This Sunday, TNA Wrestling’s annual Lockdown extravaganza goes down in Philadelphia. The pay-per-view event features all of TNA’s top stars, fighting inside a steel cage a.k.a. “The Six Sides of Steel.” Complex recently got with Samoa Joe and Jay Lethal to talk about some of their interests outside the ring.

#1. WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER-ONE DEAL-BREAKER FOR A POTENTIAL GIRLFRIEND?

Jay Lethal says: I have to say height. They gotta be shorter than I am. I’m 5′9″ and I just like it when they’re shorter.

Samoa Joe says: If she’s not confident, it’s a deal-breaker. If you deal with a confident chick, all the other baggage falls away. I’ve never been with a woman that didn’t respect herself.

#2. IF YOU HAD A WEEK-LONG HOLIDAY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Jay Lethal says: Probably stay in bed all day and sleep. Hibernation. I don’t get to sleep a lot since I’m wrestling all the time.

Samoa Joe says: Just chill around the house and spend time with my family. I travel so much it’s cool to be home. When you travel around the world your holiday is where you rest your head.

#3. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?

Jay Lethal says: There’s this commercial on TV where there’s a kid with his mom in the airport. It’s an anti-smoking commercial and the mom goes outside to smoke and he somehow loses her and can’t find her. It’s real sad man, it makes me well up a little bit.

Samoa Joe says: The birth of my son. He was born three months ago. Tears of joy; I can freely admit that.

Jay channels his inner Macho Man.

#4. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SNEAKER OF ALL TIME?

Jay Lethal says: Pumas of all kinds. I don’t think I own any other sneaker.

Samoa Joe says: The L.A. Gear Rebound, the Karl Malone shoe. I had ‘em when I was a kid, like ‘91, ‘92.

#5. WHAT HAS TO BE IN YOUR FRIDGE AT ALL TIMES?

Jay Lethal says: I’m trying to give up soda, but Pepsi is my all-time favorite beverage. Coke leaves this weird feeling on my teeth and Pepsi doesn’t. There’s a big difference between the two.

Samoa Joe says: Minute Maid OJ, low pulp.

#6. WHAT’S THE MOST EMBARRASSING PIECE OF CLOTHING YOU’VE EVER WORN?

Jay Lethal says: I did laundry the day before we had to go to Florida for this taping and one of the pairs of sweatpants had shrunk. They were a little tight.

Samoa Joe says: That’s hard for me to list. There was a period of my life when I wore a fanny pack—being a pro wrestler, it happens to all the guys—until somebody pulled me aside and told me to go with a backpack.

#7. WHAT’S THE WORST WAY YOU’VE BROKEN UP WITH SOMEONE?

Jay Lethal says: That hasn’t happened yet. I’m currently in my first actual relationship. I’m 23; I’ve been with my girl for a year and some change.

Samoa Joe says: I don’t know if there’s ever been a best way. Maybe on a birthday. I went to a girl’s birthday and hung out with her all night, and then at the end of the night, I was just like, “Ahhhh…”

The “Samoan Submission Machine” lives up to his name.

At its muscular core, professional wrestling is an oiled-up, spandex-clad act. Though it’s a choreographed farce, wrestling does beat a body up, so it makes perfect sense that wrestlers want to change into clothes that don’t hug their nuts and put their steroidal guns and funk-faking abilities to use in Hollywood. Many wrestlers have appeared in movies, but a select few, like John Cena, have achieved leading man status.

This Friday, Cena can be seen making his second star turn as a New Orleans detective in the cat-and-mouse action thriller 12 Rounds. In honor of his power moves, Complex looks back at six other flicks starring wrestlers that will pin you for the full count, with or without the bedazzled briefs…


They Live (1988)
• Rowdy Roddy Piper (pause?) is a homeless worker who finds a pair of glasses that allow him to spot an alien race living amongst people, subliminally brainwashing humanity from positions of power. And you thought your Slanties changed your perspective, you racist fuck.

