History Film / NoHoldsBarred

* VanillaEdition: The 2012 DVD release, which doesn't contain a trailer, any behind the scenes features, or even an acknowledgement of Tom "Tiny" Lister's WWE career. The Blu-ray release rectified this a little, as it includes the two matches Lister participated in as Zeus (a match from Summerslam ‘89 and the No Holds Barred Match Revisted from December 1989).

* VanillaEdition: The 2012 DVD release, which doesn't contain a trailer, any behind the scenes features, or even an acknowledgement of Tom "Tiny" Lister's WWE career much less any

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Just before Samantha falls asleep, she hears [[ADateWithRosiePalms weird, repetitive grunting noises]] coming from Rip's side of the hotel room. But it's cool: Rip's just doing pushups.

* FinishingMove: Interestingly, Rip's finishing move is a double axe-handle, which is Hulk Hogan's real-life finisher when wrestling in Japan.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Brell will stop at nothing to rule the world of television ratings. Forget about just kidnapping; as Paul F. Tompkins puts it on ''How Did This Get Made?'', "To get the number one wrestling show, they're willing to perpetrate rapes and murders."

* MoodWhiplash: Rip's deals with one goon by giving him an involuntary ride with his motorcycle and tossing him into a wall, with the consequences played in a goofy, comically slapstick manner that's somewhat at odds with how the guy was just trying to ''rape his love interest''.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: It is strongly implied that Zeus is killed from the impact of his tumble over the balcony after the climatic fight, having landed so hard on the canvas that the ring imploded. [[spoiler: The man he's working for, Brell, is accidentally electrocuted shortly thereafter.]]

** Actually no. Hogan's Japanese finisher is NOT a double axe handle. But instead a crooked armed Lariat known as the "Axe Bomber". Used so because it was what he accidentally knocked Antonio Anoki out with.

** For Zeus, the first moment comes at the seedy bar wherein he is introduced. A waitress tries to greet him at the door, but before she can get two words out, he grabs her by the face, twists it with a vise-like clawhold and then drops her over a stair railing to the floor below, causing presumably serious injuries and drawing blood. Later, during the climatic fight scene, Zeus sees Rip's brother, Randy in the crowd and decides to knock him out of his wheelchair and kick him around; when this happens, Randy's girlfriend, Stephanie, tries to cover him to get Zeus to stop, but he kicks her aside (hard). Shortly thereafter, Rip comes after Zeus, who throws several people, including women and children, into the stairwell into Rip's path. (The noble Rip helps each person up before he gets to Zeus.)

Hogan stars as "Rip", the most-popular professional wrestler in the entire world (no, really!). One day, he is approached by Brell (Kurt Fuller), the [[LargeHam hamtacular]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil head of the World Television Network]], who wishes to lure Rip to his network so that he can TakeOverTheWorld of television ratings. The honorable, loyal and handsome Rip thwarts Brell's blank checks, sexy {{Femme Fatale}}s and {{Mook}} ambushes, so Brell [[StartMyOwn starts his own wrastlin' program called "Battle Of The Tough Guys"]]: a glorified bar-brawl that crowns the [[ScaryBlackMan seemingly-invulnerable Zeus]] ([[Creator/TinyLister Tom "Tiny" Lister]]) as champion. Yet Brell will not be satisfied until the rock-hard abs of Rip are under his control, and a heinous attack on Rip's little brother might just be the ignition for Rip to accept a final showdown against Brell's champion.

Hogan stars as "Rip", the most-popular professional wrestler in the entire world (no, really!). One day, he is approached by Brell (Kurt Fuller), the [[LargeHam hamtacular]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil head of the World Television Network]], who wishes to lure Rip to his network so that he can TakeOverTheWorld of television ratings. The honourable, loyal and handsome Rip thwarts Brell's blank cheques, sexy {{Femme Fatale}}s and {{Mook}} ambushes, so Brell [[StartMyOwn starts his own wrastlin' program called "Battle Of The Tough Guys"]]: a glorified bar-brawl that crowns the [[ScaryBlackMan seemingly-invulnerable Zeus]] ([[Creator/TinyLister Tom "Tiny" Lister]]) as champion. Yet Brell will not be satisfied until the rock-hard abs of Rip are under his control, and a heinous attack on Rip's little brother might just be the ignition for Rip to accept a final showdown against Brell's champion.

Compare with ''Film/ReadyToRumble''.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing ... after Rip knocks Zeus off a tall balcony, causing him to fall at least three stories (25-35 feet) to his (presumed) death.

* AttemptedRape: One of Brell's {{Mook}}s to Samantha.

* BigOlUnibrow: That thing on Zeus is something to behold to the point that the ''Podcast/HowDidThisGetMade'' live episode discussing the film takes a minute or two just to discuss it, calling it "legitimately a checkmark" and wondering what the makeup artist's thinking was.

* TheCameo: Since the movie has a fictionalized version of the [=WWF=], it's no surprise to see Howard Finkel, Gene Okerlund and Jesse "The Body" Ventura show up. More surprising is a cameo by Stan Hansen, who wasn't in the WWE at the time.

* FoodFight: Rip's counterattack towards an armed robbery at his favorite restaurant. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Yeah.]]

