Ready to Rumble

Episode 75: Ready to Rumble (2000)

Theme: Wrestlers in Movies
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis kick off Wrestlers in Movies Month by suplexing themselves straight into Ready to Rumble — a movie marriage so chaotic it could only come from Curtis’s brain: Hulk Hogan’s Rock ’n’ Wrestling crossed with Saving Silverman, meets Scream, with a sprinkle of “Ooooh yeah! The cream always rises to the top!” The result? The WCW-produced fever dream that tried to be meta, tried to be funny, and accidentally helped kill an entire wrestling promotion.

Join your two favorite members of the Let’s Talk About Flix-verse as they unpack:

• How Gordy and Sean are two loud, sticky wrestling fanboys who make the Saving Silverman guys look emotionally stable.

• Why Jimmy King is the least believable WCW Champion of all time — and yes, they made David Arquette champion in real life after this.

• How the Cheyenne Screwjob was WCW’s subtle way of saying, “What if we parody something we already screwed up in real life?”

• Why Martin Landau is working so hard in this movie you can almost hear his agent apologizing on the phone.

• How Rose McGowan looks like she’d rather chew glass than film one more scene as a Nitro Girl.

• Why this movie features a Triple Cage Match that somehow descends from the rafters fully assembled like it’s the world’s least practical wedding cake.

• How Sting drops in from 400 feet in the air just to say, “Jimmy King is all right by me,” with absolutely zero explanation.

• How David Arquette’s Slurpee trick was the smartest thing anyone does in this entire script.

• Why the final hot-tub scene with shirtless Martin Landau might be the weirdest ending in any wrestling movie ever made — and yes, we remember Suburban Commando.

• How this movie contains more homophobia, ableism, cops bragging about shootings, and random 2000s gross-out humor than any sane person asked for.

From sewage truck road trips to Nitro Girl seductions, from hacked floppy disks to flying police motorcycles, Oz and Curtis walk through a film that proves sometimes a movie can be so dumb… it body-slams itself.

Final Verdict

Oz — 2 Gut-Busting Kick-Outs at Two
Curtis — 17 Disinterested Rose McGowans
Both — Still trying to figure out how DDP survived falling through three cages. He should be dead.