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I don't actually know what it means, but essentially, when sports entertainment decides to go totally off the rails and becomes ridiculous, I'm a happy panda, it's just the best. So to celebrate the fact goofy wrestling is for life here are 10 of the very best examples. And yes, of course, I will have forgotten loads. That's what the comments are for. Drop them below. This man is a damn hero, while our truth has always been an excellent performer who found some real success as the TNA World Champion back in the day. When it became clear he needed to do something different to stand out in WWE, he just went nuts. But he was in the money in the back match before realising he wasn't entering the raw rumble with the gold to eliminate Paul Heyman, then finding out it was Brock Lesnar he'd be facing so swiftly at announcing himself, or bringing a lather into the raw rumble because he got the stipulation wrong, truth is simply the best. He also made the 24-7 title worthwhile even when clean nobody else cared, do not forget little Jimmy. That imaginary guy often convinced truth not to get into fights and he didn't even exist.

In many ways you could crown wrong killings the king of goofy wrestling, that man just totally gets it, and I love him. Number 9, Santino Morella can't pronounce people's names. I mean, surely Santino is a close second to truth for all of this, hell, maybe he's number one, dude was hilarious. It's even better because he debuted as a serious MMA dude until Morella decided it was much easier to put a cobra on his hand, and just karate poke people. Santino would also snake charm individuals with that thing, and of course couldn't get anybody's name right. John Chayne, the honky-tonky man, Rodney the Piper, Baptista, Golden Dust, could honestly do this all day and I'd never stop smiling. He would also celebrate like he'd won the lottery even if he got a victory by count out, and that fake trombone stuff, my word, it was glorious. So he is another man I shall adore forever because he just understood it, and don't tell me funny doesn't mean money. Remember when it was him and Daniel Bryan in the final of that elimination chamber, and everybody wanted Santino to win? That doesn't just happen, and it was all because of this. Number 8, the best friends aren't sure.

Trent and Chuck rule, not only are they always on hand to have a great match because they're reliable Richards, but they really do make the most of their minutes. For example, before a big old tag team match earlier this year, when we got the usual promo video with everybody telling us how they were going to win, the best friends took a very different approach, because they weren't sure. Yep, they could promise us a big win, but that may not happen, so therefore they were just going to try their best, but again, maybe that wouldn't be enough, this wrestling stuff is hard. Around this time, Chuck E.T. and Trent were also livid because they couldn't use chainsaws in a match, and then it is so true. Everybody else brings crazy weapons into matches, why not an item of death? We are just scratching the surface here, because these two have been doing it for years, and I really do appreciate it, and you want to know why? Sometimes I just want to laugh. Number 7, the Price is Raw. The guest host, E.R.Fore, was the definition of hit and miss. Do you remember when Jeremy Piven turned up and most definitely did not want to be there? If not, good. Keep it that way. At times, WWE got it right, though, and it was no better than in 2009, when Bob Barker

turned up to play the Price is Right. The rumour beforehand was everybody expected him to not get it, but nope. Bob was a total pro, played his role to perfection, and even started an all-time few with Chris Jericho, who came out bare-chested with his name tags still attached to his pecs. Hero. Barker also ruined him by sarcastically-congraturing Jericho when he finally decided to talk, and set him away as soon as he accidentally said the number one, Bob decided that was his bid. Now yes, a lot of this segment is also difficult, because you have to sit through that stupid singing gimmick we gave to Jillian Hall, but that's what makes the Bob Jericho stuff twice as good. They basically saved an entire chunk of raw, and did it while playing the whole thing, super seriously. Only in wrestling. 6. Booker T and Stone Cold Steve Austin Fight in a Grocery Store I mean this was so absurd, Booker T ran away to a supermarket trying to escape the clutches of Steve Austin when Stone Cold found him and made food quip the entire time, and anybody else had done it, the internet would have roasted them. As ever though, because they threw themselves into it, the whole thing has become part of

wrestling folklore, to the point people still talk about this today. For example, Price Check on Jackass is one of the most ludicrous things ever said. A major reason I wanted to get in here though, is because it proves that serious and goofy wrestling can coexist. Austin never did anything less he believed in it, and Booker T is secretly the funniest dude ever. Do you remember King Booker? He got it too. An underrated highlight is the Rouse Nate telling Book to look at the pretty flowers before hurling him into the arrangement, and do not forget, this was at the height of the attitude era 2. 5. Just Kurt Angle Yep, just Kurt Angle. Austin actually does get brought back in here too, because the peak of the Olympic gold medalist is Nonsense, was when he and Stone Cold were best enemies and trying to win the affections of Vince McMahon. Kurt despite all his legitimacy was more than happy to be the butt of the joke too, as he wore stupid cowboy hats, wanted badges, and even dressed up like biker taker. The man didn't care, as long as it was entertaining. This was also around the time Austin was playing his unhinged character during the evasion, and did that backstage segment where he repeated everything Bookman said, as if he was making

it be even more impactful. Not only does Kurt sell that like we're watching the birth of a new world, but Stone Cold even breaks the undertaker, I mean go watch the clip, the dead man has to cover his face to stop laughing. Angle also did that whole story where he wore a fake wig after being shaved bald, and when he was exposed, reacted like he'd been shot. Anyways, he is the perfect pro wrestler, number 4 half time heat. This proved how much of a pass the attitude he erregates. One of the most memorable moments ever was the rock and mankind fighting for the WWF title in an empty arena. Now this was basically a giant adverb because it aired during the Super Bowl half time, but have you seen this recently, it is utterly stupid in the best possible way. I mean the rock is eating grapefruit and spitting it out because it's mild, and getting confused as to what an animal objects are because they're just scattered around the place. The even grabs Mick Foley's face and presses it into an oven grill, complete with over the top burning sound effects, and nope, that thing is most definitely not turned on. The great one also answered the phone and has fake phone calls and I tell you, if we did

this today, all the wrestling can't be silly naysets would be out in force, but this is over the top madness. It's also why it rules, and even though that last shot of the rock's face takes it a little too far, it all does tie in. The People's Champion lost his belt because Mankind got in a fork lift and crossed his chest, which the referee decided to count as a pin, that is absolute nonsense, let's do it again. 3. MGF and Adam Cole love to hate each other. So I am throwing this in there as it shows that even in 2023 you can do it, you've just got to believe. When MGF and Adam Cole did get thrown together in the blind eliminated tag team tournament though, it made sense. They had just fought for the AEW World title, and this would allow them to extend that feud after they went to a draw. Let's spice things up. What we didn't attend for is that they would go, pure goofy wrestling. I mean since they've hooked up, they've acted like the double clothesline is the most devastating move in our sports entertainment, hung out and yelled at people in a gym, visited an outback steakhouse because they were facing Aussie Open, and decided a kangaroo kick is the

