Music
"Randy Savage", a 1978 hit by the Village People
Macho Man
Rub-a-dub-dub: this nursery rhyme features three professionals in a tub, and all of them out to sea:
[Andy Williams]; [Dr. Britt, DMD], and; a candlestick maker.
Butcher, Baker
(50 points each)
Although it stars Connery & Cage, Dwayne Johnson is still the titular character of this 1996 offering by Michael Bay.
The Rock
This divinity of the Abrahamic religions has a 0-1 record in WWE, after forming a tag-team with Shawn Michaels and losing to Shane & Vince McMahon at the 2006 "Backlash" PPV.
God
It's fasten-ating to wonder how many angels can dance on the head of this object before they experience one of these tumbling, unintentional descents.
Pinfall
Lyrics:
Everybody wants to be a [Stacy Carter]; because a [Stacy Carter] is the only [Stacy Carter] who knows where it's at.
Kat / cat
Franklin Dixon converted Matt & Jeff from tag-team wrestlers into a mystery-solving duo in this iconic young adult series.
The Hardy Boys
Terry Bollea replaces Mark Ruffalo as this Marvel icon.
Hulk [Hogan]
Are you able to tell me the name of this wrestler who had a vicious feud with his brother, most famously in the Bible but also later during WWE's "Attitude Era"?
Kane
Before & Wrestling Term & After:
You can use this idiom in its literal sense to inquire from a barkeep as to the available selection of draught beer. Alas there is only a popular Labatt's brand available...a surprising circumstance that could be said to have originated in this other idiom (and slogan).
What's on tap out of the blue
In 1970, Led Zeppelin sang about a [Good Brothers]' Pole. The lyrics beseech [Adam Page] to hold a little while, as the protagonist thinks he sees his friends riding many a mile to bring a little silver or a little gold to save him from the titular [Good Brother]'s pole.
Gallows, Hangman
(100 points each)
This wrestler, who is 'Number 4' in the Dark Order, is a shorter iteration of the iconic villain from Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate adventure.
John Silver
I bet you can't see the connection:
Sisters
Suicide Squad 2
[rooster emoji]Blockers
Trainwreck
John Cena movies
This wrestler, famed for his walls, was besieged by the Israelites during their conquest of Canaan (Joshua 6:1-27).
Jericho
The Dropkick Murphy's are shipping out to this location in order to study the phenomenon of carcinization, whereby sea creatures demonstrate a tendency to convergently evolve into this shape.
Boston Crab
Are you an "obsessed fan" of this invisible wrestler who debuted as the eponymous character in Eminem & Dido's 2000 collaboration? His match against The Invisible Man in arguably the greatest comedy wrestling match of all time.
Stan
Victor Hugo's 1862 novel famously inspired a smash Broadway musical; an anglicized abbreviation of its title can also be found in this nickname name used by multi-time champion Michael Mizanin.
The Miz
This 2002 Britney Spears movie is so infamously terrible that "The American Nightmare" Cody uses it as his finishing move.
Crossroads (Cross Rhodes)
Find the Connection:
An Hebrew archangel
A monstrous villain in countless franchises (e.g. WH40k, Supernatural, The Mortal Instruments)
A wrestler who *thinks* she's a zombie
An Italian Black Metal band
Abad(d)on
Before & Wrestling Term & After:
A chilly children's game of chasing and catching is played by the villainous faction of the early Pokemon franchise.
Freeze tag team Rocket
Destination Unknown? Not in this 1995 Rancid hit, which follows up that declaration with the titular alias of wrestler Dori Prange.
Ruby Soho
Journeyman tag team "The Butcher and the Blade" would be right at home in the title of this 1969 Vonnegut novel. So it goes.
Slaughterhouse-5
Taz's son Tyler Senerchia was hardly a lost boy in his debut year; he not only made a huge impact in the ring, he also replaced Dustin Hoffman as Robin William's titular antagonist in this 1991 film.
Hook
This Leader of the House of Black is the 12th (and last) Hebrew Prophet who foretold the coming of Christ.
Malakai / Malachi
Before & Wrestling Term & After:
Grind away at your office job to ascend to the top of the company's organizational hierarchy; if doing so makes you "Unwell", tell your boss to get "Bent", indulge your angst at "3AM", and "Push" yourself back to the "Real World" by listening to this turn-of-the-Millennium emo/alt band.
(Climbing the) Corporate Ladder Matchbox Twenty