The veteran wrestling and MMA journalist feels there is a much more interesting option in UFC history for a biopic.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mixed martial arts fighter and Ohio native Mark Coleman returned home Friday following a whirlwind press tour for "The Smashing Machine," which premiered in theaters across the United ...

A new blockbuster movie starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson also features the portrayal of a former Ohio State wrestler and UFC fighter. "The Smashing Machine," is a wrestling biopic about mixed ...

Ryan Bader, a former Arizona State wrestler and pro mixed martial arts champion, had a major role in "The Smashing Machine," ...

Ryan Bader (right) portrays Mark Coleman (left) in “The Smashing Machine.” | 📷: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic Forgive Ryan Bader if he pauses occasionally to pinch himself. The former two-division Bellator ...

Filmmaker Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without his brother Josh, “The Smashing Machine” is a biopic that zigs ...

True to its name, The Smashing Machine is an exercise in brutality, full of crashes, fights and collisions leaving shards, both orthopedic and emotional. The 2002 documentary tour de force chronicles ...

Only two kinds of actors are bad: those who can’t be themselves and those who you wish wouldn’t be. All the rest are likely to shine in movies by good directors, and most actors whose reputations aren ...

Dwayne Johnson packs on even more muscle for the role of a lifetime as complicated MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Benny Safdie's sports biopic "The Smashing Machine" puts The Rock in the Oscar best actor ...

The Smashing Machine (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed and written by Benny Safdie, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Lyndsey Gavin, ...