only way to beat Australians in wrestling. Cole even rented Crocodile Dundee. The pair also went back to 80's wrestling for their matches too, and what was the result? One of the best ratings AEW has done in ages. As of me recording this we don't know the outcome of it all, but I would just merge them into one wrestler and let them be together forever more. I just want more silliness please, and not just because it's fun, it's made me like them more as people, which is gotta be the whole idea to begin with. 2 The Final Deletion Nothing in recent memory has split fans more than this. Such was the hype Matt Hardy caused with his cinematic matches. John Cena even demanded to see it during a WWE tour. From there Cena would have hourly viewings to show the rest of the crew, that does not just happen. Even individuals here at What Culture weren't sure what to make of it, which is a nice reminder that we are all unique human beings, and we like different things. As you may have guessed it though, I thought this was absolutely amazing, and the broken Matt character should be shoved in some sort of goofy wrestling hall of fame. Not only was it just the equivalent of taking drugs and watching some grappling, but the

insider jokes were out of control, the man with 3h's will forever be the best way to describe Triple H. It's not like Matt was just mucking around either, as this brought people in to watch TNA, and it likely resulted in one of their most successful periods. It is a shame that Vince McMahon didn't get it because the sheer levels we could have taken it to, but still, we got that brawl with a new day, yes I loved that as well. As Xavier Woods, Covey Kingston and Biggie have come up too, they absolutely deserve a shout out, because my word may have embraced goofiness since day one. The trio used it so well they managed to switch from heels to faces on a dime, which is a big loving for all of these guys. Thank you for bringing me so much joy. Number one, the main event switcheroo. So as we have said, if you are a main event wrestler apparently, you've got to be serious. Nobody will buy into you if you take yourself lightly, so you've got to grow all the time. I disagree. Now of course you have to do this if you're on the cusp of a major match, but otherwise, wrestling never ends, so you can't just do that all the time, stupid. Therefore, look at this, we've had Sting dressing up like Sting, only to take a mask off

in a real than it is Sting. The rock acting like the hurricane was an actual superhero as he flew off into the apparent skies. Triple H losing his mind that Covey Kingston's accent vanished to the bloodline cracking up over Sami Zayn's use of the term oocy. Austin dishing out cuddles like they were stammers, Jericho's long list of moves, and hey, even the whole premise of RK bro, they don't work unless they do ham it up, and Randy Orton is seen as a mega top guy. He doesn't always click as getting Goldberg to wear a wig as among the most stupid ideas ever, but there's a flip side to this. Boombox Brock Lesnar. Remember that? The most legit dude in all of WWE winning the money in the bank and treating the briefcase like it was a speaker. I mean, the man even danced. I am happy to tell you that that made me love Lesnar even more, which once again sums it up. Nobody should take themselves too seriously in the world of madness, far better to choose option 2, goofy wrestling for life. Hopefully this was Paige de Sorbo from Giggly Squad, and today I want to talk to you about Boost Mobile. Quick question, why are we letting our phone bills bully us? Here's a money tip.

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a card a little further about the guy, and Nina as the highest compliment, he just totally understand all aspects of professional wrestling, and the man was laugh out loud, hilarious. I mean, it's been like 20 years, and people are still doing that I'm going to throw you the steel chair spot on the floor to make the referee think, I've got you. And if you've never seen the clip of Eddie Guerrero and the tag rope, well you should search for it today. Eddie Guerrero is one of the best wrestlers of all time, and the reason for that is because he got every single aspect of the number 11 Chelsea Green. So it was the one to get somebody new-ish in there, because it's so easy to forget the people that are running around right now. But Chelsea Green is like me perfect employee, that sounds weird, but I'm pretty sure as she basically talked about in the Unreal documentary, she would turn up to work and you could say, hello Chelsea, we need to dress you up as a mushroom, and then we're going to chop you up and put you in a salad, and she would go totally cool, let me figure it out. It all comes down to entertains people, and look what she is doing right now, she's in charge of the secret hermits. Even the name is utterly ridiculous, and apart from when she did win that US title, which

did happen because fans love her and find this so funny, her career probably goes lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, but it doesn't matter, because you'll give her a microphone or a backstage skit a week later, and she'll just be right back where she was. You also have to pay attention to her in backstage kit, because there'll always be something that is a little bit ridiculous, and also, she wants war, wrestling gear to the ring, that had her face on it a lot, that's a bit like 42 different pictures. Listen, take Steve Austin, right, if Steve Austin would come to the ring with a picture of him with his gear, nobody would have understood, but when Chelsea does it, let's just keep it simple, man, it's goofy wrestling for life, pretend the young bucks. So I find it totally mad when people do get mad at the youngest, because they've essentially forgotten what they did do for pro wrestling, because along with Cockabana, who we will talk about later, they went, well, maybe we don't need to make it to the so-called big leagues, in order to be proper professional wrestlers and make money, and damn it, they opened the door, and my gosh, dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of other wrestlers follow. Of course, most people do know how great they are on the ring, and of course, that's

going to settle for comments, but their goofy side is what I think sets them apart, which is what they're doing right now, ever since they lost their EVP status, but only have they come to the ring, listening to Hanson, but they also actually did $20 Indy Meat in Greece. There's a professional wrestler myself who quite literally did a $20 meat degree a few days ago, made me full woman fuzzy in my tap-tam. They also took bumps onto gummy bears when they were on that forbidden door show, which genuinely pleased me, because people got so mad, and just go and watch any BTE YouTube episode, which also re-launched this week, some brass and brass, as it's funny as it always was. And even their name is a wink wink now to now to those who criticized them early on, because people would say the old guy, I suppose, oh man, look at those young bucks, as if to say they're a bunch of idiots, the Matt and Nick Jackson was like, all right, we'll be the young bucks. Case closed. I really do think it comes down to the fact that they knew they could have great matches in the ring, so why don't we just have a barrel of laughs outside of it? It's why Carter was able to be so funny too when he did join AEW properly, and salad up with the elite.

I don't think he would have got away with some of those skits, if it wasn't for the Jackson's. Absolutely love him. Number nine, Orange Cassidy. Orange Cassidy is a really interesting case, because he was essentially a really good pro wrestler, who one day, I assume, stared off into the distance and thought to himself, well, this isn't really getting me anywhere, just being like a technician in the square circle. So what if I come up with a gimmick when I don't actually care? It's also totally relatable, because how many times, even this week, have you woken up and thought to yourself, oh man, I can't be bothered, and then you go into work and you get the job done, that's essentially Orange Cassidy. It's also a proper meta wrestler as well, because even though he does those little kicks, which is meant to be, oh man, now I've got to do this too, he's also doing it in order to wind up his opponent, and when his opponent tries to strike, all of the sun orange becomes the best flippy-dippy-doo-dart wrestler you've ever seen in your life, and I mean this, even thinking about it, I actually think he can do it all. Apart from promos, we can do promos, he just chooses not to do promos, and that's because he can't be bothered.

