Two wrestling legends become cops because grocery store robbery > unemployment line
Tricky Rick MacDonald and Billy The Body Youngblood are two of the best wrestlers in the country. They are told to take a dive by the wife of a promoter. If they don't, she will make sure they are blackballed from wrestling. When they don't do what she says, they are fired immediately. They try many jobs without any success. When they stop a grocery store robbery, they get the idea to be cops. So begins a new chapter in the life of this tag team. Bad guys, watch out!!!
Acting
Jesse Ventura and Roddy Piper doing their own stunts, bless them
Writing
Pilot for a series that died so this movie could live 60 minutes
Director
Paul Krasny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 60-minute 'movie' was actually a backdoor pilot for ABC that never got picked up, explaining the rushed pacing and unresolved ending.
Ventura and Piper were peak-hot WWF stars when this filmed—imagine The Rock and John Cena making a cop show pilot today that just... aired once as a movie.
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