They Live  Fight Scene

Wrestling’s Influence On Cinema’s Finest Brawl

Despite no crowd attendance, many of the prominent wrestling promotions carried on, and we were able to tune in and enjoy stories told to us by our favorite performers.

These strange times were the perfect opportunity to showcase a new style of wrestling that started to become popular a couple of years prior. 

The cinematic match consists of part wrestling contest, part short film. The magic of this style of movie-making gave us few things to be happy about during an otherwise dreary time.

It gave The Undertaker a fitting end to a career that consisted of brilliant theatricality anyway, at WrestleMania 36 in a Boneyard Match against AJ Styles.

Although the They Live fight scene is quite epic, it certainly wasn’t the first battle in cinema.

It may not technically be a wrestling bout, but there are many similarities between the film’s epic 6-minute punch-up and a wrestling match. Many may surprise you!

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