You see this? It's like the Ouberos, just goes round and round. My go-to of recent times will be the match that Cassidy had against the Outrunners in Rampage back in 2024, and actually a massive shout out to the Outrunners too, but when they were doing their Miss Elbow spot in the way the orange Cassidy related to it, I'll just tell you, it's a big reason he does get a mention here. I probably watched that once every six weeks, because I just want to laugh. The older I get, the more I realise, as long as I am having a good time, who the club cares was actually happening on my TV screen, orange Cassidy is an absolute legend. Number 8, Danhausen. I mean, what even is it? I don't think the Danhausen character has ever been explained, and the best example of why it works so well is some people go, no, don't look at Danhausen, then you inquire, have you ever actually watched his stuff, and of course they haven't, they just react as a social media, and they sit down, they watch about too much, his then go, ha ha ha, it's hilarious. Danhausen has also had love from the likes of the Roxy and Punk, and even Conan O'Brien, which is the most ludicrous thing of all time, and his interviews are always the best as

is his ability to curse. So you can go watch his indie run, he has come up with so many gimmicks from this, including this one time, where he was going to curse somebody, and they put a mirror up as if to reverse said cursed, and Danhausen, he basically had a meltdown, he did not know what that in his life. He's the first of a golden money as well, he's just tremendous, and if you do need an up-to-date example, go and watch the video he did recently with Pepsi Phil when he gave him a t-shirt, I mean not even seeing Punk keep a straight face, it's too damn entertaining. I always got to wrestle him once at UPW, so I do another tear of somebody pouring teeth into your mouth. My brand new wrestling dream is Miller Housen, we have to dare to believe this could come true, but yeah, Danhausen in terms of a comedy character or a goofy character, or just a wrestler that understands what the business is, he's right out there, number 7 Kevin Owens. So he is my modern day go, and I actually think WWE has been worse ever since Kevin Owens did step away, because he's another guy where you can just give him any kind of storyline, any kind of script, he'll read it and go, yep, I got it, I can figure it out. He's such a 180 wrestler as well, because of course a big reason why he did have to have

surgery to begin with is because he has just kicked his ass in wrestling matches since his days in the indie scene, but then you can put him in a car and turn him to cut a promo round the Orton, and you will be laughing out loud. Remember that whole stuff with Ezekiel, or Elijah, or Elijah, whatever the flab he was called? That should have been the worst storyline ever, you're going to pretend to be your own brother, and who made it work, his name is Kevin Owens. His friendship back in 2016 with Chris Jericho was also laugh out loud, funny, why do you think the best of the friendship works so much? It's because fans believed in these two, and then Kevin turned his back and stabbed him right in the heart, which is also something he's done time and time again. Which is also kind of funny, most because Kevin will never let you forget, if something has happened in the WWE sphere that he was involved in, it's always going to tie into his character. I just really think he understands what most matches or skits need. There's a clip up there that you can find right now, where he applies a headlock, and he just sounds, I'm the headlock master. Somebody give him a prize. I mean, there was a reason that he was the guy chosen to face Steve Austin that doesn't

happen by accident, and I genuinely think you can pick any era, any year, and any roster. And if you put KO in it, it's going to make that roster better. I often think he could be my third favorite wrestler of all time, because I stand here today. I'm going to say that's true. Number six, Mick Foley. I mean, halfway through what was the most successful one of his career, Mick Foley came out as dude love, some weird tied-eye dude, that danced a lot. And did this end his career? Nope. Did it somehow make him better? Yes, and that's because Mick Foley's another guy. He understands what wrestling is, and he would have been able to pull anything off. But I really do think he's an individual who doesn't get the credit he deserved, because again, early on, he was just killing his body in order to get over, which did work because it brought him to the WWE, and when he wanted to elongate his run, well, here's some of the stuff that he started to do. He pulled a sock out of his pants, about time he accidentally terrorised Vincent Mann in the hospital. All his ridiculous segments were edge in Christian, and that one time he got one over the rock in a promo, and did a victory lap to celebrate, which was so damn funny, the rock laugh right

at the rate. Zero ego definitely helped, but he was another dude that was just an all-round performer, and if he was on Raw, Raw was better, and he was on SmackDown, SmackDown was better, and his win lost record is actually pretty bad, but nobody cared about that, so if you tuned into the show, you're just wanting to see what he was going to do. You can even see that time he had a puppet battle with Santina Morella, when it was Cobra, versus Sokka Puppet. I think I can leave it there. Once again, there are many individuals and wrestlers who wouldn't even be able to be involved by that, and Mick Foley was a former WWE Champion, the man is a legend, of a five-kulk-a-mana. So he is the goat in many ways, because we talked about what the Young Bucks did to independent wrestling, and before then there was Kulk-a-mana, who not only basically sorted out merchandise for indie wrestlers, but if you were listening to a wrestling podcast right now, and what I'm doing too, well, we should all go and meet Kulk and say, er, thank you very much, talk about Open the Door, he basically turned it into a tunnel. I've actually worked on shows where he's performed as well, so I've got to see it up close, and the man is just a phenomenal worker, and yes, at the wink of an eye, he can all

of a sudden add in something stupid, or something dumb, or something goofy, but now only does it elevate the match, but it makes everybody laugh, and afterwards they get in, like, gosh, it had a terrific time, that is the flabbing point. I'm not sure how much of this exists on the internet, we should try and find it today, and his feud with MJF, when Kulk-a-mana was meant to be his terrible dad. Honestly, I could watch that thing ten times over, it's a very, very entertaining. He was also one of the guys that helped bring in this boom, where all of a sudden, if you were wrestling on TV, you could make jokes in the match, and that was totally fine, and I hope people like to go, oh man, stupid DWG grenades, but it goes way deeper than that, and it is a skill, and arguably, Kulk-a-Banner is one of the best to miss before William Regal. So he very, very well-being the most underrated wrestler in history, and if every single person in this business treated the profession as William Regal did, I think it would be way better, because he may have been the king of this. Here's your creative script, Mr. William, are you able to come up with something? Every single time he said, you bet your S. Remember the time he was told that Chris Jericho was going to pee in his tea, which rhymes

where it must be true, he was able to get this over by having the silliest facial reaction I've ever seen, one of the reasons people still talk about it today. It was the same when he knocked out the big show with brass knocks, but wasn't ready for this giant to fall on him. So he sat there trying to kick out, but the weight was too much. He honestly looked like a fish out of water. Once again, I'm just going to use the word, it was perfect. Nearly anything he did with Jiri was so damn watchable too, because they had great chemistry. William Regal has always said he looked to the comedy greats of Britain in order to figure all that stuff into his act, and my gosh, you can see it, my gosh, did it work. I mean, there's also the fact he could have a serious wrestling match too, and everybody believed him as a killer as well. So yeah, if you were trying to make it in this industry, go and study William Regal today, because there's nothing that he wouldn't do, he just always made sure he was 100% committed. Number three, Kurt Anglott. Do you really do want to talk about somebody who was an absolute goofball outside the ring, but the absolute man inside the ropes, surely the first name that comes to your lips as the Olympic gold medalist, Kurt Anglott?

