The film stars David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan, Diamond Dallas Page, Joe Pantoliano and Martin Landau.

Sewage workers Gordie Boggs and Sean Dawkins watch their favorite wrestler, undefeated and undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Champion Jimmy King get cheated out of the title by Diamond Dallas Page (DDP), promoter Titus Sinclair, and DDP's wrestling stable at a Monday Nitro event.

Gordie starts believing that the crash was supposed to happen and that they should make Jimmy King once again the WCW World Heavyweight Champion.

Looking for King, they travel to his hometown of Atlanta hitching a ride from singing nuns with flatulent problems and find his parents and estranged wife.

The duo later finds King residing in a mobile park, who had completely given up on wrestling, and push his buttons him to the point where he attacks them.

Sinclair then declares a Title vs. Career Steel Cage match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship plus a $1 million cash prize.

At the hospital, Gordie overhears Sasha at a phone booth and learns that she was working as a spy for Sinclair the entire time.

The trio head back to Georgia to visit Kings wife, who kicks him in the crotch for giving her crabs and abandoning her and their son.

He does, however, hold a party for King and wishes him luck in the Steel Cage match while Sean hooks up with Wendy, a fast-food drive thru employee.

King ultimately wins the match by dropping DDP from the top of the cage to the floor of the ring and reaching for the belt.

The storyline was reviled by wrestling fans, and Arquette himself reportedly believed it was a bad idea, as he felt that it would damage the value of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship he held in such high regard.

"[5] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 23 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[7] BBC film reviewer Neil Smith commended the efforts of both Platt and Landau in their respective roles but felt the film overall was the typical Hollywood comedy, consisting of "oafish slapstick and lavatorial humour in place of genuine wit or imagination", concluding that it "has its moments, but ultimately feels just as bogus as the Lycra-clad charlatans it lionises.

Club's Nathan Rabin criticized the filmmakers for trying to satirize and indulge in the world of wrestling and ignore it for rehashed humor from films like The Wedding Singer and Mallrats, concluding that, "[I]n its attempts not to offend wrestling fans or the wrestlers who make brief, bland appearances, Ready To Rumble is plodding, obvious, toothless, and unfunny.

"[11] The Austin Chronicle's Marjorie Baumgarten agreed with the critics about the "asinine plot, premise, and performances" but admitted to laughing at a few moments that shows the film being honest with itself about its creation, concluding that, "Filled with lots of appearances by real wrestling stars, the movie seems a certain shoo-in among a certain demographic.