Top Wrestling Movies That Will Leave You On The Mat

Wrestling is one of the biggest shows in the world and due to its great relevance in the general culture of several countries over the years, several films have been created in relation to this business, so let's get started.

Nacho Libre or Super Nacho

It is a 2006 film directed by Jarez Ges with actors in its
cast such as Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera or Héctor Jiménez in which Ignacio, a monk despised by all those around him and a great fan of wrestling, driven by achieving his dream of fame and glory, decides to abandon his religious life to sign up for a tournament of novice wrestlers. Nacho will sign up for the competition with another man, a vagabond who will receive the ring name of skeleton, but they will lose their first fight against another couple, however, our protagonist received the support of the fans despite being defeated and an amount of money so that both could compete again the following week. Nacho will then have to combine his work as a cook in a Mexican monastery with his fights inside a ring. Under his mask and with his feelings for a nun, Sister Encarnación, with whom he falls in love at first sight. Tired of losing fights, Nacho tries to find a solution that he does not find until the end, he finally signs up for the ring. a new tournament with a reward of 10,000 pesos and which he will try to win with the help of his faith in God to compete against Ramses, the champion and best fighter in the world, a family comedy based on the real life of the Monk fighter Fray Tormento and aimed primarily at children but which can be enjoyed Even if you are not a fan of this show since despite showing several ridiculous scenes, there is also a great respect for the industry.

Cassandro

It is a 2023 film born from a previous documentary with Roger Ross Williams as its director and with a cast that includes actors such as Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez or Perla de la Rosa, in addition to having a special appearance by Bad Bunny, once again we will go to Mexican wrestling since this biographical film tells the story of Saul Armendariz, better known as Candro, an exotic wrestler who suffered a lot throughout his life, both personal and professional, unlike the previous position, this time wrestling is breathed from the first scenes with Saul Caught in a spiral of defeats due to playing a weak character called El Topo compared to Gimmi perfectly due to his homosexuality in real life, with this new gimmi Saúl would fight much more comfortably and would demonstrate his great potential, which would lead him to become an absolute legend of the country's wrestling, revolutionizing the industry.

A story of overcoming and self-acceptance that perfectly combines action scenes in the ring with Saúl's experiences away from the ring, portraying the difficult circumstances he had to go through to be someone successful due to one of the biggest problems in the business, especially at the end of the last century, which was the excessive homophobia that existed in wrestling.

Fighting with my family

It is a film released in 2019 and with stepen mercant as director while among its actors it has names like Lina heidy Florence pew u dwayne johnson himself playing himself as a rock despite focusing mainly on the life of saraya j Bibis who you may recognize better as page contains in turn contains several parallel stories within the same family in which all its members share the same passion for professional wrestling after several years entertaining the public in the Arenas of a small English city saraya and her brother sak receive the opportunity to do a test with the WWE

To enter the development territory of the company while this happens zak would be subjected to enormous pressure because he is under the shadow of another brother who after not passing that same test sank into misery ending up in jail in addition to having his girlfriend pregnant on the other hand pagee will find herself disoriented in a new environment that does not understand the greslin in the same way as her since in this case the most important thing It will be the beauty of the fighters instead of their wrestling talent, a film that shows Page's personal story from her beginnings in her parents' small promotion, her time in NXT and finally her rise to the main roster in which she would become Divas champion on the day of her debut, mixing great action scenes in the ring both in fights and in training with comedy and drama.

The Wrestler

It is a film released in 2008 whose director is daren aronov Ski counting in its cast with names like Mickey r Mark margolis or Ivan reiche in addition to having changes of fighters unknown to the casual public Randy de ram Robinson is an extremely successful former fighter one of the biggest superstars of the 80s however with the passage of time his battered body begins to suffer the consequences of his long career despite the fact that due to his passion for the business he refuses to retire competing only on weekends in bloody fights while working in a store his addiction to drugs does not help his situation and everything ends up exploding when after a demanding and wild ultraviolent fight he suffers a heart attack which forces him to leave the business he loves permanently after this he focuses on trying to repair the bad relationship with his daughter and have a new partner casid a stripper with whom he has been in love for some time but with the arrival of a new offer to succeed again and feel like a great legend again Randy will have to decide What is more important, his career or his own extremely intimate dramatic life full of emotion and realism, the film
shows the harsh reality of many wrestlers and the high price they must pay for their profession, especially in the lesser-known companies of the business and on the independent circuit, creating what is undoubtedly the best wrestling movie of all time and personally my favorite.