50 Funniest Wrestling Moments Of 2023

15. The Biggest Sell-Out Of All Time

Ric Flair was signed by AEW and it was gross because the question "Has enough time passed since that Dark Side Of The Ring episode for these people to stop complaining?" was almost certainly asked.

Flair is a disgraced decomposing skull on top of a bag of trash, but he's also very desperate for fame and relevancy, which creates scope for schadenfreude-based comedy. When hyping his AEW deal and energy drink on a Wrestling Observer podcast, he was asked by the host what separates it from other drinks on the market.

Scrambling in his fried brain for something he was told to say, with no further context, he said "mushroom infused".

The man has absolutely no clue: he just put his name on the thing like a slightly more bleak Krusty the Clown.

14. Don Callis Conjures Quite The Mental Image

Don Callis Konosuke Takeshita
AEW

The Don Callis and Konosuke Takeshita act didn't take on TV, since Takeshita more often than not felt like Don's bodyguard, carrying out his orders with little to no interest in despising Kenny Omega. Sadly, Take could have been anyone.

Still, Callis talked a good game on Talk Is Jericho, hilariously referring to Konosuke as "the type of guy that walks into a room and his d***'s already been there two minutes".

The implication is that Take has to lob it around like a lasso just to get by. Marvellous!

13. Lance Storm Does A Funny!

In response to that quote, Lance Storm - less a comedian, more of an incredibly logic-based thinker with a face as unshakeable as a bridge - actually did a funny. Storm slaughtered him with that.

Callis was dead, but Lance didn't actually kill him. That is a figure of speech. If Callis actually had died, Lance would have written one of his trademark obituaries.

"I knew Don. He was not what you would describe as "good" person. Perhaps it was right that he died. Not for me to say."

12. Making A Typo Is Annoying...But...

The former Ariel of WWECW fame asked the above question on Twitter, and there's just something very funny about the lateness of the correction. Yes, making a typo on a social media post is far more irritating than it has any right to be, particularly when you know that nobody else gives a damn, but 14 hours?!

That's almost as long as a Collision main event. Probably time to get over it.

11. Billy Corgan's Infinite Sadness

Billy Corgan NWA
NWA

This was debunked by some, sadly, but it's too funny not to include here: in October, the NWA booked a segment in which Father James Mitchell and his stable pretended to do coke, and this might have scuppered Billy Corgan's attempts to get the worst promotion in the US an actual shoot television deal with the CW.

This man wrote Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness! How is he so stupid?!

This was the wrestling equivalent of the most unfit person alive somehow winning a race against Usain Bolt, but losing at the last second as a result of soiling their pants.

So Tyrus then.

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