10 Wrestlers Who Didn't Care About Kayfabe
1. Minoru Suzuki
The best thing about the Minoru Suzuki Vs. Mecha Mummy match is that it exists, and its existence is the perfect counter argument to the knackers who claim that comedy wrestling is the preserve of those without the talent - nor the toughness - to have made it in pro wrestling when it was a real man's world.
Minoru Suzuki would tear every '80s territorial babyface who very theatrically played blind with the crimson mask limb from limb. He is also an incredible wrestler and performer, an elite talent at 51, who is so legitimate and expressive that he can make a 10 minute heel hook entertaining. And yet, he worked a comedy match with a robot mummy because it was never going to do a damn thing to his aura. He will absolutely kill you, bastard. The other best thing about Minoru Suzuki Vs. Mecha Mummy is that Suzuki doesn't betray his character nor patronise the form.
It's a very elegant joke; he ambles from end of the ring to the other, playing along, before ensnaring Mecha Mummy into a submission hold. Mummy is helpless - he is a chancer in a stupid outfit - but the outfit while stupid is very well thought-out, and he is able to temporarily blind Suzuki with the dust he coated it with. Suzuki then short-circuits the Mummy with a bottle of water, because he is also a machine, again, in what is a marvellous, inexplicable twist.
Only fractionally less inexplicable character development than the EC3 Vs. Dean Ambrose feud.