Benny Safdie's 'The Smashing Machine' will release this year with the A24 distributed biopic that Dwayne Johnson sees playing the role of Mark Kerr.
Kerr is an incredibly accomplished wrestler and grappler who participated in both the UFC and Pride in the early days of mixed martial arts, where his career is already the subject of an HBO documentary under the same title.
As a big fan of combat sport, the film has been a passion project for 'The Rock', because he really wants his teeth to sink into a challenging role.
Playing Kerr has required Johnson to push physically and emotionally into new areas to do Kerr's story right.
With the help of a few combat sport cameras from Oleksandr Ussyk, fans will certainly follow a course in the career of Kerr, but one detail can get lost in the Shuffle.
Mark Kerr defeated Kurt -Hoek in the wrestling long before he switched to MMA
As a former NCAA Division I champion and four-time ADCC world champion, Mark Kerr is about the same as it is in wrestling without medaling at the Olympic Games.
A former opponent of him from his struggle days has this about him when he met WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle several times in his career.
After he had already defeated Randy Couture an All-American in 1992, Kerr was constantly in the race for a stage finish where he also competed.
After having won the World Team Trials in both 1993 and 1994, a clip from the USA Wrestling Vault Kerr and Angle shows opposite each other in '93 where the more experienced Grappler came to the top at that moment.
Angle would earn his revenge later after beating Kerr to earn his place at the 1996 Olympic Games, where he won famous gold despite competing in the matches with a broken neck.
Mark Kerr and Kurt Angle went their own way after 1996
After missing the 1996 Olympic Games at Kurt Angle, Mark Kerr MMA decided to strive where he would make his pro -debut the following year.
In 1997, Kerr Back-to-back heavyweight tournaments at UFC 14 and 15 before he made the switch to Pride, where he debuted during the second event of the promotion in 1998.
1996 was also a crucial moment for Kurt Angle who would slowly be seduced by the world of Pro Wrestling with the gold medal winner who made his on television in-ring debut for WWE (then WWF) in November 1999.
Angle flirted with the idea of competing in MMA for a while and even had serious conversations about the appearance on the ultimate hunter or fighting for Bellator, but neither of them ever happened, probably because of the considerable injuries he had sustained during his career .
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