabobich who had the idea for the team and leads out most often in organizing and motivating them when Coach Branish isn't around. | |
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'70s Hair | |
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'70s Hair: Naturally, seeing this film was made in 1979, though Nick, Baron, and Lardner are the best examples. | |
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Silent Antagonist: Baron never talks (at least, not that the audience can hear), presumably to make him feel more like a force of nature to the audience. | |
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Big Guy Fatality Syndrome | |
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Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: While he doesn't die, Yacabobich—the biggest member of the team and the originator of the whole plan to wrestle—is the only one of the major named team members to lose his final match, setting the stakes for the final between Nick and Baron. | |
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Hockey Mask and Chainsaw | |
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Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: Macgrudder's opponent on the Rockville team is wearing a Jason-esque mask over his face, though naturally he lacks a chainsaw. (Surprisingly, this film came out three years before Jason donned the mask.) | |
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Uptight Loves Wild | |
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Uptight Loves Wild: Ed Branish is bookish, introverted, and arrogant; his wife Jill is much more friendly and energetic and even a bit of a good-natured prankster at times. Still, their marriage is mostly a happy one, and only improves along with Ed's Character Development. | |
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Establishing Character Moment: Nick Kilvitus' first scene is him covering his dad's shift at the local steel mill... and effortlessly picking up a heavy I-beam by himself. The first we see of Baron is him easily scoring a touchdown and celebrating about it. | |
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Alcoholic Parent | |
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Alcoholic Parent: Nick's dad is frequently getting drunk and missing his shift, leading Nick to skip school to cover his shift at the steel mill. | |
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Satellite Love Interest | |
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Satellite Love Interest: Brooke doesn't do much in the film besides be a love interest for Nick. | |
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Jerk Jock | |
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Jerk Jock: Downplayed. The closest the film gets to one, Baron, seems arrogant but has no real villainous qualities or Kick the Dog moments. | |
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The Voiceless | |
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The Voiceless: At no point does the audience ever hear Baron speak. We see him talking to Coach Kawa while watching Nick compete halfway through the film, but it's drowned out by the noise of the crowd. | |
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Lovable Jock | |
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Lovable Jock: As the story revolves around a wrestling team, a huge portion of the cast are these, though Yacabobich is probably the best example. They aren't afraid to use their status as seniors and athletes to influence other people in the school, but their intentions are good and they're mostly nice guys. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: Macgrudder's reaction to seeing his masked Rockville opponent is to turn around and mutter a silent "Why?" to the sky. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Baron gets one, with menacing lower brass. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: The headlock and throw that Ed practices on a patient Jill is later what Nick uses to turn the tables on Baron. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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Fish out of Water: Ed Branish, a stick-thin English-teaching nerd, is assigned to coach a wrestling team full of jocks. At first he is horrified and clueless as to what to do, but with a little help and encouragement from Jill, he starts to value his young men, takes to the task, and learns how to teach and motivate them—with a few Shakespeare quotes still dropped along the way. | |
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Achilles in His Tent: A good chunk of the story is dedicated to convincing Nick to join and stay on the team. It takes a What the Hell, Hero? from Bobby about how he wants to stay on the team but can't because of his Soap Opera Disease, while Nick can but won't, to finally get him to commit for good. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Leroy Baron. He is an "all-American super jock" good at both football and wrestling. | |
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Evil Is Bigger | |
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Evil Is Bigger: Baron is noticeably larger and more muscular than Nick. Brings up some Fridge Logic of how he passes the weight requirements when Nick has to work to meet them. | |
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Curb-Stomp Cushion | |
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Curb-Stomp Cushion: Rockville's other champion athlete, the heavyweight Lardner, is similarly undefeated like Baron and has won each of his prior matches by pin. While he's still clearly better than Yacabobich and is an instant away from a pin by the time the match is called, Yacabobich puts up a good enough fight to hold him off. | |
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Hold the Line | |
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Hold the Line: Yacabobich vs. Lardner. It's clear Yacabobich can't beat him, but if he can hold him off long enough for a time-out, Nick can still pull out a win against Baron. | |