Because it wasn't just the fact that he was basically a great wrestler within a day, as soon as he signed with WWE, it was how fast his character came along too, because he went from not being able to cut a promo to being somebody who stuck in the ring for 20 minutes, and the ratings would go up. You know what I'm talking about too, because there was the cowboy hat, a timing accidentally made a word for a par with speaking about boys, basically everything he did in the build-up to the Shore Michaels match, the three eyes, Lonson, when and where he chose to counter him here. And everything he did with Edge and Christian, I mean, those three together, go and YouTube a compilation of their skits right now, and it's laugh out loud. And it's just crazy how quickly Kurt Anglott realized, wait a minute, I am superb in the ring, which probably means I can be an absolute moron outside of it, that's exactly what he did, time and time again. He was essentially a walking loony tune, and if all of a sudden somebody booked me to teach Goofy resting the people, which would be a very strange seminar, Kurt Anglott would be my first go-to, because again, there's nothing he could not do. Number two are truth. So imagine this, my friends, all of a sudden I introduced an idea to you that it's not going to work with a current audience, and it's going to go on and on and on and on and

yet actually at the end of the day be considered a success due to one man, I am of course talking about a 24-7 title, and I am talking about our truth. Can you imagine if he had been injured or not with the WWE, when that thing was going on, we would be looking at it very differently. But even now some people are like, oh man, that was the worst time ever, but not when our truth was around, like everything he did with Carmella, and the fact he didn't trust anyone, and the fact that he turned it into the most important pop in his entire life, I mean, he even stood in the ring with Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar, and took shots at them at the 24-7 championship. He's just been a funny laugh out loud dude for years, and I absolutely love him, and the real criticism I have at the moment is I was excited, the serious wrong killings, midst with silly our truth, but some reason WWE threw it away. You know this is true though, because again, you don't get released from WWE and then really high, because there is such an outpork of, uh, excuse me, why did you do this? I really all started that one time, he came out thinking he wasn't the money in the bank match, I need to be told, you're not even in it, and then with the best comic

time, just with, uh, my bad, and he walked off, and actually sometimes WWE overbooked him in those spots, but our truth is so good, so funny, so entertaining, and just completely understands the role he was given, he hit a home on every time, you want to talk about wrestlers, I consider it on my old time list, our truth is right up there, because why do I watch a stupid stuff, to be entertained, and that man, wrong killings, our truth, has never done anything but that, is a flippin' livin' legend, number one, Santino Marella. So what I thought for a while, how best to represent the fact that Santino Marella is the ultimate goofy wrestler for lives, then I thought I'm just gonna pull up a list of names, or list of mispronouncinations, the Santino called wrestlers over the years, there was John Chena, Shemus, Ray Mysterio, the Manimal, Baptista, Rodney the Piper, Paul Stone, Steve Austin, Drew McIntosh, and of course one of my favourites, the honky donkey man. Now all of that sounds terrible coming from me, but that is the wonder of Santino Marella, he was just the funny dude who could make you laugh, and even his real walk when he wiggled his hips was funny, and even when he won a match, he would do that victory lap

around the ring, and pretend to play a fake trombone, and of course he had the cobra, all of this a paper, sounds absolutely terrible, believe when I watch it now, my gosh it makes me laugh, and then I get mad, because he should have been the guy to beat the honky donkey man's record, and then WWE just threw that away, but go back and look at these things, the 2011 Royal Rumble, where people were desperate for Santino Marella to win, or the elimination chamber, when it wins him and down your bride at the end, the crowd actually think he can do it, and again it all comes down to how damn entertaining he is, which is why I don't understand how people go, oh man wrestlers shouldn't be goofy, oh yeah, well it worked for Santino when I tell you this, he had won that Royal Rumble, he had won the elimination chamber, on that night it would have been considered a moment, just because this dude went out there, and busted his ass in a very specific way, to make sure he was damn hilarious, and I'm pretty sure he was successful at that every single time, and yes I have to say now not all of this is aged very well, but we'll just push that too one side, and I like goofy wrestlers in Santino, what a goofy wrestler, and given that

he was doing this what 20 years ago, and it still continues today, well I think it proves my point my friends, is goofy wrestling, is for life, and that'll be names I have forgotten, and I hate myself, what are you gonna do? So hello, my name is Simon Ella, I am the ball day hall, and I really really enjoy goofy wrestling, I think it's for life, and what culture over the last few weeks have been very nice to me, if they have allowed me to make a bunch of goofy wrestling videos, I think this is the last one we're doing for the time being, but if I get the opportunity to do more I will, the joy of goofy wrestling is that we do have goofy wrestlers that will lean into it, but sometimes you get a super serious wrestler, who also fights himself in a comedic position, and somehow that makes it even funnier, just because you never thought it was gonna happen to begin with, like if I all of a sudden grew hair, people would be surprised, you probably liked it a bit less, just life doesn't make any sense, otherwise that's right I have gone through 10 times serious wrestlers were put in wonderfully goofy positions, and I thought I would give them to you right now, number 10 Menoros Suzuki in 2023, so if you are not familiar with

the Japanese promotion known as DDT, you have to change that today, because I think one day everybody in charge of that company sat down and just went, I think we should just entertain ourselves, and that should entertain the fans as well, oh my gosh, they hit a home run every single time, like in September 2023 they did this again as well, because San Shiro Takaki and Menoros Suzuki fought on a literal bullet train in Japan, now again, I'm sure you're aware of who Suzuki is, but his nickname is Murder Grand Park, because people are so terrified of him, and you can go back to watch him in his MMA days, and if you're not scared by the end of it you will, that guy didn't give a damn he is gonna flood you up, here though DDT quite literally rented a carriage in the train, it goes on for 30 minutes at one point, Suzuki goes for a bow driver, on Takaki and he holds him there, so the other people on the flip and train can take pictures and celebrate, and then he drops him on his head, and as you can imagine, fighting through a damn train for half an hour is just the greatest thing in the world, and it's just funnier because it's

when Ororo Suzuki, so once again, don't you come into my house and tell me he doesn't understand what wrestling is, if he wanted to be super duper death mad he will be, but if you want him to have a fight on public transport he'll do the two, I rarely see a DDT show I don't like, and this is one of my favorite matches ever in that category, it was just so utterly ridiculous, he always wanted to throw in his matches, he had with Toro Yarno too, and I would now refer to this picture here, which is Suzuki about to do a power driver, and Yarno trying to stop him, I poured water over his head, take my friends, makes me feel warm and fuzzy in my tank tank, number nine, boom box Brock in 2019, that's actually quite a hard thing to say, and again as I will always tell you when Brock Lesnar does come up, please watch my other videos for my 2025 take on the man, but if you do go back to 2019, Brock Lesnar was quite kidney being pitched as the beef, as the scary man, I'd be the only take a streak, and nobody could touch me, I'm the final boss, all of a sudden, he did come back during the money in the bank match, and won the briefcase, and my gosh go what's a Chris Van Blink show, and the stuff where I lean into me about what happened

