Ready to Rumble


Ready to Rumble is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Brian Robbins and written by Steven Brill, which is based on Turner Broadcastings now defunct professional wrestling promotion, World Championship Wrestling WCW. The movie draws its title from ring announcer Michael Buffers catchphrase, Lets get ready to rumble The movie features many wrestlers from WCW. Some countries such as Finland, Australia and Japan were only able to see directtovideo premiere releases of this film.

After this event, Gordie believes that the car crash was fate and that they should make Jimmy King once again World Champion. Sean agrees to help Gordie, and the dimwitted duo go on a quest to put their King back on his throne. The next day, Gordie asks a friend to find out where the washedup wrestler lives. Their friend succeeds, and they go to an unexpectedlooking neighborhood. They find Kings estranged wife Caroline Rhea and later his parents Kathleen Freeman and Lewis Arquette. The parents tell them that King borrowed their mobile home, and never returned it. The duo find King and become overexcited. They have a conversation, and when King says that he gives up on wrestling, Gordie and Sean anger him to the point where he suddenly attacks the two boys. The boys encourage King to beat them up, which influenced him to return to wrestling. Then Gordie and Sean are knocked out when Jimmy King does his finishing move.The two boys wake up the next day when Jimmy King drips beer on their faces. Later that day, the trio go on a road trip. Gordie sends letters to his father, who wanted Gordie to follow in his footsteps to be a policeman, but Gordie says that he will not join him in a policeman test, making him frustrated. Gordie, King, and Sean go to the New York Arena where they hide King in a portapotty and they meet one of the Nitro Girls, Sasha Rose McGowan. When DDP mocks Jimmy King on camera, King comes out of the portapotty and beats him up. Sinclair, therefore, declares a Triple Cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship plus a 1,000,000 cash prize. However, if King loses, he will never wrestle again. ........

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