10 Funniest Wrestling Moments Of 2018
Funny ha-ha, not funny "Drake Maverick pisses himself for the amusement of demented old man".
WWE was all about comedy in 2018. Nominally.
The former RAW Tag Team Champions, the B-Team, were a comedy act who stumbled unwittingly into several victories. Braun Strowman and Nicholas were a comedy act because one of them was a massive man, and the other was a small child. Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy were a comedy act because they were both geet weird. The Revival were a comedy act because they tried to do this adorable old-timey thing called really good southern-style tag team wrestling.
Silly buggers.
The Miz Vs. Daniel Bryan was a deeply personal blood feud...to literally every f*cker else; to WWE, it hinged on synergistic crossover content streams and seven second dance breaks and fluke roll-ups. Bryan literally laughed in the face of an optimistic suggestion putting forward the big, epic Bryan Vs. Miz blowoff in New Jersey. He laughed out loud at the very notion of WWE telling a long-term story with an actual ending, and he was right. Vince McMahon and WWE's creative staff are fickle! Fickle! Fickle! They are also f*cking stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
Their version of comedy is as bad as their version of long-term storytelling, but cruel, wonderful fate intervened to comprise most of this list.
But first, something that was actually designed to be funny...
10. Joey Ryan's Amazing ALL IN Cameo
An unforgettable moment, at ALL IN, the resurrected Joey Ryan - that pun being incidental to the actual joke - avenged his murder at the hands of Hangman Page.
This cameo followed Page's blistering, violent and hugely entertaining win over Joey Janela in addition to following a preposterously entertaining Being The Elite storyline that saw Page, furious at this "penis pretender", murder him - only for his guilt to manifest as a talking, tormenting pair of cowboy boots. An audacious multimedia cross-promotion extravaganza both intentionally dumb and very, very clever, this was the Elite pulling off incredibly good wrestling storytelling. Their affectionate piss-take was so much better and more gripping than most of the serious stories spun by other companies. A storyline in which a heel murdered a guy under the mistaken belief that said guy's penis was fake was significantly less laughable, too.
It all came to a head (sorry) at ALL IN, at which Ryan, flanked by a procession of penis druids, rose from the dead. It couldn't have looked more ridiculous, and yet, it was essentially the Undertaker's powerful big league shtick presented with a negative colour image effect.
This literally illustrated that all wrestling storytelling is inherently ludicrous - some are just considerably better at it than others.