there, or blow your mind, but the next night on Raw he came out with a boom box, now I don't mean a literal boom box, but within the word of K-Fade, Brock Lesnar, one of the scariest people on the planet had turned his briefcase into what was meant to be a speaker, he put his hood up, and he would dance, pretending he was listening to music, now because it was been sort of man's WWE, eventually some random fake tunes did come out of the thing, but this was totally unhinged, especially because he was feeling with Seth Rollins, and then Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman would dance and rock out to set his music feet, so what the flabbers happened here, and who put drugs in Brock's milk, it totally worked, no because again it was a 180, and for whatever reason, Brock Lesnar was having the time of his life, and on occasion it was quite funny too, this is also when Brock learned he had 12 months to catch in his contract, and he went totally nuts at Paul Heyman going why are you rushing this, why did you tell me I had to use this catch in as soon as possible, I've got a year, they fell out live on TV, maybe do go back and watch it now, and let's

say you only knew Brock Lesnar from MMA, you'll still be like this is absolutely crazy, but once again it's a great example to any body that does step in the square circle, you don't have to be serious all of the time, and if you do pick your moments as to when to be goofy, it's actually going to extend your career, you can make people laugh, that'll be him for good, number 8 William Regal, now actually most people these days think William Regal is a comedic wrestler and that's because he was, but if you go back to stuff he was doing over here in the UK or his first WCW run, he was one of the most feared dudes ever, go and watch his matches with fit Finley in both champs of wrestling, William Regal would take this first hand, they just kicked the absolute ship out of each other, and this was one tough son of a gun, when you know about the Goldberg match 2, they didn't go to Williams, they thought that would be funny, they knew Regal could handle itself, even then though when it was in WWE, he drank Chris Jericho's urine, which is the stupidest thing I've ever said in my life, his relationship with Tajiri was absolutely excellent and never

forget that finish to the match he did with the big show, when he punched him with the brass nuts, which bet the big show passed out, but because he is a giant, he landed on William Regal who lost after the 1-2-3, and when he's being pinned, he is trying to kick out like he's a fish, sorry man, we do not give William Regal the credit he deserves, many, many first got brought in, he had that stupid man's man's gimmick, and one of this felt like a rip on William Regal, once again he just made it work, because you could give him anything and using his inspirations, which was old school British comedy, he just found a way to make it funny, he goes back to the point I made a few minutes ago, if you make somebody laugh, even if it's only for a week they will love you more, and Regal was the poster boy for this, I will never stop singing that man's praises, he should have been the world champion eventually, and never happened, it was a mistake, number 7, a carder, in AW, and there's one more probably somewhat controversial, because I know people way prefer the carder we have now, the unified champion who will whoop your ass at moments notice, I loved it when he did first come into all eat wrestling though and teamed up with

the young bucks, just because he was allowed to show another side to himself, once again, I think all wrestling characters should have a layered personality, it just allows you to show more acting chops, but all the things that he did do was so damn good, like when he got all nervous around Mercedes-Benz, and when he cut Max Caster's wrap off, when you saw him at the production table, and he accidentally hit silent, and then obviously revealed himself to be the culprit, and he was perfectly happy for this to happen, he did go a little bit too far with the whole bitch thing, but he first started doing it and flipping people off, the man was just a laugh right, and he would told anyone back in say 2017, a carder was able to do this, they would have been like no he can't, he only knows one lane, but turns out he was a flipping highway, there were so many times he made me laugh out loud as well, even just with his facial expression, once again, I get it people like I can't believe you did this to the rain maker, I just think it gives you more longevity, I said that a minute ago, I'll set it again right now, and I will always go back and watch Kenny Omega versus a carder, because there's some of the best matches I've all time, but before that, you know what I do, I go on social media, I go on YouTube,

and I turn a bit, a carder funny AW, and the man always makes me crack up, that's a skill, you can't just pull that like a rabbit out of a hat, I want to begin with as much props as possible, number six, Kenny Omega, again we have just talked about Omega versus a carder, I think this is one of the reasons why it was so good, because they had range man, and they were able to step out of themselves, just entertain. Once again, we do go back to DDT, and actually these matches wound up the internet so bad, so I'm probably accidentally going to do it again, but yes, during his time there, not only did Kenny take on a blow up doll, but he also faced a nine year old girl, that sounds absolutely terrible out of context, you have to go and see it with your eyes, because he really doesn't show the true genius of Kenny Omega, because he is essentially having five star classics with both of these entities, because I can't think of a bed or word, and of course the nine year old girl is doing some things, but it's only going to be so much skills she does have, she's nine, and I don't want to ruin your life, but the blow up doll, well it's real, but it can't move, and it's quite literally a blow up doll.

The way that Kenny Omega moves and sells round in both of these matches though just tells you, this ain't no other, or I'm just another wrestler guy, it's a man who has a sports entertainment brain, and you can present him with anything, and he is going to be able to figure it out, it's most definitely goofy, maybe not the young child, but wrestling and inanimate object, I mean I'm sorry, you have to be damn good, there was the old cliché Rupert so good, he could fight a broom, it's the same to what Kenny Omega did, and really it's something that I tell everybody to go and watch, because even though out of context it sounds stupid, when you watch it, well one or two things are going to happen, you already hated it before you even push plays, there's no hope, or by the end of you go alright, it's not my cup of tea, but what a flipping great wrestler Kenny Omega is, number five, Eishi vs Toriyano from New Japan's D1 Climax Tournament back in 2019, so I wanted to get Yano in here somehow, just because I think he's so damn good at this stuff, and what better opponent to pick to get across this serious goofy idea than Ishii, who most people look at and go alright I get he's not very tall, but for some reason I'm terrifying,

this will only take 45 seconds of your time as well, because the start off their G1 Climax match from 2019, Yano instantly runs the turnbuckle pad, he pulls it off, he then goes as she is, who goes crashing into the exposed steel, Yano then tries to roll him up, and that doesn't work, he starts to muck around with a sheety t-shirt, including pulling it off his head when he tries to roll him up again, when he doesn't work for a third time, he then tricks as she wants more, so he goes crashing into the exposed turnbuckle with the prize of prize he rolls him up again, and when he can't get the three, this pad has a breakdown, he bells from the ring like he's about to die, and the sheety sells this, like he's been totally mugged off, honestly, it is perfect, serious yet goofy wrestling, once again beg for forgiveness to his absolutely hilarious, because the match must continue, and again, all of that can't go on for more than a minute, but is a masterclass in footwork, and people understand their characters, like Ishii doesn't look like he's been taking the mic out of here, it just looks like somebody had a plan, and they got the better of him, and how did the Stone Pit Bory act, with Acha Rage,

