In the eighties, no one was tougher than Rambo. One of the toughest characters of all time, he comes armed with the beat-down skills of the Green Berets and the guts to use them in the civilian world. This character fills body bags and leaps from cliffs like it's nothing.

What's tougher than wrestling for money? Getting your gentle-giant kid brother to do it for you, as Stallone's Cosmo does in this period flick. Add a wifebeater, a driving cap, a dangling cigarette, and some scrappy run-ins with a Hell's Kitchen gangster, and that's a tough guy you can bet on.