Ruff Tuff and Real: Legends of Australian Wrestling
Aug 08, 2007 | IMDB 0
44 min Watch NowDocumentary
Australian wrestling was once a television obsession where the best in the world would clash. Now travel half way around the world with an Aussie wrestling champion to track down the greats of those glory days where generations cheered heroes, and booed villians. Here are the mad, bad and dangerous-to-know grand-daddies of the original reality television, where every move was Ruff, Tuff, and Real!
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