The list of professional wrestlers to have tired their hand at acting is a great deal longer than the one comprised of those who managed to find sustained success in Hollywood, because not everybody gets to be Dwayne Johnson.
Ironically, one of the most successful wrestlers-turned-actors there’s ever been doesn’t even want to be, with Dave Bautista repeatedly shutting down any comparisons between his career and that of his former in-ring rival. The beef between the behemoths has been under greater scrutiny than usual recently following the Guardians of the Galaxy star’s latest shot fired across the bows, but it’s another multi-time WWE champion that’s been winning praise from The Rock.