10 Wrestler Movie Cameos You Totally Missed

Kurt Angle and The Rock squaring off on the silver screen? Oh, it's true!

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In 2017, it seems that most of the WWE's top talent have tried their hand at acting at some point or another, with WWE Studios now churning out movies at a once unthinkable pace.

From Hornswoggle to Bo Dallas, just about every wrestling personality that has the ability to read a scipt has made it into a WWE-produced movie. Sadly, that description means that Mike Adamle will probably never make the grade.

For the rest of the roster, however, it appears they now have a natural window into the acting realm. With WWE Studios seemingly content to produce never-ending sequels to The Marine and 12 Rounds, that trend looks set to continue for some time to come.

However, before WWE dived into the movie business with both feet, wrestlers were left to find their own way onto the silver screen... which often led to some surprising cameos: including Adrian Street in The Canterbury Tales and, of course, Hulk Hogan in Rocky III.

While movies like The Longest Yard and Ready To Rumble are littered with wrestler cameos, as is obviously The Wrestler, there are also a number of non-WWE movies that feature well-known pro wrestlers in somewhat unusual roles. Here's ten that may have slipped under the radar.

10. Randy Savage - Bolt

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Randy Savage was no stranger to movie roles in 2008, having played the hugely memorable part of Bone Saw McGraw in Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man movie from 2002.

Sadly, Savage had been out of the spotlight for a considerable amount of time in the mid-2000s, with his only on-screen role since Spider-Man being his two-shot run in TNA in 2004. Disappearing from the spotlight for much of the remainder of the decade, Savage had gone on to focus more on voice-over work for cartoons and animation.

Which brings us to his next movie role in 2008's Disney Movie, Bolt. Considerably less prolific than his previous part, Savage provided the voice a thug in pursuit of Bolt the dog, credited simply as 'Thug' in the movie's end credits. He also appears in the spin-off short, Super Rhino, as well - albeit for about one second. Nevertheless, the movie did bring Savage out to the premier, giving the world it's first real glimpse of the 'Macho Man' since 2004.

Sporting his new white bearded look, the new-look Savage was far different to the one the wrestling world saw just four years earlier. Though greyer and smaller, he was still recognisable as the 'Master of the Madness' and seemed to be growing old gracefully. Sadly he died just a few short years later in 2011.

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