This was the first film produced by Vince McMahon and WWE (then WWF) and was meant to launch Hulk Hogan as a film star. "Rocky III" remains his best work. In this, he plays a wrestler pulled out of retirement to fight in a league where, as the title says, no holds are barred. The current champion is played by Tiny Lister. Jesse Ventura and a number of other wrestlers make appearances, as does David Paymer, who was definitely slumming. The bad guys are cartoonishly bad, the good guys cartoonishly good, Hogan emotes oddly and the fight scenes are uninteresting. It's silly and not good, but it's nowhere near the worst film Hogan's made.
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