No Holds Barred (1989)
• Hulk Hogan is a kind-hearted wrestling champ who sleazy suits manipulate into a brutal, ratings-boosting fight that has no ring, no ref and no rules. Almost twenty years later, it’s more like MMA on estrogen, but still.

The Rundown (2003)
• The Rock plays a bounty hunter pursuing prized booty in the Amazon with Rosario Dawson. And he’s after some hidden riches, too!

See No Evil (2006)
• Kane plays a sociopath who collects eyeballs because his mom locked him in a cage and forced him to watch porn. Or maybe he’s like us and just wishes he had more eyes to watch porn with.

Halloween (2007)
• In Rob Zombie’s horror remake, Tyler Mane plays the masked killer Michael Myers, who mysteriously transforms from a pint sized boy into a gargantuan monster while locked in an asylum. Apparently A-Rod’s cousin was on his visitors list.

The Condemned (2007)
• Stone Cold Steve Austin plays a death row inmate who’s bought and entered into a reality TV battle royale in which he must fight other condemned killers to the death. Hey, we just got an idea for a new Brody Jenner show!

In The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky’s awesome new film, beat-up, has-been actor Mickey Rourke plays Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a beat-up, has-been wrestler who was big shit in the ’80s but now fights in school gyms and can barely manage to pay rent on his trailer home. At one point, Ram describes himself as “an old broken down piece of meat.”

Sadly, too many real-life fake wrestlers stick around the ring past their prime, when their meat has gone wrinkly and rancid. In honor of this award-worthy flick, check out five real old-ass fake wrestlers who should go down for the count and throw themselves wholeheartedly into retirement.

HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN

• Age: 54
• Wrestling Debut: 1979
• Reason He Should Tap Out: We will always remember and love Hacksaw, wrestling’s original American patriot who carried a big stick (…), but in 2008, dude is looking like Old Glory.

STING

• Age: 49
• Wrestling Debut: 1985
• Reason He Should Tap Out: He can hide his years behind face paint, but these days when old boy rolls under the ropes the only thing stinging is his arthritic joints.

KEVIN NASH

• Age: 49
• Wrestling Debut: 1990
• Reason He Should Tap Out: Known as Diesel back in his days man-groping for WWF/WWE, Nash is a few grey hairs away from pumping five-lb. weights in senior pool aerobics class.

FINLAY

• Age: 50
• Wrestling Debut: 1974
• Reason He Should Tap Out: His Irish act is as old as he is, but we forgive it because he’s actually from Northern Ireland. Still, his luck ran out around the time his balding dome couldn’t support a mullet anymore.

HORNSWOGGLE

• Age: 22
• Wrestling Debut: 2004
• Reason He Should Tap Out: Finlay’s Leprechaun-like “son” has only been on this earth 22 short years, but that’s like 78 in wee little people years. And yes, we’ll be wearing shin guards from now on in case he tries to see our ankles in the streets.

Until now, shows like Raw were rated TV-14, carrying warnings for dialogue, violence and language. But after the new direction takes place, you can look forward to a sanitized version of homoerotic sweat wars. After the jump, watch some memorable examples of the “wrestling” content (R.I.P. bra and panties matches) that you’ll never see on basic cable again.

Kane crawls into a coffin and has sex with the corpse of Katie Vick.

Divas kissing Divas. What’s more American than that?

Mankind catches a serious series of bad ones from The Undertaker during King of the Ring 1998.

Vince McMahon blows the eff up in 2007.

A three-on-two bra and panties match: Victoria, Candice Michelle, and Torrie Wilson vs. Ashley and Trish Stratus. Must-see TV at its finest.

Check the video after the jump to see the otherwise dignified public servant rapturously describe the wrestling legend's “bleached-blond hair,” “designer suits,” and “devastating figure-four leglock.” She then, of course, hoots. As well she should. Here's to you, Nature Boy! We’re proud to have our tax dollars pay for such a monumental piece of oratory.

Sue Myrick makes her case to congress

A montage of classic Ric Flair moments