Rusty Kleberkuh graduates college (by force) and becomes a professional wrestler. After working his way through West Valley Championship Wrestling, he's called up to the Mongo Wrestling Alliance where he hopes to avenge his grandfather, long ago betrayed by the MWA's booker.
The Kleberkuh family and Johnny Dubose both court Rusty's newest find, the gigantic dimwitted hillbilly Booter Lee Bogg.
After meeting in the desert to discuss business, Johnny Dubose and Baron Kleberkuh are mistakenly presumed dead.
Fat Balthazaar Kleberkuh runs away to Mexico and gets involved with an evil Mexican wrestling cult where the losers hearts are eaten. Rusty has to wrestle a 600 pound midget in order to save him.
Rusty obsesses over a ballerina and decides to try ballet in order to win her over. Booter Lee Bogg, meanwhile, ponders the idea of a woman who's half goose.
Rusty is framed for murder. Balthazaar is his legal counsel during the trial, but they also have a back-up plan to have Stack Johnson intimidate the jury if things don't go their way.
The family take on a mutant cult of wrestlers from the swamps of Louisiana.
Rusty tires of wrestling and attempts to lead a normal life by becoming a health-supplement salesman and moving in with an old girlfriend.
Stack Johnson opens a seafood restaurant to help pay off his debt to Johnny DuBose.
Rusty ditches Balthazaar in favor of the Nekro Nurses, so Balthazaar decides to train with a doctor who uses questionable methods.