* ItsPersonal[=/=]ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Once Zeus lays that beating on Randy, Rip cares far more about paying him back than anything to do with Brell.

* MoralGuardians: In-universe example -- some groups and families complain about Brell's "Battle of the Tough Guys". Brell's response? "[[TakeThat They WATCHED it, didn't THEY?]]"
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The prize for winning the ''Battle of the Tough Guys'' is one hundred thousand dollars... ''TAX-FREE.''

* TeenyWeenie: The redneck in the bar's restroom mocks two of Brell's partners for their minuscule manhoods.

** Brell has been implied to have hit Samantha Moore, his former secretary and tool of seducing his enemies, in the past. When Moore defects to Rip's side and helps him gather ammunition to beat Brell, he sends his goons after her, hoping to kidnap and send Samantha to a horrifyingly brutal fate ... until Rip, out riding his motorcycle, happens to come right around the corner.

Hogan stars as "Rip", the most-popular professional wrestler in the entire world (no, really!). One day, he is approached by Brell (Kurt Fuller), the [[LargeHam hamtacular]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil head of the World Television Network]], who wishes to lure Rip to his network so that he can TakeOverTheWorld of television ratings. The honourable, loyal and handsome Rip thwarts Brell's blank cheques, sexy {{Femme Fatale}}s and {{Mook}} ambushes, so Brell [[StartMyOwn starts his own wrastlin' program called "Battle Of The Tough Guys"]]: a glorified bar-brawl that crowns the [[ScaryBlackMan seemingly-invulnerable Zeus]] ([[Creator/TinyListon Tom "Tiny" Lister]]) as champion. Yet Brell will not be satisfied until the rock-hard abs of Rip are under his control, and a heinous attack on Rip's little brother might just be the ignition for Rip to accept a final showdown against Brell's champion.

Hogan stars as "Rip", the most-popular professional wrestler in the entire world (no, really!). One day, he is approached by Brell (Kurt Fuller), the [[LargeHam hamtacular]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil head of the World Television Network]], who wishes to lure Rip to his network so that he can TakeOverTheWorld of television ratings. The honourable, loyal and handsome Rip thwarts Brell's blank cheques, sexy {{Femme Fatale}}s and {{Mook}} ambushes, so Brell [[StartMyOwn starts his own wrastlin' program called "Battle Of The Tough Guys"]]: a glorified bar-brawl that crowns the [[ScaryBlackMan seemingly-invulnerable Zeus]] (Tom "Tiny" Lister) as champion. Yet Brell will not be satisfied until the rock-hard abs of Rip are under his control, and a heinous attack on Rip's little brother might just be the ignition for Rip to accept a final showdown against Brell's champion.

Compare with Film/ReadyToRumble.

* TheBackwardsR: An extremely rare non-Russian example, used in the original promotional material (NO HOLDS BARЯED).

* BigOlUnibrow: That thing on Zeus is something to behold.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: It is strongly implied that Zeus was killed from the impact of his tumble over the balcony after the climatic fight, having landed so hard on the canvas that the ring imploded. [[spoiler: The man he was working for, Brell, is accidentally electrocuted shortly thereafter.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Brell will stop at nothing to rule the world of television ratings, right up to assault and kidnapping.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Brell already has the highest-rated show on television. He didn't need to resort to felonies to force Rip into his ''Battle of the Tough Guys'' show.

* HighVoltageDeath: Brell, in the final scene. After defeating Zeus, Rip sees Brell and goes after him. Brell tries to flee but backs into an electrical panel, causing him a large-voltage shock that (presumably) kills him instantly.

* KickTheDog: This movie has gone out of its way to make the antagonists as despicable as humanly possible. Zeus had beaten up Rip's brother Randy to a point where he can't walk and to add insult to injury, he punched him of his wheelchair and kicked him while he was on the ground. Brell has gone from a Smug {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}} to abusive, by trying to have his old employee Samantha raped by his {{mooks}} for actually caring about Rip, hiring goons to attack Rip just because he had the audacity to say no to Brell, letting Zeus cripple Rip's brother and blackmailing Rip to throw a match.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The prize for winning the ''Battle of the Tough Guys'' was one hundred thousand dollars... ''TAX-FREE.''
* NoSell: Zeus no-sells hits against him up until the final battle. Rip also does so when he enters states of ersatz Hulkamania.

* OnlyOneName: Barely any of the main characters seem to have last names, or in Brell's case, a first name.

* RedRightHand: Zeus's BigOlUnibrow. Liston's natural lazy eye is also exaggerated. Zeus is never seen without it crossed.
* ScaryBlackMan: Zeus, the only black man of note in the film, as it happens.
* SeriousBusiness: Wrestling. It's single-handedly responsible for the success of World Television Network, and Brell is willing to pay any price to have its biggest star. It's as if the station airs nothing else but a single show.

* TeenyWeenie: The redneck in the bar's restroom mocked two of Brell's partners for their minuscule manhoods.

* VanillaEdition: The 2012 DVD release, which doesn't contain a trailer, any behind the scenes features, or even an acknowledgement of Tom "Tiny" Lister's WWE career.
* VillainousBreakdown: Brell starts trashing his own station equipment as Zeus gets beaten around by Rip at the end.