so he got himself over, Yana also got himself over, and given how many matches you get into G1, this felt totally original, five stars, quite literally 6.25 stars in Tokyo down, number four, Samoa Joe, and the Turkey Bowl in TNA 2007. So this is one of those stupid ideas that TNA came up with, just because it was Thanksgiving, but you had a mini tournament with the winner getting $25,000, but the loser would have to dress up like a turd. The enemy's nice throw this in, because Samoa Joe actually didn't lose, he'd be AJ Styles, meaning AJ had to dress up like the bird, but Samoa Joe, because he is Samoa Joe, the best person in the planet, treats this so damn seriously, and when AJ does have to dress up, you would have thought that Samoa Joe had taken over the world, he comes across like a conqueror. Thoughts are stupidest tournament of all time, because why would you enter it, wrestlers in the way they're presented to us on the television screen, I meant to be like rich celebrities, so why would you put your embarrassment on the line for 25 grand? I think TNA did this for about three years, before they eventually sent

it to it's doom, it's just such a bad idea. When it comes to Samoa Joe, he was like, all right, if you're all gonna put me in this, I'm going to make it work as best as I can, and also TNA put AJ Styles in a turkey suit, one of the best wrestlers of all time, and somebody who made the name TNA means something, it's so stupid. In the worst possible way, I wanted to throw it in there anyway. Number three, Steve Austin's heel turning 2001. How many time you bring this up, obviously you're going to be met with, but it was terrible for business, because numbers went through the toilet, and that is true, but unless you were Vince McMahon or somebody investing in the company, who the club cares man, we're just fans who want to be entertained. And of course up until this point Steve Austin was one of the most serious wrestlers in the world, he talked about it, he even turned down a storyline with Sable being his love interest, because he was like nobody wants to see that, they just want to see me what people's ass, and he was 100% right. However, after he did go bad guy after WrestleMania 17, he wanted to add to his character, when he became a paranoid, hugger loving, mad man essentially, and he does all those skits with

Kurt Angle, and makes it his life work to make people break on camera. Honestly, if you have more time than anybody needs in this life, just go and watch the six months of him doing this, it is laugh out loud funny. And yes, now when we don't have to talk about financials, when you can look back at Austin's career and go, he actually could do everything, doesn't it's funny, funny stuff. When you even get all that madness where it is cuddling Vince McMahon, he's got this look on his face, like he's about to kill him, and even the stuff in the alliance, and don't get me wrong, the invasion angle was so damn bad. But everybody is serenading Steve, and he's so damn happy, honestly, it will make you laugh out loud. Even more so, when he notices that RVD isn't into this, all humorous. You remember that terrible joke he told, what's wrong humorous? Do you not find this humorous? I butchered that, that's not how he said it at all, but now you can go and watch it, and you will see. Steve Austin, how chops do all of this? It's something we don't talk about, never too sure, Michael's at SummerSlam 2005. And the other reason I want to throw this one in there, even though it's super famous,

is talk about taking what should have been one of the most serious matches of all time, the first ever meeting between Sean Michaels and Hulk Hogan, the main event of SummerSlam, the second biggest event of the year, and because Hogan had gone Hogan backstage, Sean had decided, well, I'm going to become late 90s heartbreak kid, and he just turned the entire thing into a fast. Because if you don't know, to get back at Hulk, Sean Michaels bumps and sells his ass off as if he's being hit with a truck. At one point, Hogan grabs his head and slams into the turnbuckle. I'm not exaggerating here. Not only does Sean Michaels do one flip, he then stands up, and basically does a flare flop. Now, if you went into behind the scenes news at the time, you would have watched this and gone, what the fuck is wrong with Sean? This is really, really weird. And once more, WWE hadn't built this up like it was going to be a joke match. They had built up like it was Sean Michaels, that is Hulk Hogan, two of the best obel time. And yes, originally, we were meant to get three matches out of this. Sean Michaels wins one, Hulk Hogan wins two, then Hulk arrived at SummerSlam where that doesn't work for me brother.

So yep, Sean went and told him, but it is goofy because you would never be able to get away with this in any other event of this magnitude. But as opposed, that was the power of Sean Michaels. Hulk Hogan wasn't happy either if you've never seen this. You owe it to yourself to change that. It will actually blow your mind. Even more so with that knowledge in your head, it's quite the bullsie thing to do. Number one, Lance Storm has to dance in 2003. So I wanted to come up with an each one to end this list to hopefully give you something else to watch today. But as you may know, when Lance Storm joined the WWE, Vince McMahon didn't really get the character, which is why one of his storylines was Steve Austin, the current Roger, and coming out and telling Lance he was boring and even falling asleep on a pillow. I mean, I think we were meant to do more with this. We never really dropped the ball, but it wasn't exactly smart. Soon after this, though, he was booked to beat Rico when he was told listen, we're going to tell you babyface Lance. So when you do get the victory, when you want you to celebrate, like you're in the end zone, and you've just scored the match winning touchdown. It was just to add some flavor to his act. When he got to the next show,

an agent Jack Lancer was going through the notes. They were like, uh, yeah, Lance, I've been told during your entrance, you need to do a big dance. Storm was like, no, that's not the case of the tour. Again, I'm just meant to be like an American football player going, yes. And Jack was like, that's not what it says here, so you better move your ass. Paul Lance Storm also talked about this in the Chris Van Bleach showing how he broke down and found Hurricane Helms to try and help him. And they all came up with a happy medium when he would do his entrance. It would be part dance and part celebrating where you are at a football game. When of course, after this, Jack Lancer found him and said, sorry bro, that wasn't enough dancing. Paul Lance Storm at this point was like, wait a minute. This isn't what the gimmick was meant to be. Somebody must report this back to head office as well because when the running sheets came in, it actually said, Lance Storm now has to dance for three or so minutes during his entrance. And by the time Vince and a man got involved, instead of Vince going like, wait, wait, wait, something's got miscommunicated here. He loved the whole thing. He changed Lance Storm's title track and made Lance dance during the hurdles

just so everybody could be happy that he was really going for that wiggle. Obviously Lance Storm actually hated this because he did not tie into the more serious wrestling world. He was trying to push forward. But I just think it's so funny. It's like when somebody else comes up with an idea and then you want to act like you came up with the idea. So you tell someone now, I don't like that idea. And six weeks later, you go, oh boy, do I have a good idea. So Lance Storm got completely mad off here. And listen, for a man who when it came to take me wrestling was basically the next coming of Bret Hart to be treated this way in WWE when it was just stupid. However, when you do know that story and you go and watch it, I don't want to be horrible. But it's absolutely hilarious. It kind of goes to show why back in 2003, some people were just never going to be allowed to get over public. Hi, this is Pablo Tore from Pablo Tore finds out. And today I want to talk to you about boost mobile because we spent a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places and so on. But those inefficiencies

