YMMV / No Holds Barred

• Awesome Music: The end credits song, sung by John Joyce.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene where Rip and Samantha go to the diner, and Rip foils a robbery there. The robbers escape but none of this is ever mentioned again.
• Cult Classic: Amongst wrestling fans.
• Ham and Cheese: Having fun, Tiny Lister?
  • Brell is almost as over the top as Zeus.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the movie, a rich media mogul attempts to sign Hulk Hogan, which fails. In real life, Hulk Hogan would later sign with a rich media mogul that also happened to own WCW.
  • Admit it, it's hard to see Zeus's defeat and not exclaim "You got knocked the fuck out!".
  • The rules of Battle of the Tough Guys are the exact same as the ones used by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. And this film came 4 years before that sport was created. Hell, the octagonal ring used in the final fight is prescient of the UFC Octagon.
• Moral Event Horizon: If Brell didn't cross it when he tries to have Samantha raped, he's utterly, irredeemably over it when he sics Zeus on Rip's brother, beating him so badly he needs a wheelchair afterward.
• Narm: Quite possibly one of the Narmiest movies ever made. Pretty much the only reason to watch it is for the Narm Charm.
  • Zeus' constant screaming
  • Rip managing to burst through the top of a limo like an explosion (leading to the infamous "dookie" scene)
  • The ridiculously over-the-top final fight.
  • Hogan's never been the best actor in the world, but his snarling and grunting in some parts of the movie border on cartoonish.
  • "...Dookie?"
• One-Scene Wonder: Stan Hansen AKA the guy who makes fun of Brell's minion's "teenie weenies".
• Retroactive Recognition: While Zeus' actor, Tom Lister was reasonably well-known as an actor at the time, younger fans might know him as the prisoner who refused to take part in The Joker's "social experiment" in The Dark Knight.
• Signature Scene: The "dookie" scene, largely due to Hogan's hilariously bad acting making an already ridiculous scene into a farce beyond what words could describe.
• So Bad, It's Good: It's really hard to take this movie seriously, especially in today's more postmodern Professional Wrestling circles. Many enjoy it for the cheesiness however.

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