8 Actors You Didn't Know Were Wrestlers

5. Lenny Montana

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If Lenny Montana had entered the wrestling biz in the '90s, you can be pretty damn certain he'd have been handed a bottle of Brylcreem, a pork pie hat, and forced into the mafioso gimmick stereotypical of any vaguely Italian grappler. See: Guido, Little.

Mind you, given his background, it would have been quite befitting. Not only did Montana portray fierce assassin Luca Brasi in Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece The Godfather, but he also legitimately served as the Colombo crime syndicate's heavy in New York City in the late '60s.

Indeed, it was Montana's mob connections which earned him the part: a dispute between the Italian-American Civil Rights League - of which family head Joe Colombo was a big player - and The Godfather's producers resulted in many a made man on set. The director's eye was soon caught by hulking muscle Montana.

As it happened, Montana made it in organised tumbling before organised crime, picking up tag-team gold in Minneapolis and Georgia. Despite being named 'The Zebra Kid', there wasn't a single pin-stripe suit in sight.

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