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Bonus. With a Walmart Business Plus membership, you get free shipping, spend analytics and 2% rewards. Join the smart way to shop at business.warmart.com. Terms apply. Believe it is for a life. Given the recently, I talked about some of my favourite goofy wrestlers ever. Well, we all decided we should sit down and talk about some of my favourite goofy moments in Pro Wrestling 2. Now listen, how are we coming up tomorrow? Oh my gosh. How did I forget that one? I wanted to run a game bit. I wanted to talk about multiple companies and I wanted to talk about multiple time zones. So if the one you're expecting doesn't come up in this list, make sure you put it down there. Essentially. I love all goofy wrestling for life moments, but when I sat down to wrote this, here are the 10 that popped into my damn stupid brain. Now for 10, the Super Elite Vest the Dark Order from that dynamite in October 2021. I suppose you can just call this a Halloween match, hence why everybody isn't costume. But when the Super Elite come out in their Ghostbusters uniforms, it's so funny because

one, they're so damn proud of themselves and two later on in the match, when they use pro team packs, you have gypros. I'll comment to the ghost. Man, pro team packs, as if somebody has just used the gun. This is why J.R. is the greatest wrestling commentator of all time. I'm pretty sure he would lean towards more serious wrestling, but he knew that to sell something he would sell it. He was totally disgusted that he was wouldn't do this. It makes me laugh out loud every time. Kenny Omega and Adam Cole of Bucks as well are just jumping around like absolute idiots, and you all know the payoff here, you all know the best bit. Matt Jackson can fill the state puff much mellow man entering behind him when he whips off his hood, his mask, every calling. He is his hangman at a page. The young Bucks have an absolute meltdown, and then the cowboy, the future world champion starts to fight while wearing one of the most iconic costumes to do what I could think of you have ever seen. You'll remember what's in that movie when we were kids as well, and now you had hangman who was the baby face, essentially playing the heel from the original Ghostbusters movie. I loved everything about this, and at the time, which again was in late 2021, it made me realise thank goodness

AEW does exist. It's not like WWE doesn't do this kind of a thing, but AEW has always felt like a more PWG company to use those stupid terms, so they just pushed the boat out a little bit larger than maybe they would have done otherwise. I still go back and watch this, it still makes me chuckle, and it still makes me full warm and fuzzy in my tum tum. That's why I watch wrestling. I just will have a good time, put a ticket at the box number nine, most everything between Steve Austin and Kurt Angle. So this mostly went down in 2001, but there are other years as well, and you know all of these because they are famous. The way they tried to win over the effects of the Vince McMahon, the way they both take guitar, and of course the stupid cowboy hat, the Vince McMahon, her normal cowboy hat Steve Austin, her normal cowboy hat, Kurt Angle had the smallest cowboy hat you'd ever seen in your life, but he was so damn proud of it. And this is one of the reasons why Kurt Angle is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, not just because he was an absolute monster in the ring, but outside of it he totally understood we're here to entertain man, so if you want me to look at Jackass, tick that box. Given that everybody does talk about these moments though, I thought I would talk about specific one with Steve Austin, and it's when Vince McMahon is giving his big who Ross speech to team WWF

before they go and fight team WCW. I'm sure you've seen this online. Every single thing the Vince says, Steve Austin repeats. So Vince McMahon says, listen I'm counting on you, Steve will go counting on you, and the whole time he does this in the direction of the undertaker, because for whatever reason, even though we need deep, in what was meant to be quite a serious story, Stone Cold has decided I'm going to try and break the undertaker. Mark Calloway has talked about his podcast, he had to rub his bit, because he didn't like ruining his persona on national television, because he was about to crack up. If you have not seen this, you must go watch it today. I mean this is when Steve Austin was playing the weird paranoid Steve Austin, which was the best part about his heel turn, but it will just make you feel great about the world. It'll make you feel good in your Tootsie toes. Still to this day don't understand why he tried to do this, but that Steve Austin man is a laugh riot, as are all of these skits. Again, they're like what, 24 years old, and they still put a smile on my face. Go check them out. Number eight, the Outruners versus Orange Cassidy from Rampated June, 2024. So I wanted to get at least one modern day one

in there, otherwise you get too much stuck in the past, and I haven't talked about this before, you'll get mad at me, but I actually did do this. In my list of best matches from this year, I put this bout down, because it is comedy wrestling, it's goofy wrestling, and it's character wrestling, all wrapped up into one, and these three loons hit a home run. Now start off with Orange Cassidy laying on the floor as Turbo hits the rope before Terbs realize what he's doing. So he tags in truth who tries to hit these elbows, and he misses every single one. Then later on, they keep trying to chop Orange Cassidy, but they chop each other, then they try and drop another elbow, and they completely miss, and the whole time Orange Cassidy is doing his weird little kits and the skits that he would always do, but he does it in a way. It's like a cartoon, as I cut myself off, but it is a torn one handicap match, so they had sat down, they must have thought about this, they thought about this, they thought about this, how can we use Cassidy's offense to be sure that we continue to run into each other, and it doesn't actually feel like a handicap match. The Orange is funny, the Orange is brilliant, but I think it's a work of art. That's right, I said it. 1.2 Orange just hugs the referee as well, because he has no idea what is going on,

and this is something that would actually show to somebody else that didn't watch wrestling as to why I like it. Some people roll their eyes over, they're so stupid, that would never happen in real life, that's the entire point. And this didn't happen by accident like I say, that he must have thought about this right down to a minute detail, I think it's brilliant, if I had a star rating system, I would give it five stars. You of course, when I go and check this out and think I'm mad, but I do not care, I love all three of these guys, I wanted to get them in the list, and I will stand by it till my dying day. Number five musical chairs for Raw back in July 2004, and throwing that 2009 Bob Barker sketch too. This way is just dumb, that's supposed to be in goofy, but there are elements to it that really make me happy. One, we are playing musical chairs in order to get a title shot, which is absolutely obscene, but you also have Tyson Tomco, Chris Jericho, Rick Flair, Stacy Kebler, and Jerry Lawler, and Rick Flair absolutely still has this scene, because now only does he shove Stacy Kebler out the way, because he's so desperate not to be eliminated from this game, but when he starts

styling and profiling, he then does get ejected, he doesn't get a chair, and the nature boy sells this, as he's just been told you're fired, and you're never allowed to come back to wrestling again. If one of the best of all time in Rick Flair can sell something like this, we all can, say it with me goofy wrestling for life. Derricko is great too, because he whips the chair out from Tyson Tomco and smashes him with it to win the game, and he's just so happy, and that's why I didn't want to throw in the Bob Barker, this is your life as well. That is something you should go watch today if you haven't, because Bob Barker, Chris Jericho, fall out, and Bob Barker just cuts a promo on Chris Jericho's ass, and because Jericho understands the game, he sells it too, like this is death, so I suppose there is a theme here, doesn't matter how big a star you are, doesn't matter who you think you are in your own brain, if you get presented with something, that is quite kiddie meant to be tongue-in-cheek, just have fun with it, because when the performers are having fun, it comes out of the TV, and we're having fun too. Also, can you imagine if they did musical chairs on AEW, how the tribalistic community would melt down? So please, Triple H or Tony Khan, do it again, I beg you, I am ready. Number six, to most,

