{"id":41115,"date":"2026-02-10T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41115"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:59:30","slug":"the-smashing-machine-2025-written-directed-by-benny-safdie-starring-dwayne-johnson-emily-blunt-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41115","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Smashing Machine&#8221; (2025) written &amp; directed by Benny Safdie, starring Dwayne Johnson &amp; Emily Blunt \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z021026zview_smashingmachine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"713\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Smashing Machine <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Benny Safdie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Benny Safdie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader <\/strong>and <strong>Bas Rutten.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The unforgettable true story of a UFC legend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Kerr was a high school state wrestling champion.\u00a0 He was a NCAA Division I collegiate wrestling champion, a World Cup freestyle wrestling gold and silver medalist, and silver medalist in the Pan American Games.\u00a0 Kerr was one of the first UFC fighters and a two-time UFC Heavyweight tournament champion.<\/p>\n<p>This is his story.\u00a0 Warts and all.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bas Rutten, Kerr&#8217;s former coach and friend plays himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dwayne Johnson is transformed into Mark Kerr.\u00a0 The make-up is amazing.\u00a0 Also Johnson gets to show real acting chops in his most &#8220;real&#8221; performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>The Smashing Machine <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 4 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z021026zview_smashingmachine2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smashing Machine (2025) Director: Benny Safdie Screenplay: Benny Safdie Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader and Bas Rutten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,66,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-mma","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41116,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41115\/revisions\/41116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}