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Soap Opera Disease | |
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Soap Opera Disease: It's never specified what exactly Bobby's sick of, just that it keeps him from competing in the final match. | |
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Muscles Are Meaningful | |
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Muscles Are Meaningful: Rockville's heavyweight wrestler Lardner is noticeably less trim than his teammate Baron, but he's clearly more muscular and in better shape than Yacabobich, which gives him an advantage over his fatter fellow heavyweight. | |
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Opposing Sports Team: Rockville High, the school that's beaten Mingo Junction in every single sport for nine years. | |
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Final Boss Preview | |
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Final Boss Preview: At a double wrestling meet, Nick gets to watch Baron demolish his hapless opponent in seconds. | |
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Cringe Comedy: Jill valiantly acts as the Mingo Junction team's lone cheerleader in their first ever wrestling meet. The result is embarrassingly hilarious. | |
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You Can Barely Stand | |
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You Can Barely Stand: Nick is already exhausted and dehydrated from making weight before he goes up against Baron. | |
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This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman | |
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This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Randy will be the first to tell you he's a musician, not an athlete, which means he's pretty much useless as Nick's replacement as the 185-pound wrestler on the team. However, his musical skills help save the day when he plays Palumbo's song during the final meet. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: After learning he isn't going to graduate from high school, Nick gets mad at Brooke by telling her that, coming from a wealthy, intact home, she doesn't understand people like him. It's only when Nick talks to Bobby that Nick realizes that while he does face economic and academic difficulties, he also isn't dying like Bobby is, and needs to put aside his resentment and help the team. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: "Cleansing bubble" for taking a poo. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curbstomp Battle: Mingo Junction's first wrestling match ends with embarrassing losses for the majority of the team, besides Washington and presumably also Yacabobich. | |
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Book and Switch | |
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Book and Switch: A non-raunchy example: Jill gives Ed a present of a rare and valuable Shakespeare book... only for Ed to find out it's actually a wrestling manual whose dust-jacket she swapped out to disguise it. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: The Mingo Junction principal approves the students' idea for a wrestling team, decides Ed Brannish is more up to the task of being a coach than he thinks, and gives him some good advice about coaching. Coach Kawa of the Rockville wrestling team is a pretty chill guy, too, agreeing to let Nick compete despite his earlier disqualification and switching the 185 and heavyweight matches to buy Nick more time. It's clear his team is good as a result of his excellent coaching, not just because of Baron and Lardner's talent. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Nick hits this when he finds out he won't graduate. It causes him to first get himself disqualified from wrestling and then lash out at Brooke. He gets better after a talk with Bobby, though. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: Yacabobich is the first major character introduced, leading out among the seniors in getting permission to form a wrestling team and getting more screentime than any of them. However, the protagonists of the story are ultimately Coach Branish and Nick, leading Yacabobich to end up a mix of The Big Guy and The Heart. | |
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Artistic License – Sports | |
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Artistic License – Sports: Baron is clearly much too big to be in the 185 weight class, as easily seen by how he looms over his opponents. | |
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Down to the Last Play | |
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Down to the Last Play: The score in the final meet is 26-32 for the final match between Nick and Baron, meaning Mingo Junction can only win if Nick pins Baron. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: The beginning of the final match between Nick and Baron is a 45-second shot, giving the viewer ample time to see that yes, the actor for Leroy Baron really can throw around Lorenzo Lamas like that. | |
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Rules Lawyer | |
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Rules Lawyer: The wrestling referee is naturally this; though willing to make a few exceptions due to Branish and the team's inexperience in their first match, he strictly enforces the rules later on. Branish later turns this on the ref to excuse bringing a boombox to a match to play Palumbo's Theme Music Powerup, saying he can't find anything about it in the rules. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Nick ends up taking his father's place as the main breadwinner of the family, and the way he carries his dad home and puts him to bed means the roles of father and son are reversed between them. | |
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Answer Cut | |
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Answer Cut: Yacabobich wonders to himself who they can find to fill the 185-pound slot on the wrestling team to face Baron. The scene immediately cuts to Nick at the steel mill. | |
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