everything with our truth. And I couldn't just pick one because there's too many of them, but we'll start with what I think is the highlight of them all, which is the 2015 money in the bank match, or beforehand, when our truth comes out, he interrupts Kane, he interrupts Dolph Zickler, he interrupts Roman Reigns, he cuts a big ol' promo guy, I'm gonna climb that ladder and win, when corporate Kane just goes truth, you're not even in the match. Now it's the usual stuff you'd expect these days of Arche with going, oh my bad, but it's the delivering, it's how confused he look, and it's the sadness in his eyes, and the camera cuts back to the ring, and Dolph and Roman are absolutely cracking up too. I mean, this was essentially the birth of the goofy Arche with character, but there's a reason for it. Not everybody could have done this once again, let's say it again, it's masterful. Then of course, is everything he's done with Royal Rumbles over the years, like bringing a ladder into it, thinking it was the money in the bank match, and my personal favourite one when he did a hot dunk in the middle of the rumble. Now don't get me wrong, I think WWE made a huge mistake, we didn't push him one last time, as serious rum killings, but the Arche with character has brought me so much joy throughout the years, I'm gonna support

that man until the end of days, I think he's brilliant, and I think there's more depth to this than people give him credit for, you can't just be funny because you want to be funny, you have to be funny. I think that makes sense, I could go on and on about Arche with two, is the absolute go number five, most everything, with Kevin Owens. So he's just another guy wanted to get into this list because he too is what we so much joy over the years. Let's go back to that Elias Ezekiel angle he did, if anybody else was put in that position, it would have been awful, but K.O. decided I'm going to sell this, like it's the worst thing that's ever happened in my life, and even if you go back now and watch those promos where he's screaming in Ezekiel's face going, I know you're Elias, I didn't like you then, I hate you now, it's just brilliant man, it doesn't even go anywhere, that's what it kind of just finishes, but thank goodness they gave it to Kevin, otherwise it would have sucked. There's smaller things to this too when you can catch all on the internet, like when he's doing a house show against Roman Reigns, he has Roman in a chin lock, and he is yelling at some fans, being like, don't brew me, I own way more money than you, in fact let me tell you about my checkbook. Once again, you can't just say those things,

you have to have a certain delivery, and Owens nails it every time. I could also basically talk about everything that he and Chris Jericho did in 2016, that partnership was perfect, and some of the ways they rinse down the backstage announcers, I still watch them today, and I think it about it, I probably should put the iconics in here, for similar reasons, but just typing Kevin Owens funny moments, and then come and tell me, you didn't think this was the most entertaining thing you'd ever see in your life, even the promos, he was cutting on Cody Rhodes and Randy on, from his car were funny, and that was in the middle of a serious angle because he understands when to put out there, and went to take it away again. I know I've said this so many times it's boring, but he is my modern day goat, I had to think he's number three on my all-time list, get mad at me in the comments, number four, San Tina Morella's names, and his celebrations. So there's another guy that I did mention in my goofy lessons for life lists, so I apologise that I am teaming up a little bit, but you know all the funniness with the names, in fact I went through a huge list on that video, so you can just go and watch it, but what else I thought I could throw in here, was the dumb celebration he did when he won. That's stupid trumpet, sometimes he would do it mid-match two,

and the way he sold the stunner. I mean that whole angle with Stone Cold Steve Austin is funny, because again Steve got it too, but San Tina takes that stunner and he flies backward with a salute hand, and that's why it's the best stunner still ever. Some people say Austin Theory, some people say the rock, some people say Scott Hall, these are all very worthy options, but nobody has ever done it better than San Tina, and it comes to goofy wrestling, he's a poster boy, he's the dream, you are waking up right now and you want to be a comedy character in wrestling, which is perfectly fine by the way, a little died by that rule, watch San Tina, copy him, and you will make it to the damn top, number three Steve Austin, a Vince McMahon in the hospital. So of course this one was knee deep in the attitude here, I didn't want to include it because it's way too famous. I kind of felt like it tied into a bigger debate that he's going on in 2025, so it's like David Simon, let's stoke some bald fires, because yes like I say wrestling arguably has never been more successful than it was when Steve Austin was running wild, and here Vince McMahon's in the hospital after being beaten up, he has Mick Foley there doing magic tricks and clownery in front of him, when Austin dresses up as a nurse or a doctor whichever one you want to call,

hits Vince McMahon with a bed pen, which makes the most comical noise you've ever heard, and then just throws him around his local medical facility room, like this is perfectly fine. Some of the quips of Steve is making too our laugh out loud funny, and Vince McMahon sells this like he's somewhat of a puppet, like he has no offense, he's basically crying, and he's left for dead, this was meant to be a serious part of the Vince McMahon Steve Austin angle, but actually it is laugh out loud funny, which I also think was the intent. We just kind of felt like we need to get one of these in here that is just so iconic, especially because I imagine we do have some younger viewers watching, you can go and check it out today, again just type in Steve Austin Vince McMahon hospital, probably 1998 or 1999 into your YouTube device, and imagine once again that somebody did this today, I want to make it clear, other times the adridira tried this and it was absolutely terrible, and as aged like bad cheese, but this one, not so, in fact in many ways it kind of encapsulates the feud, it's pretty damn funny. Number two, everything with the dark order. So of course this is what happened after Brody Lee joined, and it's just the best transformation,

because at first they act like it is going to be all spooky, wookieing terrifying, and then Brody Lee asking who the flub is Griff Garrison, and then there's Sue, wonderful, wonderful Sue. When Sue threw the papers it may have been the greatest moment in wrestling history, and when the dark order treats Sue with respect and Brody Lee shouts, you bow down to Sue, and then he makes them pick up the papers. Now this makes sense, it's all out of context, you just need to go and type in dark order best bits on YouTube and watch it, and this is why Brody Lee was an absolute hero, and it would have been a tragedy anyway, but it's a double tragedy, because he took this character, and he was basically manipulating it in real time. This really was the peak as far as I'm concerned, on the dark order, in terms of their entertainment, you would watch the things they would do every single week, they weren't just funny har-har because of wrestling, they were funny overall, and they made sure to tie into proper wrestling storylines too. I miss all of this, absolute genius, absolutely brilliant. I double watch them just to make sure, and yes, as soon as Sue gets involved, please, just do me a favor,

and check this out today, and you could disagree with me down there. Hello comments that are getting mad. That Brody Lee, who's just one of a kind. Number one, the WrestleMania Jackass match. So I've been thinking about this Sami Zayn versus the Jackass boys from WrestleMania for a long old time, and all of a sudden this landed on my desk, and I thought you know what, this is the perfect moment for me to take that thing and throw it up the windman, and remind you that Sami Zayn may be one of the smartest professional wrestlers ever, because who else could take someone like Johnny Knoxville on the rest of his boys, and somehow turn it into a wrestling match that is super entertaining to watch, super funny, and actually ends with Sami Zayn getting hit. Let's not forget about how much training they did, they're not going to be at any level because wrestling takes so damn long because you are experienced, but this Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens has talked about this too, he did figure it out, he basically wrote a thesis about how this was going to work, just go watch it for the time and go watch it for the comedy, and just the little things he throws out there that are basically Easter eggs, I think it's a work of art, I think it's a genius thing to do, and it probably explains why he's so good at the other side of wrestling as well, because

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