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8. Stunt Doubles

In a movie such as this, with its extensive wrestling sequences, stunt doubles were required for the actors, particularly David Arquette and Oliver Platt. And who better to play the role than wrestlers themselves? As a matter of fact, who better than Kanyon?

As you can see by the above photo, the production enlisted the services of Chris Kanyon and Shane Helms to take bumps for Platt and Arquette respectively. Kanyon - who was fight choreographer for the film - referred to his costume as a 'fat suit', much to Platt's chagrin, and also made an on-camera appearance as a fan in an Insane Clown Posse t-shirt during one of the Nitro scenes.

Sugar Shane also had tasks other than imitating former WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette. As he explained during a post on his personal website a couple of years ago, director Brian Robbins asked him to teach the words of Run DMC's 'King of Rock' (Jimmy King's entrance music) to the crowd of (largely hispanic) extras so they could rap along to it on film.

Yes, the former 3 Count superstar was a rap superstar in LA for one night only.